Meredith Y.

Meredith Y. has over 18 years of experience in assurance and advisory, audit and risk, and information security roles. In 2014, they began working as an Assurance and Advisory Director for The Mako Group, LLC, performing security, risk, audit and advisory services for various companies in such industries as financial, healthcare and manufacturing. Meredith specialized in internal controls design and testing as well as compliance and risk assessments. Meredith also held roles as Audit and Risk Manager and Senior Information Security Auditor. From 2012 to 2014, they were a Senior IT Compliance Analyst at Sallie Mae. From 2010 to 2012, they were an Information Systems Auditor at Republic Airways. From 2009 to 2010, they were an Audit Manager at Entertainment Distribution Company, Inc., where they worked with management as the sole U.S. auditor to maintain a SOX compliance strategy, including testing financial and IT 404 controls and reporting the results; they also handled the Human Resources function due to resource constraints. From 2008 to 2009, they were a Financial Consultant Manager at WellPoint. From 2002 to 2008, they were an Audit Analyst at ADM.

Meredith Y. obtained their Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Truman State University between 1997 and 2002. Meredith then obtained the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) certification from the Institute of Internal Auditors in 2007, followed by the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification from ISACA in 2010. In 2013, Meredith Y. earned their Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) from the Institute of Internal Auditors. In 2018, they earned their Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification from the Scrum Alliance. In 2020, Meredith Y. obtained their Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) certification from the Cloud Security Alliance, Certified HITRUST CSF Practitioner (CCSFP) certification from HITRUST, and Certified HITRUST Quality Professional (CHQP) certification from HITRUST.