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JANUARY 30, 2008 MEETING

BOB SPRINGATE

( Senior Director with Mount Sinai Medical Center)

 WILL SPEAK ON

A MEDLEY OF FRAUD CASES

Bob Springate is a Senior Director with Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified International Accountant (AIA). Bob studied engineering in England at the Sussex Advanced College of Technology and at the Medway College of Technology, and has an extensive background in the construction industry.

Bob has successfully combined his construction, finance and fraud examination skills for more than thirty-five years, with world-wide management experience in energy, engineering and construction, mining and metals, telecommunications, manufacturing, management consulting, public accounting, financial services,

insurance, and publishing.

Bob spent the fifteen years in consultancy with the Construction Advisory Services practices of Coopers & Lybrand, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche and UHY Advisors.

Prior to this, Bob spent twenty years in industry and commerce where he held several senior management positions for major corporations such as the Fluor Corporation (world-ranked no. 1 or 2 in the Engineering and Construction industry, depending on how you measure the back-log!) and the Corporation of Lloyd’s (Lloyd’s of London).

He also has provided litigation support services for both owners and contractors, testifying as an expert witness in Europe and the US.                  


 

PHILIP KLECKNER

 (Director in charge of the Business Crimes Group at RosenfarbWinters, LLC)

WILL SPEAK ON

PERPETRATION, INVESTIGATION, DISCOVERY AND "POST MORTEM" OF FRAUD.

Philip Kleckner is the Director in charge of the Business Crimes Group at RosenfarbWinters, LLC in Roseland, New Jersey.  In this role, Phil supervises and manages staff accountants and managers for all cases involving white-collar crimes, i.e. fraud, embezzlement, and locating concealed assets. Additionally, he meets with clients to evaluate and implement policies, procedures and internal controls while identifying, designing, and streamlining cost effective operations.
 
Phil has nearly 35 years of experience in public accounting with emphasis in the specialized consulting needs of the legal, insurance and financial industries. As a Certified Fraud Examiner, Phil has extensive experience in forensic accounting and has testified as an expert witness in federal, state, and criminal court cases.

Early in his career, Phil was Manager of the Litigation Services Group at Laventhol & Horwath in New York where he performed forensic accounting services on major insurance company claims while assisting various clients in assorted commercial litigation. He later joined Citibank where he was the department head of their anti-fraud group that investigated all internal and external attempts to defraud the bank worldwide. While at Citibank, he participated in several major investigations, which lead to criminal prosecution in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
 
Before joining RosenfarbWinters, Phil was a Manager in the Litigation & Valuation Group at Amper, Politziner, & Mattia, P.A. There, he conducted complex fraud investigations to identify how the fraud occurred, traced and located recoverable assets and provided assistance to clients in various types of commercial litigation.
 
Mr. Kleckner has spoken on many topics to various businesses around the world, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), New York and New Jersey State Society of CPAs, New York State Society of Public Accountants, Institute of Internal Auditors, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. 

Phil has also developed and led courses on Fraud Awareness and Fraud Detection and Prevention and has co-authored a chapter of the AICPA's publication on Income Reconstruction: A Guide to Discovering Unreported Income.  He has also co-authored a 4-part series of articles for the CPA Journal on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
 
Mr. Kleckner received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Dayton. He has continued his education by earning his CPA certificate and is licensed to practice in New Jersey, New York and Ohio.