 | | James A. Johnson | Gregory Pellegrino | Burt Rea | Samuel J. Silvers | Robert Uhl | Stephen Wagner | David Williams | | 
James A. Johnson
Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Jim Johnson is a Partner in Deloitte & Touche LLP and heads the Accounting Standards and Communications Group. In that role, he is responsible for formulating Deloitte & Touche’s views on developing accounting standards and communicating with standard setters, Deloitte & Touche professionals, clients and other parties interested in financial reporting. Jim has served as Deloitte & Touche’s Senior Managing Director for Financial Instruments, and has practiced in the Global Markets Group where he provided accounting, tax, and risk management advice to dealers and users of innovative financial instruments, including derivatives. Jim is a member of the Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Emerging Issues Task Force. He served as the Chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) Financial Instruments Task Force and its Block Discount Task Force. He also served as a member of the AICPA’s Accounting Standards Executive Committee and its Committee on Banking. Jim was a member of the steering committee and working group that authored the Group of Thirty’s 2003 Report, "Enhancing Public Confidence in Financial Reporting". Jim speaks and publishes extensively in the area of financial instruments. Jim has a Bachelor of Science and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. | | 
Gregory Pellegrino
Global Managing Director, Public Sector
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Greg Pellegrino is the Global Managing Director for the Public Sector in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Deloitte Consulting. Greg leads member firms in helping our public sector clients address a range of issues including national security, impact of the aging population, meeting citizen expectations, accountability & performance and innovative partnerships. Mr. Pellegrino has advised senior business executives and public sector leaders for more than 20 years. He is a well-recognized expert on innovation and strategies for improving citizen service and mission performance. In 2006, Greg was chosen one of the top 10 market channel leaders by Washington Technology Magazine. In 2002, Mr. Pellegrino was called to serve the newly created U.S. Transportation Security Administration to help create an award winning e-Government program for communications and information sharing. He is responsible for Deloitte’s work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the firm’s efforts in homeland security globally. Currently, Greg is leading a multi-organization effort to help people of the developing word access clean drinking water.
Mr. Pellegrino is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Washington-based Homeland Security and Defense Business Council representing the leading suppliers to the Department of Homeland Security. He was the Co-Chair of the 2003 Privacy and Security Working Group for the Council for Excellence in Government study, Homeland Security from the Citizen’s Perspective. Mr. Pellegrino is often a featured speaker at national and international meetings where the focus is government performance or homeland security. | | 
Burt Rea
Director, Organization and People Performance
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Mr. Rea is a Director in the Human Capital practice of Deloitte Consulting. He has more than 14 years experience leading organizational performance, executive coaching and development, change management, and process transformation efforts for some of Deloitte’s most significant clients. Mr. Rea has worked with client executives and led consulting teams for large-scale organization transformation projects, including efforts focused on post-merger restructuring, HR organization/ process design, and program deployment. Mr. Rea has also led the change management, communications, and HR integration aspects of multiple large-scale ERP implementations. Mr. Rea primarily serves companies in the Life Sciences and Process Chemicals industries. | | 
Samuel J. Silvers
Principal, Strategy & Operations
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Sam Silvers is a Principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte Consulting) and the National Practice Leader for the Finance Transformation practice. In addition to the more than 19 years of diversified consulting experience, Sam has significant experience in the areas of finance transformation, financial and management reporting, financial consolidation and general accounting processes, finance business intelligence, business planning, budgeting and forecasting, activity-based management, merger and acquisition integration, shareholder value and financial analysis, and other core financial process improvement. Sam speaks and writes frequently on issues related to financial management and CFO issues and is a contributor to a number of publications, including CFO Magazine, Corporate Finance Review, Financial Week, and CIO Magazine. He also co-authored two research reports with Deloitte Consulting LLP and CFO Research Services: “IQ Matters, Senior Finance and IT Executives Seek to Boost Information Quality,” and “Different Paths to One Truth, Finance Brings Value Discipline to Strategy Execution.” | | 
Robert Uhl
Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Bob Uhl is a partner in the Accounting Standards and Communications Group in the National Office of Deloitte & Touche LLP. His responsibilities include formulating policies on accounting matters under both US and international accounting standards, and communicating with accounting standard setters, Deloitte professionals, clients and other parties interested in financial reporting. He has also had roles in the organization’s Accounting Consultation Group and Stamford, Connecticut audit practice.
