Mark is a principal with Baker Tilly who joined our firm in 2007.
Mark’s background includes his current role serving in the risk advisory practice, as well as years spent in the external audit practice. His experiences focus primarily within the financial services industry, but also include experience in the manufacturing, distribution and retail industries. Mark has extensive experience with System and Organization Controls (SOC) reporting, helping lead the Baker Tilly SOC practice. In addition, Mark has experience with Sarbanes Oxley compliance (SOX) for public companies, both with external audit reporting and as an outsourced consultant. Mark also performs both operational and information technology (IT) risk assessments, internal audits and various consulting projects.
- Leads SOC 1/2 readiness and attest engagements for multiple financial services and technology start-up organizations
- Leads various IT risk assessment and audit projects for financial institutions, insurance companies and other financial services organizations
- Performs consulting services to plan, develop, and execute, and therefore improve, internal control procedures, along with performing internal audits in these areas
- Performs audit and advisory projects related to SOX, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA) and internal control over financial statements.
- Assists organizations, primarily in financial services, implement SOX framework for newly public registrants
- Delivers frequent webinars and conference sessions on topics including SOC, cybersecurity, third-party risk management and business continuity/resiliency
- Leads the Business Continuity Management (BCM) practice and has executed implementation of and internal audits of Business Continuity Plans for various organizations
- Assists with services related to a large national mortgage servicing settlement
- Plans and executes cross-functional audit, review, and agreed-upon procedures engagements for public and privately held companies with more than $1 billion in assets
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
- The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) – Milwaukee IIA Chapter Board of Governors
- Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
- Financial Managers Society (FMS)
- Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI)
- Frequent speaker at IIA, ISACA, FMS chapter and national events
