Compliance Expert

In this compelling interview, Sonia Luna interviews the President of QuickFee, Kyle Redding.

Kyle is a CPA & President of QuickFee, Inc. He started his career with EY, working in both the US and Australia, and transitioned into the early stages of QuickFee Australia, where he grew the business from 50 to 700 firms, including 70% of the Top 100 Accounting firms in Australia and the Big 4.

Kyle moved back home to California to establish QuickFee USA and quickly gained notoriety by being published in Accounting Today, Accounting Web & CPA Practice Advisors. QuickFee was recently recognized by Accounting Today as one of the “2017 Top New Products” for their unique payment portal that offers clients of professional firms a “fee financing option” directly alongside ACH payment & Credit Card payment.

In this compelling interview, Sonia Luna interviews Darren Marble on crowdfunding mistakes and best practices.

Darren Marble is the CEO of CrowdfundX, a pioneering financial marketing firm serving corporations and entrepreneurs across a wide mix of industries and geographies. The company helps clients to effectively architect and execute strategic equity and rewards-based crowdfunding campaigns that build brand equity and drive growth.  

Notably, under Darren’s leadership, CrowdfundX designed, produced and marketed the Reg A+ equity crowdfunding campaign for Elio Motors, which raised just under $17 million from 6,200+ investors. Elio subsequently listed on the OTC Markets OTCQX under the symbol "ELIO," making it the first company in the United States to have completed a Reg A+ equity crowdfunding offer and list shares on a public exchange. At present, CrowdfundX is currently managing more than a dozen Reg A+ equity crowdfunding campaigns.

Darren was recently elected to the Board of Directors with the Crowdfunding Professional Association and is a Co-Founder of the Crowd Invest Summit. A compelling public speaker, he has presented to such organizations as Stanford, the NextGen Crowdfunding Conference, the CfPA Crowdfunding Summit, the Silicon Valley Crowdfunding Conference, FundIt, Growth Capital Expo, the MicroCap CEO Investor Conference, USC, UC Irvine, CSUN and the ESGCI Business School in Paris. His insights have been featured in Forbes, the Los Angeles Business Journal, Bankless Times, PC Magazine and others.

In this breakthrough interview, you will gain significant insight on what to consider and measure when reviewing organizations social media marketing efforts. For years now, the auditing profession has been trying to understand the impact and risk of Social Media. More importantly what costs it could have when good money is being spent on bad social media marketing plans!

Today, our listeners, will walk away knowing how and why influencer marketing works and how auditors can find the right audit trail! Go “way, way” back in the day, over 22 years in digital marketing, and explore the changes in the last two decades. Understand what are third party reports that compliance experts can rely on the data they’ve been given. Discover why content marketing appears to be growing so fast. Learn who's doing content marketing right (and why)! 

Sonia Luna, CEO of Aviva Spectrum, a financial transformation and compliance consulting firm headquartered in sunny, Los Angeles, California. She is also a speaker and writer on topics like Financial Close Transformation, Internal audit and accounting related topics.

Our guest today is Bill Carmody. Bill is the CEO of Trepoint. Bill is the founder of Trepoint, named one of INC 5000’s Fastest Growing Companies for two consecutive years. In 20+ trailblazing years in digital marketing, he built some of the first commercial websites, and was also among the first to create mobile apps for enterprise brands. Bill’s main specialty is big data marketing for advanced ROI in social and mobile. He authored the book on Online Promotions, and is a celebrated marketing columnist for INC.

In this in-depth interview Sonia Luna interviews Brenda Morris, on ways to modernize the accounting department.

Brenda is retail financial consultant, working with teams to optimize their environments and support growth.  She was most recently with Hot Topic/Torrid, an exciting leader in gift & fashion apparel retail, as a strategic partner to leadership to grow and develop the company and to spin out the Torrid brand. Prior to that Brenda was CFO for 5.11 Tactical, an international apparel and gear company, Love Culture Inc., a young women's retailer, which doubled in size during her time with them. Brenda was with Icicle Seafoods from 2009 to 2011 as CFO. Brenda was previously with Maveron start-up iFLOOR Inc., a hard surface retailing concept. She was CFO of Zumiez Inc, a specialty teen retailer. At Zumiez, she completed an IPO, 2 follow on offerings, and an acquisition of one 20 store chain. Prior to Zumiez, Brenda was at K2 Corporation as CFO. At K2, she directed all financial and ops functions. Prior to joining K2, Brenda spent 5 years as the Controller of UNIONBAY. Morris also had roles at Bowers Machine, FlowMole (aka UTILX, where she completed an IPO and two follow-ons).  Brenda is the Past-Chair of Washington Business Week, a Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) Regent and Vice-Chair, past Chair Exec. Advisory Board for PLU’s School of Business; and is a guest speaker and active member of AICPA. She obtained her Undergraduate Degree in Business, Accounting from PLU, and her MBA from Seattle University focused on Organizational Behavior and Operations. She holds her CGMA, CPA and CMA. Brenda is an Advisor for Proformative.com, an online resource and professional network for senior finance, accounting and related professionals.

