The Institute For Internal Controls

Advisory Board

Governance for The Institute for Internal Controls is provided by the Advisory Board. The Advisory Board is headed by the Chairman. Its members are appointed and serve on a voluntary basis. All members of the Advisory Board must hold the CICA or CCS designation and be a member in good standing.

Dr. Frank Nasuti, Ph.D., CPA, CICA, CFE is Chariman and founder of The Institute for Internal Controls. He has over 30 years of experience in internal controls. His past positions and experience include 10 years in internal controls consulting and forensic accounting, 10 years in internal audit position and Big 4 Public Accounting, and 10 years in law enforcement. He has extensive research experience and has taught in the doctorate and masters programs at Nova Southeastern University, Widener University, Rutgers University, and Temple University.

Professor Thomas Brinker, CPA, CICA, CFE, is a professor of accounting at Arcadia University.

John Fraser, Esq., CCS, is an attorney at law in private practice. Formerly, he was a Senior Managing Director at Kroll Associates and headed the Washington, DC practice, where he also specialized in business controls reviews and investigations.

Donald Baker, DBA, CICA, CISA, CFE, is an accounting instructor at Nova Southeastern University and a former VP of Audit for a major Florida Bank. He is also founder of Baker Associates, a forensic accounting firm located in Boca Raton, Florida.

John Verna, CPA, CICA, CFE, is a MBA graduate of Cornell's Johnson School of Business and was one of the founders of Citigate Global Intelligence. He is also a former Managing Director of the Business Controls Group at Kroll Associates and was a Senior Manager at Coopers & Lybrand (PWC). He has extensive experience in the areas of internal controls and a pioneer in developing new techniques for the audit and review of business and internals controls.