Gary S. Baker, BBA, CPA, CA, CGEIT

Gary is a director at Libro Financial Group, one of Ontario’s largest Credit Unions, and an audit committee member at the Grand River Hospital. Gary is an independent consultant, with more than 25 years’ experience providing information technology (IT) governance, risk management and internal controls consulting services and advice. He was formerly the Canadian IT governance service offering leader for a multinational professional services firm.

Gary is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration, and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA). He is certified in the governance of enterprise information technology, and holds foundation level certificates in ITIL and COBIT 4.1.

Gary is a lecturer in the University of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance and currently serves on Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada)’s Information Management and Technology Advisory Committee. Gary was a participant in the ISACA COBIT 5 development workshops and has previously served on ISACA’s COBIT Steering Committee, the ISACA COBIT Enterprise Certification Task Force and the CICA\AICPA Trust Services Task Force.