"Cuyahoga County Corruption"

Gregory Curtis is a graduate of the University of Akron and the Syracuse College of Law.  He was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Summit County and has been an FBI Special Agent for over 15 years.  Gregory is currently the supervisor for the sqaud working the Cuyahoga County Public Corruption case and has been in that capacity since August 2008.

"Being an External Auditor"

Mr. McGill is a Principal in Department of Defense (DoD) Business Development with Kearney & Company (Kearney).  He is a seasoned DoD professional who has served in Finance and Accounting for both the U.S. Navy and Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS).  Mr. McGill has experience with workforces in excess of 250 personnel reporting to him in the areas of production of entitlements, daily disbursing accountability reporting, treasury cash reporting, and cash and entitlements systems management and development.

Mr. McGill serves as the Principle Corporate Manager for the provision of 115 personnel to DFAS at the Indianapolis center.  This staff provides contingency entitlements support to Army National Guard members nationwide.  This support includes the functions of help desk/call center for all of the Army, agency liaison, hiring and retention, security guidance, personnel and human resource management, and day-to-day technical advice to the on-site program manager.  He also serves as the Principle Corporate Manager for Navy FIP, Navy Financial Statements reporting, and Army FIP.

Mr. McGill serves as the Principal Manager for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) related production support in Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Kansas City, Kansas; and Limestone, Maine.  These activities include travel payments, fuel payments, accounts receivable support, obligation input, vendor payments, maintaining and updating the DoD Financial Management Requirements (FMR), departmental statement preparation for the Marine Corps, and contract payments.  He also manages staff, providing assessment and validation under the Navy Financial Improvement Plan, and provides support for financial statement preparation for the Department of Navy at the Under Assistant Secretary of the Navy's (Comptroller) Financial Management Office.

Mr. McGill served as the Principal Manager for DFAS BRAC activities in support of production at DFAS Norfolk and Columbus.  He also served as the manager for development of the High Performing Organization (HPO) guide for Accounting under the BRAC contract.  He managed workforces for entities at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Finance and Accounting support roles.  He supervised the programmers at Treasury's Financial Management Service who were developing and maintaining the Government Financial Reporting System (GFRS) suite of software.

As a Program Manager at Diverse Technologies Corporation (DTC), Mr. McGill performed integral design and customer service functions in the Standard Procurement System (SPS) to e-Biz interfaces and in the evaluation and design of the employment of e-Biz vendor payment and disbursement modules.  He served as the program manager for DTC's Defense Cash Accountability System (DCAS) contract.  Mr. McGill was in charge of the Navy Functional Management Office (FMO) Interest Reduction Project performing analysis and technical and site reviews of the current Navy vendor payment methodologies and strategies.  His recommendations on projects were reviewed by the Comptroller of the Navy and were adopted.  As part of the duties for this contract, Mr. McGill was asked to lecture at the ASMC Professional Development Institute (PDI) in 2003 in New Orleans.

At DFAS Columbus, Mr. McGill was Chief of Systems Commercial Payment Business Line for the Mechanization of Contract Administrative Service (MOCAS), Integrated Accounts Payable System (IAPS), CAPS Windows and CAPS Clipper, One Pay and Electronic Commerce.

At DFAS Cleveland, Mr. McGill was the Director of One Pay and Cash Reporting Systems, accomplishing deployment of the Global Financial Accounting Data Abstract (FADA), a data warehouse of all Navy and Marine Corps obligations.  He successfully implemented the Automated Accounts Receivable program along with deploying the Receivables and Claims Module.  He initiated Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) 810, 850, and 861 into One Pay and assumed systems responsibilities for the Financial Reporting System (FRS), Centralized Expenditure & Reimbursement Processing System (CERPS), and CMET in 2000.  Mr. McGill was Director of FRS and Cross Disbursing Operations.  He consolidated all FRS sites into Cleveland and established on-time Treasury reporting.  Mr. McGill also developed and deployed CA715 Cross Disbursing Software.  As Financial Systems Analyst, Mr. McGill created the Unit Cost retrieval system and was Project Officer for Pre-validation.

