FRANCIS NEMIA

Professor Nemia is an experienced professional and active board member and academic who is experienced in dealing with Advisory, Auditing and Technology issues at the executive and operational level. He recently served as the Managing Principal of a Cyber Security practice for a National Professional Services firm. Professor Nemia retired from Ernst & Young (EY) after thirty years of service. Throughout his career he has been responsible for developing and managing Advisory practices at the Local and National level. Professor Nemia has served accounts from startups to Fortune 500 companies in establishing and maintaining an effective financial and technology risk architecture as well as the supporting governance model. He has a deep background in IT Risk Assurance, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) as well as Financial and IT transformation. Professor Nemia supported his clients by developing strategies to establish, assess and review areas such as Cyber Security Architecture, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Program Management (IV&V), Acquisition services as well as Process enhancement and Control optimization. He has assisted existing as well as new issuers in establishing and maintaining their SOX 404 compliance strategy. He has also worked with financial institutions to prepare for regulatory reviews from the SEC, OCC and Federal Reserve 

At Bentley University, he serves as a faculty member in the Department of Accounting. Professor Nemia also serves as a part time faculty member at Boston College.