About The Presenter:
Dr. Rainer Lenz
Dr. Rainer Lenz was among the
TOP 10 Internal Audit Thought Leaders of the Decade and of
2020 (nominated by the past President and CEO of the global
IIA, Richard Chambers). He is a seasoned financial and audit
executive with over 25 years of international experience in
global organizations. He has held CFO-type of roles for most
of his professional career. Since 2007, Rainer has been
working as Chief Audit Executive, first at Actavis (now Teva
Pharmaceuticals) in the pharmaceutical industry, then at
Villeroy & Boch in the lifestyle industry, and since
2018 at SAF-HOLLAND in the commercial vehicle industry.
Rainer has a PhD in Economics
and Management Science from the Louvain School of Management
in Belgium. He has published a series of articles about
internal auditing in peer-reviewed journals.
He has earned several awards
for his thought leadership, including the Larry Sawyer
Research Foundation Project of the Year Award (2012), the
national Award from the German chapter of the IIA (DIIR
Förderpreis, 2013), and Audit Innovation Awards from the
Audit Research Center in Germany (2013 and 2017).
Rainer is a Certified
International Investment Analyst (CIIA) and a Certified
Internal Audit Leader (CIA, QIAL). He has presented at
several internal audit conferences, including ECIIA 2017 in
Basel and 2019 in Luxemburg, at the Annual Conference of the
European Commission’s Internal Audit Service in Brussels
(2019) and most lately at the annual conference of the IIA
Greece in 2020 via video.
Dominik Foerschler
After holding various
management positions and working as executive assistant to
the President of the University of Frankfurt am Main,
Germany, Dominik now heads the Audit Research Center at ARC
Institute as Managing Director. As Chairman of the Digital
Transformation Board, he is also responsible for the
development of new learning methods such as serious business games.
In over 20 years of
professional experience at Deutsche Bank, Canadian Imperial
Bank CIBC, Dresdner Bank and BMW in responsible management
positions within Internal Audit and other business units,
with international assignments in Toronto, Chicago, New
York, Madrid and London, Dominik is today the author of
numerous expert books and articles in the field of Internal
Audit, GRC and human resources development in renowned
professional journals as well as the editor of the book
series “Internal Audit Strategy”.
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