New York Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Dear Ladies & Gentlemen:

There will be a general meeting at Trattoria Dopo Teatro on May 29, 2012 starting at 6:00 P.M.  2 CPE Credits will be awarded.

Along with a guest speaker, there will be a Special Presentation to Mr. Ernesto “Pete” Castillo, for his time and commitment as the Chapter’s President. 

Our guest speakers will be:

Mr. Yogesh Bahl, Partner, Deloitte. Presentation Title: "Why are companies unable to detect fraud effectively?"

Mr. Prakash Santhana, Director, Deloitte. Presentation Title: "Fraud Prevention Solutions"

GUEST SPEAKERS

Mr. Yogesh Bahl, Partner, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, and

Mr. Prakash Santhana, Director at Deloitte

Mr. Yogesh Bahl's bio:

 Yogesh Bahl is a partner in the Forensic & Dispute Services (F&DS) practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Deloitte FAS) where he serves as the National Life Sciences Leader and Northeast Antifraud Consulting Leader for the practice. Yogesh has more than 16 years of experience providing forensic investigation, dispute consulting services, and risk advisory services.

As a result of his experience in helping companies negotiate contracts and evaluate adherence to contract terms, Yogesh has been engaged to testify during breach of contract and damage actions. In addition, Yogesh has assisted companies in managing issues with respect to fraud allegations, strategic alliances, supply chain revenue leakage, intellectual property licensing, counterfeiting and grey market activity. Yogesh has helped companies mitigate the risk of fraud by providing advisory services involving antifraud programs and controls and risk assessments.

Yogesh is also a part of the regional Quality & Risk Management network where he assists Deloitte FAS professionals by consulting with them on engagements and reviewing various documents for policy and guidelines compliance to help mitigate risks to the organization. He also serves as the Human Resources (HR) Partner for the Northeast F&DS practice and has served in this role for the past four years. As the HR Partner, Yogesh helps manage Deloitte FAS talent by creating and developing talent-related initiatives, leading performance evaluation meetings, and helping manage the recruiting process.

Yogesh holds his MBA in Finance and Statistics, and his BS in Accounting and International Business, both from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Mr. Prakash Santhana's bio:

Prakash Santhana, Director, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, has worked in the fraud/risk management groups of large credit card issuers and payment startups for over 17 years prior to joining Deloitte.  He has extensive experience in the types of fraud committed and the analytics required to detect fraud at the point of sale including Credit and Debit card fraud, ACH fraud, check fraud, online fraud, and online application fraud. Additionally, he has was the co-founder of an investment management company focused on detecting insider trading. He has also managed the fraud group of one of the largest global credit card networks, and was a contributing member of their global fraud council of issuers, acquirers and merchants. His past work also includes setting up risk/fraud infrastructure for an ecommerce based instant credit application process for a retail private label card issuer, and infrastructure to support account authentication, account monitoring, collections and fraud investigations of a kiosk based check cashing company, and for a person-to-person online payment entity with online checks. He is currently focused on helping companies mitigate fraud by employing sophisticated fraud detection and prevention methods