Mr. McGill was a Financial Systems Analyst at the Naval Supply Center in Oakland, CA.  He was also a Senior staff member in the Regional Financial Services Department.  He automated labor collection and was a lecturer at the Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.

At the Naval Supply Center in San Diego, CA, Mr. McGill was the Director of the Commercial Services Division, paying 14,000-20,000 invoices and contracts per month.  He cut interest payments 50%, reduced workforce from 40 to 22 while maintaining production output, and trained customer accounting staff on obligations for invoice payments.  Previously, Mr. McGill worked as a Supervisory Accounting Technician in the Commercial Services Division.  He ran the customer call center and supervised inputting invoices and contracts.

"Rules of the Road"

Bob Skerda is a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones in Lakewood, Ohio.  He has been with Edward Jones for over ten years.  Bob is a native Clevelander and holds the Accredited Asset Management Specialist Designation.

"Process Improvement"

Commander Jeffrey Carrillo has served in the Navy for 22 years.  Currently, he is assigned to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Columbus, Ohio.

During his last military assignment, Commander Carrillo was mobilized to the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) in the International Security Cooperation Office.  At CSTC-A, he served as the Executive Officer for General Krysztof Gorecki of the Polish Army.  The primary mission of the International Security Cooperation is to solicit and accept kinetic and non-kinetic donations on behalf of the Afghan National Army and Police.

During his Navy career, he has served in various positions and commands to include U.S. Forces Japan, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, USS Raleigh and DFAS Cleveland and Columbus.  In addition, Commander Carrillo is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War and Operation Enduring Freedom.

His awards include the Bronze Star of Poland, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Commendation and Achievement Medals and the Combat Action Ribbon.  In his civilian career, he is employed at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and is DAWIA Level II certified.

"Reliable Employees Build A Stronger Team"

Lauri Molnar has worked in the field of Developmental Disabilities for over ten years in the area of public relations, human resources, business development and job coaching for the nonprofit Hattie Larlham.  She is a graduate of the University of Akron with a degree in Fine Arts.  Hattie Larlham has been an organization that has built on her retail experience and human resource skills.  Lauri brings to Hattie Larlham a sense that "it can be done" and the organization has embraced her creativity, leadership and ability to work with people.

In her current role at Hattie Larlham, Lauri is a manager and job coach for The Bakery at Hattie's Cafe & Gift.  Lauri has developed their online shopping cart, which sells gift baskets and baked goods that are produced by people with disabilities.  Lauri oversees all operations of the gift basket program and the bakery, which supplies their seven cafe locations in Summit and Cuyahoga counties.  Developing these two programs has challenged Lauri to see processes differently, the importance of teamwork and just how valuable people with disabilities are to the workforce.

Lauri resides in North Canton with her husband Jim of twenty two years.  They have raised two children who are now in college.

"The Oklahoma City Bombing Case - A Prosecutor's Perspective"

On August 3, 2010, Cleveland State University's Board of Trustees ratified a recommendation by President Ronald Berkman to appoint Geoffrey S. Mearns to the position of Provost.  Prior to this appointment, Mearns held the position of Interim Provost for six months.

As the chief academic officer of the University, Mearns supervises eight academic deans and five vice provosts, as well as the director of the University library.

Mearns joined the University on July 22, 2005 as Dean of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.  During his tenure as Dean, the law school recruited a stronger and more diverse student body and several outstanding and diverse new faculty, substantially improved the performance of its graduates on the Ohio bar exam, completed a major renovation of the law building, including a technologically advanced mock trial courtroom, developed a new branding and marketing campaign, and substantially increased donations from alumni and law firms.  In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Mearns has taught a federal criminal investigations seminar, criminal law, and white collar crime.

Prior to his appointment as Dean, Mearns was a practicing lawyer for more than 15 years.  From 1998 until 2005, he was in private practice.  His practice focused on federal criminal investigations and prosecutions and complex commercial litigation.  While in private practice, he was also actively involved in pro bono work.