Bob is a member of the Financial Accounting Standard Board’s Emerging Issues Task Force, a member of the International Accounting Standard Board’s Financial Instrument Working Group, and actively participates in a number of other standard setter forums. He previously served as a member of the AICPA’s Accounting Standards Executive Committee. Bob is also a member of several committees with a financial reporting focus.
While most of Bob’s career has been at Deloitte & Touche, he has also been a managing director in the accounting policy group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and a Professional Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Bob graduated from the University at Albany in 1987 with a B.S. degree in Accounting. | | 
Stephen Wagner
Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Steve Wagner is the managing partner for Deloitte & Touche LLP’s U.S. Center for Corporate Governance, where he leads the firm’s integrated strategy on governance, risk, and compliance. Steve’s vision for Deloitte’s U.S. Center for Corporate Governance is to provide a platform for education, dialogue, and thought-leadership that will help advance collaborative efforts between corporations, the accounting profession, academia, and government in the area of corporate governance. He assumed this role in June 2005. In this role, Steve leverages the knowledge and expertise that he gained during the prior three years as co-leader of Deloitte’s Sarbanes-Oxley service offerings, where he developed strategies and solutions to respond to clients’ Sarbanes-Oxley needs. He has been a leader and significant contributor to Deloitte’s Sarbanes-related thought-leadership, methodologies, service offerings, and publications. Steve is a frequent speaker on Sarbanes compliance, and co-developed Deloitte’s Sarbanes-Oxley Sustained Compliance Solution Framework, which is being used by Deloitte clients to derive value from their compliance efforts. Steve has contributed articles to a variety of national publications, including an April 2006 piece in Harvard Business Review on the benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley, and a chapter in the ABA publication, “The Practitioner’s Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.” In early 2006, Business Finance Magazine recognized Steve as one of the 60 most influential voices in accounting and finance. Steve also serves as the innovation leader for Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Audit and Enterprise Risk Services practice. Steve is the executive producer of Deloitte’s innovative Dbriefs for Financial Executives webcast series, which has reached over 200,000 executives since the inception in late 2004. He has over 34 years of accounting and auditing experience, and was previously the managing partner of the New England Assurance practice. He has extensive experience serving large, complex businesses, including retail and consumer products companies and other SEC registrants. Among Steve’s civic activities, he is a member of the overseers committee for the Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Boston. He is a member of the board of directors of the United Way of Mass Bay and is chair of the United Way audit committee. He is also a member of Deloitte & Touche’s national United Way steering committee. He is an avid marathoner, having completed seven Boston Marathons, which he runs to raise contributions for breast cancer outreach programs. Steve holds a BSBA degree in accounting from Babson College. Steve was a contributing author to the following Deloitte & Touche LLP publications: | | 
David Williams
National Managing Principal, Advisory Services
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
David Williams is the national managing principal of the Advisory Services practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. He has more than 21 years of consulting experience and has provided litigation, dispute resolution and management consulting services to both domestic and global clients in a variety of industries. David’s experience includes testifying as an expert in litigation, arbitration, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) matters; serving as an arbitrator/mediator; and consulting to management, executives and boards of directors. He has experience in the calculation of damages in commercial disputes involving breach of contract, financial and securities fraud, wrongful termination, adjustment of purchase price, regulatory noncompliance and other causes of action. David has provided consulting services to the aerospace and defense industry on business and financial issues, including strategic planning and analysis, new business development and pricing, manufacturing and service delivery, cost measurement and control, performance measurement, financial accounting and reporting and the associated compliance requirements. In addition, he has provided consulting services to parties to the bankruptcy process, including the preparation of bankruptcy schedules, the development and analysis of plans of reorganization, providing sworn testimony in bankruptcy court regarding debtor financial and performance issues, and the analysis and restructuring of troubled investments. David has experience in planning, design and implementation of information systems solutions for clients, including large-scale implementations of financial, manufacturing, accounting, and enterprise-wide information systems, post-implementation reviews of failing/problem IT solutions and redesign and reimplementation of underperforming systems. He holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. | |
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