About MetricStream
MetricStream is a market leader in Enterprise-wide GRC and Quality Solutions for global corporations. MetricStream enterprise solutions are used by leading corporations in across industries to manage regulatory and industry-mandated governance, risk compliance and quality management initiatives. MetricStream's ComplianceOnline.com portal is used by over a million compliance professionals worldwide.
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About RHDC International
RHDC International is the largest export Legalization and export Letter of Credit company in the United States, serving freight forwarders and exporters for almost two decades. With offices in major export cities nationwide, we are able to legalize/chamberize documents at the correct consular jurisdiction irrespective of origin or destination, saving companies both time and money. We offer our customers a proven system combining a sophisticated tracking network with highly experienced and trained professionals who are focused on providing the shortest possible turnaround on legalization requests.
About Favored Solutions
Favored Solutions provides leadership, vision and customer focus to the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) marketplace through its unique, integrated product offerings and professional services. Whether you are a small organization in the early stages of your GRC strategy or a global organization requiring an integrated enterprise web based GRC framework, Favored Solutions has the right solution for you.
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About NEMEA
NEMEA provides automated, on-demand software solutions for Compliance, Risk, Remediation & Governance. NEMEA’s SaaS solutions enable organizations to conduct extensive compliance surveys, assess risk, and monitor remediation progress, ensuring audit readiness and improved governance. Their tools allows you to stay on top of over 35 evolving standards and requirements across all departments without impacting IT resources. NEMEA is committed to helping companies collaborate, make better business decisions and lower compliance
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About KPMG
KPMG’s Advisory Services professionals are committed to helping you balance risk and controls with improved business performance, thus enabling your organization to maintain compliance and achieve sustainable value over time.
KPMG can help an organization’s top-ranking executives understand and address the balance between internal control, risks, and performance. KPMG also helps boards and audit committees understand regulatory issues and approaches to help mitigate regulatory risks. KPMG can help company leaders achieve the balance of risk management with business improvement.
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.us.kpmg.com), is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have over 92,000 professionals, including 7,100 partners, in 145 countries.
About US-Arab Bilateral Chamber of Commerce
The Bilateral Chamber provides opportunities to discuss trade, industry, commerce, politics and social issues. The Bilateral Chamber sponsors and participates in both Inbound and Outbound Trade Missions to establish a greater network of private and public sector entities and provide firsthand knowledge of trade relations to our members. Trade Missions identify sectors for growth in infrastructure development, transportation, telecommunications, petroleum industries, travel and tourism, and healthcare and health services. We serve as a liaison between prominent government and private trade development agencies, associations and academic institutions in the U.S. and MENA region.
About UHY Advisors
UHY Advisors, Inc. provides tax and business consulting services through wholly owned subsidiary entities that operate under the name of “UHY Advisors.” UHY Advisors, Inc. and its subsidiary entities have more than 1,400 professionals providing services from offices across the United States, and is ranked as the 12th largest professional services firm providing tax and business consulting services in the country by Accounting Today. Attest services are performed through an alternative practice structure with UHY LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm.
UHY Advisors’ Enterprise Risk Advisory Services (ERAS) group offers clients an integrated and practical approach not only to identify risks, but also to work within their organizations to develop practical strategies to help mitigate risk and opportunities for process and profit enhancement. Services range from Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, technology assurance, and full governance, reporting, compliance, and testing implementations. The ERAS technology branch, the Technology Assurance and Advisory Services (TAAS) group, has developed repeatable solutions to meet the demands of companies in a myriad of industries including energy, retail, and manufacturing. The practice’s GRC Solution Center in Houston focuses on GRC issues from both a business and technical perspective, and has formulated frameworks based on best practices that UHY Advisors has developed for its expanding client base.
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About CA
CA GRC Manager is a centralized system to manage policies, ensure compliance with those policies, and manage the risks associated with non-compliance. It helps improve the visibility of an organization’s risk and compliance efforts, reduce the cost of compliance and eliminate redundant compliance activities.
CA is one of the world's largest management software providers. Our software and expertise unify and simplify complex environments across the enterprise for greater business results. Founded in 1976, CA today is a global company with headquarters in the United States and 150 offices in more than 45 countries. We serve more than 99% of Fortune 1000® companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide. For more information, visit (www.ca-grc.com)
About Adams Harris
Although it was founded in 2006, Adams Harris traces it roots back to a moment 11 years earlier, when Adams Street Partners, a Chicago-based venture capital firm, agreed to help a young entrepreneur named Mike Harris form a company called Audit Force––later to be re-branded as Jefferson Wells. Adams Harris responds to the ever-changing needs of the corporate world by providing consulting and training, co-sourcing and out-sourcing, assistance with special projects, staff support and more. We have a simple operating model: Listen to the client, tailor a solution, be as affordable as possible and provide professionals who get the job done right.
We work with companies of all sizes that hail from a wide array of industries, and are guided by an expert management team with a deep level of professional services experience. Our CEO, Mike Harris, is a proven and well-known entrepreneur who has founded and built several successful service companies over the past 20 years.
About the UCF
The Unified Compliance Framework is the first independent initiative to exclusively support IT compliance management by focusing on commonalities across regulations, standards-based development, and simplified architectures. Unified Compliance's strategic approach to IT compliance reduces cost, limits liability. The UCF's strategic approach simplifies compliance and standards, reduces cost, limits liability, and leverages the value of compliance-related technologies through a harmonized set of controls against which all regulatory standards and best practices can be mapped. The UCF was created by Dorian Cougias and his research partner, Marcelo Halpern of the international law firm Latham and Watkins, which oversees all legal aspects of the UCF. More information can be found at www.unifiedcompliance.com.
About Enterprise Risk Associates
Enterprise Risk Associates, LLC is a professional services firm, specializing in Operational Risk Assessment and Performance Measurement. We’re made up of professionals from operations, finance and risk management, experienced in industry and management consulting. Our experience ranges over a broad array of industries and organizations and includes project management, operations risk management, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, systems analysis, design and development, business process improvement, financial modeling, product implementation and strategic planning.
About CF&W
CF&W is a Houston-based full-service CPA firm, helping businesses and individuals interested in financial growth meet their objectives and obligations. Our entrepreneurial approach and significant experience working in industry are what set us apart from other firms. Not only are our partners veterans of Big 4 and mid-tier public accounting firms, they have also spent significant time working within companies as CFOs, Controllers and other executive-level positions. They’ve worked with FORTUNE 500, middle market, and international clients. And they have a wealth of industry experience in energy, high technology, real estate, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, banking, insurance, and hospitality–to name a few.