Meeting/Event Information

Save the date for our May monthly meeting, Seven Wonders of Anti-Fraud Tests.

Join us in welcoming Vincent Waldon, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal.  We will host this meeting virtually only via Zoom, and one CPE credit will be awarded to all participants.

Vincent Walden is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Disputes and Investigations in New York. He specializes in forensic data analytics, continuous controls monitoring, information governance and legal discovery services. His primary area of concentration is in providing leading technology perspectives on both proactive compliance programs and reactive investigations.

With more than 25 years of investigative and legal technology experience, Mr. Walden has extensive experience deploying anti-fraud, compliance, anti-bribery and corruption compliance monitoring, sanctions and trade compliance monitoring, and anti-trust compliance monitoring. He also has deep insights in using leading technology approaches to artificial intelligence and proprietary anti-fraud behavioral algorithms.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Walden spent 14 years at Ernst & Young’s Forensic & Integrity Services Practice in Dallas, New York and Atlanta, eight of which at the partner level leading their Forensic Data Analytics practice. Before EY, he worked at KPMG and Arthur Andersen. During his career, he also served as President and CFO of a privately-funded Internet company, which was subsequently sold to a Fortune 500 Company.

As an industry thought leader, Mr. Walden sits on Compliance Week’s Advisory Board and is featured in many publications including Internal Auditor Magazine, Compliance Week, Harvard Business Review and The Economist. He is a regular columnist for FRAUD Magazine and writes about anti-fraud innovation and how companies can deploy in-house solutions to increase business transparency. As part of COSO’s Anti-Fraud Task Force, Mr. Walden co-authored its “Fraud Risk Management Guide”, which was released in September 2016 and is currently being updated for 2022. He also hosts a bi-weekly podcast show, “The Walden Pond”, which focuses on compliance innovation. 

Mr. Walden earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California. He completed the Harvard Leadership Program at Harvard Business Publishing and is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner. Mr. Walden also volunteered as the President of The Association of Certified Fraud Examiner’s Education and Research Foundation (2016-2021), which provides academic scholarships to students and anti-fraud research to qualified recipients.