NEOACFE MAR/APR 2020 SPECIAL NEWSLETTER

All ACFE Members must meet the strict conditions for admission to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Thereafter, all of us must exemplify the highest moral and ethical standards and must agree to abide by the bylaws of the ACFE and the Code of Professional Ethics.

To review information on the ACFE Code of Ethics as well as the Code of Professional Standards, please visit the ACFE’s site linked below:

http://www.acfe.com/code-of-ethics.aspx

Since 2007, Ralph Barone, CFE, CAMS has been a Special Investigator with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office in Cleveland. He is currently assigned to a Major Crime Task Force, established jointly by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office and the Ohio Organized Crime Investigation Commission. Prior to this, he was assigned to a Public Corruption Task Force named “Operation Broken Trust” and a member of a Mortgage Fraud Task Force named “Operation Clean House”, both of which were established jointly by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office and The Ohio Organized Crime Investigation Commission.

Ralph graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology in 1973. Soon after he was employed as a Patrolman for the Edinboro, PA Police Department and in 1979 became Chief of Police until 1994. Post police work, he spent some time as a licensed realtor in Pennsylvania and worked as a Branch Manager for A.T. Systems, an armored transport service company.

Ralph became a Certified Fraud Examiners in 2010 and received training at the National White-Collar Crime Center in the areas of Financial Investigation and Financial Records Examination and Analysis in 2012 and 2013. He then received his designation as a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and obtained a Private Investigator’s license in 2018.

In his off time, Ralph serves as an adjunct instructor of Criminal Justice at Remington College, has fun and enjoys his 4 grown children and 6 grandchildren, conducting genealogy research on his family, plays golf and collects Bruce Springsteen music and memorabilia. 

RYAN SIEBEL, CPA

PARTNER MARCUM LLP

Ryan is a member of Marcum’s Assurance Services Group. He has over 18 years of experience in public accounting and financial reporting with both publicly held and privately owned organizations. Ryan provides quality control leadership in that department in addition to supervising and managing audits and reviews in various industries. He has significant experience with manufacturing, governmental, nonprofit and technology organizations, as well as internal control projects and carve-out financial reporting. 

Prior to joining Marcum, Ryan held several positions with a multinational accounting firm and was part of the annual audit process for large SEC clients. He served for several years in a national office role developing and delivering training materials for other audit professionals and authoring audit documentation templates, resources, and best practices. In this capacity, he developed substantial portions of the firm’s standard working paper templates for audits of non-public entities.

TICKETS

$75.00 NEOACFE Chapter Member Ticket

$75.00 NON-Chapter Member Ticket

$25.00 STUDENT TICKET

Ryan holds a Master of Accountancy degree from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, also from Case Western Reserve University. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants.

The deadline to submit your award nomination is March 16, 2020.