Chaos & Control: Get Smart About Managing Emerging Risks in a Dynamic Business Environment

Sonny Brandtner is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner with over twenty years of leadership experience in corporate risk assessments and internal controls. He has been Partner at Briggs & Veselka and Deloitte, as well as Director at PWC. He also has served in risk management roles at Burger King and predecessor banks of Bank of America. His experience includes developing enterprise risk management programs, performing fraud risk assessments, providing internal audit, optimizing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance programs, driving process improvement, and transformation such as ESG. He was appointed to the University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business Accounting Advisory Board in 2020, served on the Houston Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors Board of Governors for ten years, and on the Houston Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors Advisory Board. Sonny is a frequent speaker at IIA, and AICPA conferences, and was a presenter at two ACFE global conferences. He was a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs Graduate School of Business for four years, teaching corporate risks and controls. Sonny is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Accounting and minor in Management.