Board of Directors
Tracie Paulin, CIA, CFE, Vice President. Tracie is a VP, Investigative Services Manager in the Mortgage and Loan Investigations Division for Bank of America and previously was the Central Investigations Manager for New Century Mortgage Corporation, located in Irvine, CA. She is also an active member of the Institute of Internal Auditors. She has over thirty years experience in operations, auditing, and investigations in the financial industry, specializing in employee embezzlement and mortgage fraud investigations.
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Mary Kremzar, CPA, CFE, Secretary. Mary is the Tax Director at Biolase Technology, Inc. located in Irvine, CA. She is also a member of the Tax Executive Institute. She has over thirty years of accounting experience in operations, auditing and finance for both publicly held companies as well as small business operations.
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Ernest C. Cooper, JD, CPA, CFF, CFE, Chapter Training Director. Ernie is the President of Cooper Forensic and Investigative Group (formerly Ernest C. Cooper & Associates) which provides forensic accounting, fraud examinations, investigations, and training to law firms, commercial businesses, government agencies, law enforcement and individuals. The firm also handles international investigations and training in Latin America. Ernie has over thirty years professional experience. He is a former Director of the Los Angeles Forensic Investigative Practice of KPMG. Ernie is also a retired FBI Special Agent where he had extensive White Collar Crime experience and also held executive positions with the FBI. Ernie is also published, a frequent speaker and is involved with mentoring programs for college accounting students.
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Bob Oduguwa,
Advisory Board Member. Bob was elected Chapter President 2002 - 2004 and Treasurer 1999 - 2002
He served as a Fraud Audit Consultant for: Vicenti, Lloyd, Stutzman, LLP (A Glendora based CPA firm) He has consulted with Business Entities, on Fraud Risk Management and Controls.
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Chris M. Wright, CPP,
Treasurer from Advisory Board member.
Experience
- Over 35 years with the investigative field
- Senior District Manager for several large investigative agencies
- Proprietor of own business which specializes in background investigations
- Conducts seminars and workshops related to prevention of workplace violence, use of investigators and/or technology as they relate to business activities
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Guillermo Alvarez, CPA, CFE, Advisory Board Member. Guillermo is responsible for directing all audit processes as Manager, Audit for Mazda North American Operations (U.S., Canada and Mexico) with over 25 years of Audit and Management experience in the automotive and financial services industry. Guillermo is involved with BIOLA's MBA mentoring program - Crowell School of Business as well as is President of Non-profit organization.
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Leland Weinberg, CIA, CISA, CFE, Advisory Board Member. Past President of the Chapter 2004 – 2007. Leland is Manager of Corporate Audits for Mazda North American Operations with over 25 years of Audit and Management experience in the automotive and financial services industry. Former VP and Director of Internal Audit, Security and Fraud Investigations at Union Federal Bank. Past L.A. IIA College Relations Committee Chairman. Served as Orange County IIA College Relations Committee speaker at several Southern California universities. Guest speaker on auditing joint ventures in the Soviet Union and Belgium as part of the Citizens Ambassador Program of People to People International Electronic Data Processing, Auditing, Quality Assurance, and Data Security Delegation in 1990. Active member of IIA and ISACA.
