TONY P. IELASE CISA

Tony has over 30 years of experience providing internal audit, SOX compliance, enterprise risk management and strategic reviews of internal audit and compliance functions for various industries, including utilities, retail, manufacturing, higher education, healthcare, financial services, technology and aerospace and defense.

Prior to joining Schneider Downs, Tony was a director at a National Big 4 firm for 15 years where he helped lead their risk consulting practice in the Columbus and Pittsburgh markets. He has significant experience managing large scale SOX 404 readiness engagements, focusing on both financial and IT-related control activities. These projects included SOX IPO program readiness and implementation, acquisition integration, material weakness remediation support, SOX program optimization and providing PMO and oversight of SOX program execution.

Tony also has significant experience helping companies successfully transition from an in-house model to an outsourcing model. He currently serves as the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) at a publicly traded online higher education technology company, overseeing the company’s ERM program from an outsourced model perspective. Additionally, Tony served as an interim CAE for a multi-national public organization where he turned around an underperforming internal audit function and managed the function’s risk assessment, audit plan development and execution, IIA Standards assessment and remediation, quality assurance, as well as Audit Committee reporting and SOX compliance.