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Blair Williams is Chief Risk Officer at Q2.

Nicole Julius is National Managing Partner of Enterprise Assurance Services at Grant Thornton, which performed the Independent Controls Review.

And Emil Lassen is one of the founders of AIUC, the organization behind the AIUC-1 standard.

So Blair, Nicole, and Emil, welcome to the show.

So one of the things that we were going through is looking at the reports is the absence of technology-related standards to the use of AI.

And so we also at that time were going through a review of our current SOC 1 and SOC 2 auditor.

And Grant Thornton was one of the auditors that we were talking to.

And when we met up with Nicole and team at a meeting, I asked about this, like, hey, what are you seeing? What are you hearing about SOC? in the existing reports, SOC 1 and SOC 2, anything coming out about AI security standards, controls we can put in place that can then be tested to provide some assurance.

Hello, CFO Neely Rosen is with us.

Neely's career has taken her from public accounting at Grant Thornton to brand finance and internal audit at Campbell Soup, and later to Urban Outfitters, where she led a major financial systems transformation.

She went on to serve as CFO of the Greater Philadelphia YMCA before joining Grace & Clothiers, where clothing...

We're catching up with Nealey here at Sweet World to explore her career journey and discover how she's helping guide the growth of an evolving apparel business.

And he said, And a few people have sent a text in about this because there was a story a while ago where an Irish company, there is an Irish company active in the Pornhub group.

And they had initially appointed Grant Thornton as an auditor, but Grant Thornton withdrew quite promptly when they found out what actually their industry was.

It's all about money.

Moncrief.

The next edition of the Caribbean Investment Forum is scheduled to take place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

And Grant Thornton Turks and Caicos is celebrating a major fundraising milestone after its annual surf and turf charity event surpassed $1 million in total contributions since its launch in 2006.

The 17th edition of the popular fundraising event held on Friday, October 9th, generated $105,000.

pushing the initiative's cumulative fundraising total beyond the seven-figure mark.

I have a BA from SUNY Buffalo in communications, and I have an MBA in HR management with a focus in HR management from the University of Arizona.

Right now, I am currently serving as the associate director for global talent effectiveness at Grant Thornton.

But my career has taken me through a lot of big name organizations.

So prior to Grant Thornton, I worked for HCSC, which is a parent company of Five Blues Plans within the United States.

Prior to that, I served global talents as well as local US talent focused work for McDonald's corporate here in Chicago.

I worked for Cigna Healthcare as well.

[upbeat music] This is David Cowen with Careers in the Business of Law, the LDI Legal Data Intelligence series.

Today our special guests are Matt Hamilton of Morgan Lewis, and Melina Estathiou, uh, with the wonderful firm of Grant Thornton.

Um, I'm just gonna jump right into it.

Let's start with the end state.

Ah, you're so welcome.

Um, Melina, let's start with you.

You're the managing director at Grant Thornton.

Tell us a little bit about your role and a little bit about this, uh, approach and this framing.