Sonia Luna, CEO of Aviva Spectrum, interviews, David Chavez, Chief Audit Executive at DreamWorks Animation responsible for creating the strategy, vision and execution of the risk management and internal audit operations located here in sunny, Los Angeles, California.

David also serves as an Advisory Board Member of the North Carolina State University ERM project and he served as a Governor of the Board for the Institute of Internal Auditors for a local chapter in Texas. David was nominated in 2012 as a candidate for the PCAOB Advisory Board. We’ll be discussing what are the current issues and best practices regarding Risk Management, data analytics and the best use of GRC technology in the internal audit department and across an enterprise.

Prior to joining DreamWorks Animation, David was a National Leader of Deloitte’s GRC Technology practice where he managed multiple GRC related engagements for Fortune 100 companies. Before that David was the Head of the ERM & GRC office for Dell Computers. He is the recipient of 2 MVP awards from the GRC institute for his contribution to the GRC market.

In this insightful new episode, Sonia Luna CEO of Aviva Spectrum interviews Erin Selleck, Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Enterprise Risk Committee at Broadway Financial Corp, and it’s subsidiary Broadway Federal Bank.

Discover the the core elements of Enterprise Risk Management and the expectations and best practices for the board’s role in successful governance and oversight of ERM.

Learn effective techniques when handling out-of-the-ordinary challenges, as well as considersations before key decision making on a board.

Prior to joining the board at Broadway Financial Corp., Erin Selleck served as Senior Executive Vice President, Treasurer, and Executive Committee member at MUFG Union Bank, a top-25 U. S. bank and a key subsidiary of Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s largest financial organizations. Her many accomplishments at Union Bank include successfully guiding the bank through the most significant financial crisis of the modern era, presiding over meaningful growth in the bank’s balance sheet, and expertly navigating an increasingly challenging economic and regulatory environment in the banking industry. She is the recipient of a number of professional honors, including being named a “Woman to Watch” by American Banker Magazine in 2012.

In this engaging episode with Alan Phillips, Vice President of Internal Audit at The Cheesecake Factory, he and Sonia Luna CEO of Aviva Spectrum will discuss ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­some of the changes in the internal audit field and best practices for structuring this important department.

Learn some of the changes that have occurred and gain insights into upcoming trends from a 40-year veteran in the financial services and hospitality fields.

Prior to joining The Cheesecake Factory, Alan served as a Partner at Ernst and Young for 10 years where he started the firm’s internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing practice in the Southwest.  There, he had the pleasure of serving numerous Global 1000 companies. Alan has worked in Internal Audit field for over 30 years. Alan holds a B.S. in Accounting from the San Diego State and is a CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner and is a speaker for the IIA on Risk Management and Sox.

In this compelling interview with Leena Roselli, Senior Manager of Research for FEI (Financial Executives International), Sonia Luna, CEO and Founder of Aviva Spectrum and Leena will be discussing the four year audit fee trends. We'll delve into how compliance and regulatory issues have impacted how much organizations are spending on audit fees and what they can do to minimize their costs.

Listen as Sonia Luna, CEO and Founder of Aviva Spectrum interviews, Global Director of Internal Audit at Quiksilver, Nicole Ungaro about auditing 3rd party providers.  We will cover best practices and risks.

Quiksilver is that look and feel of “California surfer.” It’s truly a global California based brand. Nicole has 16 years experience in auditing, starting her career in external audit at KPMG.  She then transitioned to internal audit, creating an internal audit department at Universal Electronics and Wet Seal.  Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cal State Long Beach.   Nicole is also involved with the Institute of Internal Auditors, Orange County chapter as the Treasurer, since August 2014.

Sonia Luna interviews Chief Ethics Officer at Health Net, Bruce Anderson, who has over 20 years of experience in compliance and healthcare. 

As many of you know, Health Net is one of the largest health care providers in the US and headquartered in California. Bruce directs Medicare, corporate compliance and ethics programs. He oversees initiatives related to compliance with federal laws, corporate compliance daily operations, and compliance training and education.  Bruce holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania and several certifications in the healthcare field including HIPAA Privacy.  Bruce is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP).