Happy New Year!!!
Welcome to 2022 and a whole new year of amazing training and networking
events. I hope everyone’s holiday was
safe and warm with loved ones. In
December, we hosted our 2nd in-person event. A day-long fraud seminar on The Seduction
of Fraud paired with a luncheon on Conducting a Fraud Risk Assessment in
a Pandemic. We were so excited to
see those shining faces in the audience once again!
At the luncheon, we recognized Wendell York, VP of Investor
Relations, Corporate Development, and Treasury, for his many years of
dedication and service to the IIA Houston Chapter. Take a deeper look at Wendell’s history with
the IIA and the Houston Chapter below.
Our next event in January will be a virtual seminar and
details on that will be in your email inbox, so keep an eye out. We also have two conferences coming up in the
next couple of months: PetroChem Conference and Government Conference. Both conferences offer 8 hours of CPE, so
don’t miss the opportunity to register.
Details and registration information for the conferences coming
soon.
As a reminder, the IIA is waiving the application fee
for the CRMA exam through Dec. 31, 2021.
The IIA is also offering a 20% new membership discount, so if you
know someone who isn’t a member or wants to rejoin, give them the heads up that
now’s the time.
Welcome, welcome to our new members who joined in December!
I hope to meet you at one of our future in-person events! And for all of our wonderful members, we have
volunteer opportunities large and small.
If you’re interested in helping the Chapter out in any way, send us a
quick note at membership@Houstoniia.org
to let us know.
Check us out on LinkedIn!
You might have seen a new LinkedIn site for the IIA Houston
Chapter. The official rollout will
happen in January, so be on the lookout for more information and be sure to
join our new page! Thanks for your
support!
Chrysti
Chrysti Ziegler, CIA, CFE, CRMA
Houston Chapter President
president@houstoniia.org
Wendell York’s Career and his service to IIA and the Houston Chapter
Wendell York joined Superior Energy Services in June 2017 as its Vice
President, Internal Audit,. In 2016, Wendell was named the Director, Internal
Audit at Westlake Chemical, an international manufacturer and supplier of
petrochemicals and consulting services for global operations with additional
responsibility for SOX compliance. Prior to Westlake, Wendell was the Internal
Audit Director at Rowan Companies (2011 - 2016) where he was responsible for
the internal audit function, operational audits and the company's ERM process.
He initially joined Rowan as an Internal Audit Manager in 2009. Prior to Rowan,
Wendell was a Manager at Protiviti focused on providing internal audit services
to upstream oil and gas and manufacturing clients in Houston. Wendell joined
the Chapter's Board in June 2017 and has led chapter's CAE Roundtable events
for the past several years. Wendell has an MBA and BS degree from Louisiana
State University. He is a CIA and CRMA.
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