Prior to commencing private practice in 1998, Mearns had a distinguished nine-year career as a prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice.  During his tenure with the Justice Department, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he was Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section.  In that position, he was responsible for investigating, prosecuting, and supervising cases against members and associates of organized-crime families charged with racketeering, murder, extortion, bribery and obstruction of justice.  Mearns was also the First Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.  From 1997 to 1998, as Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General, he participated in the prosecution of Terry Nichols, one of the two men convicted for bombing the Oklahoma City Federal Building.

Mearns received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1981, and his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1987.  After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Boyce F. Martin, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Mearns has been active in professional and community service.  Among other activities, he was Chair of the Merit Selection Committee for the United States Magistrate Judgeship for the Northern District of Ohio and twice Chair of the Merit Selection Committee on Bankruptcy Judgeships for the Northern District of Ohio.  He is a trustee of Wingspan Care Group, Applewood Centers, Inc., and the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland.  He is also a member of the Community-Based Correctional Facility Governing Board for Cuyahoga County.

Mearns was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community, the Lay Review Board of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, and the American Bar Association Ohio Death Penalty Moratorium Project.

Mearns has been an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and New York Law School.  He has published articles on criminal litigation, and he is a frequent speaker and commentator on various criminal law issues, including counter-terrorism.

He lives in Shaker Heights with his wife, Jennifer, and their five children.

"The Biggest Challenges Facing CPA's Today"

J. Clarke Price, CAE, is President and CEO of The Ohio Society of CPAs.  The Ohio Society has 22,000 members and is the fifth largest of the state organizations serving CPAs in the United States.  During his 38-year career with The Ohio Society of CPAs, Price has worked in virtually all areas of the Society's operation, including public relations, governmental relations and marketing.  He became CEO in 1990.  For ten years, Accounting Today magazine has recognized Price as one of the "100 most influential people in the accounting profession in the United States."  In 1999, Accounting Technology magazine named him one of the nine "technology superstars in the CPA profession."  Price has been an active participant in the activities of the AICPA and is a former chairman of two AICPA committees - the Accountants Legal Liability Committee and the Accounting Careers Committee.  He holds the distinction of being the first non-CPA to chair an AICPA committee.  His record of contributions to the CPA profession and AICPA was recognized in 2001 when he received the AICPA Distinguished Service Award.  Price is a member of the Franklin University Board of Trustees and The Ohio State University Accounting Advisory Board.  He is a former member of the Kent State University Business Advisory Council.  Before joining The Ohio Society of CPAs, Price was an account executive with a Philadelphia-based advertising agency where he concentrated on clients in the resort and sporting goods industries.  Price also served on active duty in the U.S. Army as a Public Information Specialist for the First Army in New York City.

"An Executive Job: Fraud Prevention"

Frank M. Klaus, CPA is a full time lecturer at Cleveland State University.  Currently, he teaches Accounting Information Systems, Information Systems Auditing and both Financial and Managerial Accounting in the M.B.A. program.  Mr. Klaus' undergraduate degree is in Finance from The Ohio State University and his master's degree is in Accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton.  Prior to entering the teaching profession, Mr. Klaus had thirty-five years of experience in the healthcare field.  He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Mr. Klaus and his wife of forty-one years, Michele, live in Pepper Pike and have three grown daughters.  Mr. Klaus is active in the Cleveland Hiking Club.

"Financial Analytics"

Cheryl Scheidt is a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting with over 18 years of experience aiding Federal organizations in transforming their finance and accounting operations.  She is a leader in Deloitte's Federal Financial Management practice with a focus on the Federal Finance Analytics and Integrated Performance Management offerings.  In this role, she is responsible for offering development, delivery support, marketing, and training.  Ms. Scheidt leads a variety of engagements in DoD and Healthcare focusing on financial improvement, predicative analytics, metrics development, budgeting, and forensic accounting.

As a long-time native of Indianapolis, Ms. Scheidt consulted to DFAS for 12 years on projects such as the BRAC PMO, Accounting HPO, STANFINS System Assessment, Civilian Pay Operational Business Process Improvement, and the Defense Corporate Database.  Ms. Scheidt is a member of ASMC and AGA.  She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Project Management Professional (PMP).

"Working for Ohioans to Achieve A Skinnier, Smarter Government"