Internal audit powering enterprise trust

Michael Bondar

Michael Bondar is a principal in the Risk & Financial Advisory business leading Deloitte’s Enterprise Trust offering. He focuses on helping clients improve organizational performance by building, protecting and enhancing levels of trust for companies across a wide range of stakeholder groups. Bondar spent the first decade of his career leading business process transformation and ERP implementation programs for global clients across consumer, life sciences & health care, and technology, media & telecom industries. Then, after spending time as a technology executive at a leading software company, he returned to Deloitte to lead the firm’s Global Innovation efforts focused on the development, scaling, and commercialization of our various technology-based solutions. Today, Bondar resides in Boca Raton, FL with his wife and two children. Holding a degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas and after growing up in Kansas City, he is an avid sports fan of the Chiefs, Royals and his alma-mater Kansas Jayhawks.

Kate Graeff

Kate Graeff is a vice president of Enterprise Trust within Deloitte’s Risk & Financial Advisory business. In this role, she advises C-Suite executives on opportunities to grow their business, drive loyalty and engagement, and protect their brand by (re)building trust with their stakeholders, whether they are consumers, employees, business partners, regulators, or community members. Graeff’s background is in innovation, digital strategy, and entre preneurship. She has experience defining organizational strategy, shaping new offerings, and designing, developing, and scaling tech nology solutions for global adoption. She loves envisioning and shaping the future in response to social, economic, and technolog ical trends. Having worked in over 20 countries around the world, she takes a global point of view on the world’s biggest challenges and opportunities. Graeff holds a Master of International Business from the Fletcher School at Tufts and dual degrees in Diplomacy and French from Occidental College. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two children.

Geoffrey Kovesdy

Geoff has 20 years of experience, where he focuses on collaborating with his clients to develop bespoke solutions for their strategic opportunities & initiatives. This includes, but is not limited to risk management, digital transformations, process reengineering, business process outsourcing/insourcing, and ERP implementations. His experience involves leading client relationships through Internal Audit, Finance & Accounting, Compliance, Cyber Security, and Risk Management and he brings the firm’s assets to help his clients and their teams succeed. His specialization is risk management, where he spends a significant amount of time assisting his clients in modernizing and transforming risk management activities across the 3 Lines by utilizing digital / AI capabilities and innovative ways of working. This includes strategy development and implementation, facilitating lab sessions and training, and identifying and developing digital use cases and assets. In addition, Geoff is a member of our Internal Audit market offering and Accounting & Internal Controls Offering Portfolio Leadership Teams and leads our Dynamic Risk Assessment capability. He is also a member of our AI Advisory team of our Finance Transformation leadership team. Geoff has led IA, SOX and compliance activities for multiple Fortune 500 companies and has managed operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, financial, and IT IAs domestically and globally, as well as assisted with implementing enterprise risk management frameworks and conducting internal audit risk assessments. In addition, throughout Geoff’s time with Deloitte, he has helped to incubate and bring several new products, technology assets, and services to market and is a recognized speaker at several industry and domain conferences on the topics of Risk Management, Digital Risk Management, AI, Analytics, and automation, and Risk Excellence (Coordinated Assurance).