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.
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CPA Canada applauds federal government COVID-19 fiscal response March 18, 2020 The federal government’s actions and fiscal support to address the widespread and devastating economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic are welcomed by Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada).
Practitioner’s pulse: Special COVID-19 edition On-Demand Event Listen to this special edition Practitioner’s Pulse webinar where we answer some frequently asked questions around practice management issues and some key financial reporting and auditing implications of COVID-19.