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Greg Duckert is the Founder of Virtual Governance Institute LLC and is a Senior Consultant for MIS Training Institute. Mr. Duckert is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Enterprise Risk management. He is the author of the Wiley publication Practical Enterprise Risk Management: A Business Process Approach. He is Certified in Risk Management Assurance, Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control, a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Information Systems Auditor, and is a Certified Internal Auditor. Mr. Duckert was educated at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and obtained an MBA in Accounting in 1989, a BBA in Accounting in 1978, and a BA in Economics in 1971. He specializes in consulting with major organizations regarding progressive Twenty-First Century methodologies for the construction of data centric enterprise risk assessment and management models including Financial, Operational, Regulatory, and IT areas of concern that yield high business value. He also consults with his clients in all areas of ERM, as well as auditing including continuous audit / consulting platforms.

Mr. Duckert is the sole developer and owner of a proprietary approach to risk assessment and management that is applied to both ERM and to enterprise risk data centric risk methodologies for Internal Auditing for organizations of all sizes. During 2012 he worked closely with the General Director - Global Automotive Audit & International Dealer Audit and the General Auditor and Chief Risk Officer of General Motors Corporation in transitioning to his proprietary audit approach known as ORCA™ (Outcome-Risk Centric Auditing). He is currently under contract with a major organization with revenues exceeding the multi-billion $ threshold to build risk based audit and ERM data centric models using his proprietary approaches. In addition, in depth hands on consulting is also performed in the areas of operational analysis and process improvement methodologies. He has developed extensive risk assessment metric inventories for evaluating risks in all organizational areas including operations, IT application systems, IT operations, regulatory and financial areas. Mr. Duckert has addressed the Permanent Undersecretary for Military Affairs of Parliament and the Defense Audit Board of the Ministry of Defense – United Kingdom on the subject matter of creating a risk based business approach to governmental oversight. He is involved in the building of or consulting on the creation of Data Centric Risk Assessment and Management models on an ongoing basis. He conducts seminars and workshops on a global basis and is a frequent speaker at conferences in his areas of expertise.

Mr. Duckert has been engaged in the professional practice of Internal Auditing and Risk Assessment and Management for over 35 years. He founded the Internal Audit function of a Fortune 500 corporation at the age of 27 and built the audit department from non-existence to a highly competent Financial, Operational, Information Technology and Regulatory audit div class="aboutText". He was also the General Auditor and Chief Audit Executive at two other major organizations. The audit positions were in the Manufacturing and Health Care industries. His work in Risk Assessment and Management spans virtually all key industry types.