Current Board Members
President - Eve Switka
Eve was elected President of the Perth Chapter in 2018.
Eve
is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Chartered Certified Accountant and has over
10 years accounting experience including roles in management accounting,
restructuring and insolvency and forensic accounting. Eve has worked in
Australia and offshore United Kingdom. Her expertise is in forensic
accounting, investigations, insolvency and restructuring, management accounts
reviews, internal reporting and budgets. She has been involved in independent
business reviews, corporate restructuring, fraud and corruption investigations
and complex commercial disputes across a broad range of sectors including
mining and resource companies, manufacturing and retail, public sector,
financial services, construction, and local government.
She is currently employed as a manager at Avior Consulting, having previously spent 5 years at Grant Thornton in Perth and Channel Islands in restructuring and forensic accounting. Prior to that Eve was a management accountant for a large retail and manufacturing group Sandpiper CI and a construction company Style Group in the Channel Islands.
Professional qualifications include: Certified Fraud Examiner; Chartered Certified Accountant; Certified Accounting Technician; International Association of Bookkeepers; and Degree in Management and Marketing
Professional memberships include: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE); Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA); and Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA).
Eve's areas of expertise includes: internal accounts reviews; internal processes reviews and streamlining; restructuring and insolvency; contract compliance reviews and quantification for litigation; fraud investigations; loss quantification; fraud & corruption control planning; and fraud and corruption risk assessments
Sector experience includes: retail, wholesale and distribution; financial services; construction; mining and resources; ports & transport; property and real estate; government & Public Sector Agencies
- Local Governments
Vice President - Ben Arnold
Ben is an experienced risk and governance professional with international experience in the Resources Industry. Ben’s key areas of capability include control design and review, corporate governance, risk management, capital project/ EPCM internal audit & advisory services, anti corruption, fraud investigation and process improvement.
Ben is currently a Director at A&P Advisory, following his role as Principal Risk for BHP Billiton Iron Ore. A key area of focus for Ben has been within the Resources Sector, particularly Mining and Energy and Chemicals, where he has performed and led operational and financial improvement reviews on various capital projects such as Gorgon LNG, Tangguh LNG and Shell’s GTL facility.
Ben has provided technical support to management in analysing processes and providing solutions, facilitating training and client workshops, project management and reporting. In addition, he has strong management, leadership and analytical, delivery and technical skills. During his career, Ben has demonstrated a proven ability to:
- Establish, develop and maintain effective working relationships with both operational and senior stakeholders
- Analyse, evaluate and resolve complex process and control problems
- Recommend and implement more efficient methods, systems and reporting formats.
- Plan, execute, manage and report on a diverse portfolio of projects.
Ben is a qualified Fellow of the Governance Institute (FGIA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certifed Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). This followed the completion of Bachelor of Commerce (BComm).
Ben is currently the Vice President of the ACFE Chapter (Western Australia), West Australia Council Member for the Institute of Internal Auditors Australia and a Non Executive - Audit and Risk Committee Member for Amnesty International (Australia). Ben previously served as Secretary on the Management Committee for the Consumer Credit Legal Society and Treasurer of Museums Australia (WA).
Specialties: Internal Audit, External Audit, Financial Analysis, Internal Controls, EPCM Operations, Capital Projects, Governance,FCPA, Risk Management
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-arnold-25165523/
Secretary and Treasurer - Helen Lo Presti
Helen is an accountant at Aspen Corporate Pty Ltd. Her forensic accounting portfolio includes insider trading analysis, extensive data analytics of both financial data and investigative data (such as telephone call interrogation), fraud investigation, Ponzi scheme investigations, and production of witness statements and affidavits producing expert reports.
- Federal government assignment on a fraud detection matter and production of an expert witness statements.
- Family law matters including valuations and asset tracing
- Solvency review of large WA mining entity.
- Conducted
internal fraud detection for large Pty Ltd entity.
- Independent Business Reviews and Investigative Accountants Reports.
- Data analytics using various different software suites, such as i2 Analyst Notebook, IDEA, Microsoft Access, and high level excel work.
Board Member - Troy Williams FGIA, FCIS
Troy is a Corporate Governance professional consulting to boards and senior management in Asia, Canada and Australia. His role gives focus to the proactive ethical conduct of business, governance, risk management and compliance oversight.
Additionally, he provides: Management Consulting / Chief Financial Officer / Corporate Accounting / Investigative Accounting support to further assist boards and senior management with strategic decision making. In that regard he has a proven track record in delivering financial results and value adding utilizing critical interpersonal skills he has developed over 30 years through dealings with stakeholders across many industries.
He concurrently serves as:
- Chair, Western Australia State Council at Governance Institute of Australia
- Board Member, Western Australia Chapter at Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
- Member, National Communications Committee at Governance Institute of Australia
- Mentor, UniSA Business Career Mentor Program at University of South Australia
Troy can be contacted on:
✉: [email protected]
✆: +61 (0) 417 911 516
https://www.linkedin.com/in/troymeagherwilliams/
Board
Member – Richard Boddington
Richard
is currently Director of Digital Forensics Institute and Principal of Forensics
Australia. He has a background in police and intelligence investigations
and holds a BSc (Hons 1st Class) in Communications and Information Technology
from Edith Cowan University. From his research and consultancy endeavours he
has developed knowledge in digital forensics that enable him to recover,
preserve, analyse and validate digital evidence found on a variety of computer
devices.
Richard has more recently undertaken forensic examinations in support of large fraud investigations of Australian businesses victims of false email invoicing and is putting together preventative measures to assist businesses minimise this odious threat they face through security contingency planning and forensic readiness incentives.
In 2005, Richard commenced lecturing at the School of Information Technology, Murdoch University where he taught and researched information security and digital forensics. He designed and coordinated under-graduate and postgraduate units that allowed students to complete virtual analyses of simulated computer crimes. This practical training and theoretical education better prepared students to become IT security professionals in government and corporations. It also readied them to deal more effectively with computer-related crime incidents and preserve fragile evidence for legal proceedings. Richard also taught post-graduate Digital Forensics at the University of Western Australia in 2014.
Richard continues to provide Digital Forensics and eDiscovery services for a broad range of clients, and is currently presently designing and providing accredited forensic training units in these areas as well as eDiscovery and specialist Multi-Media Forensics.
Richard can be contacted on:
+61 (0)417 920 881
Board Member - Elissa Mansell
Elissa is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Chartered Accountant with over 8 years forensic accounting experience. Her expertise in forensic accounting includes fraud and misconduct investigations, contract compliance reviews and corruption/ bribery management. She has a background in policing and commercial crime investigations and is a Senior Manager at McGrathNicol in Perth.
Elissa’s qualifications include:
- Certified Fraud Examiner;
- Chartered Accountant; and
- Post Graduate Certificate of Commercial Crime.
Elissa can be contacted at [email protected]