Vendor Roundtable

OGVR Fall Roundtable

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Meet the Speakers

2020 ORBIE Houston CIO of the year and a Technology Thought Leader with over 25 years CIO experience. 

2020 ORBIE Houston CIO of the year and a Technology Thought Leader with over 25 years CIO experience. 

Chris Watkins has been a 

consultant at AMS-PAR for 10 years, leading audits 

on a wide variety of vendors 

mainly in the oil and gas and 

utilities sector.

Kevin Guy

Kevin serves as a Managing Director for Armanino LLP’s Risk Advisory Practice. He has approximately 24 years of experience in third party compliance, internal audit, process redesign, finance, and cost recovery initiatives. Kevin has an extensive background in assisting clients with assessing 3rd party risk, implementing compliance programs, and performing compliance assessments of suppliers across a wide range of industries with a particular focus in the Energy sector.  

Lee Steinke

Lee Steinke is an Energy Executive whose career has spanned Texaco, Williams, WPX Energy, and Discovery Natural Resources. She has overseen the management of vendor activity on large projects in a variety of regulatory jurisdictions. Lee holds an MS from Yale and an MBA from Wharton and chairs the Corporate Advisory Board for the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. 

Jason Mefford

Jason Mefford is a Rock Star in 

Internal Audit, Risk Management 

and Compliance. He is an 

executive coach that works with 

Chief Audit Executives, a thought 

leader, speaker and podcast host. He also serves as the CEO of cRisk Academy, the largest learning 

platform for internal auditors and as the President of Mefford 

Associates.

Markley Ward

Markley Ward is the Director of Contract Services for AMS-PAR.  He helps clients implement highly effective compliance programs, including supplier audits, accounts payable reviews, contract administration initiatives, and supply chain best practice implementations.  He has over 17 years’ experience helping some of the largest companies in the world implement contract compliance programs. 

Rob Ratchinsky

Rob Ratchinsky has an extremely unique background, growing up in parts of Canada, Europe, Africa and the US, before graduating from the University of Victoria in Canada. He began his career at Anadarko Petroleum, where he worked alongside portfolio, marketing, production and reserves teams. He left Anadarko to become the Vice President of Operations at Engage Management, a boutique consulting company for oil and gas operators. In 2016, he co-founded ENGAGE, a digital field management platform that allows operators to schedule, track, manage and approve their field transactions. He currently acts as the CEO of ENGAGE and has built the company into the market leader for digitizing the oilfield.

Olga Sirovatco

Olga Sirovatco is a Finance / Accounting management professional with expertise in vendor management in Europe and in the U.S.  She has earned her Accredited Petroleum Accountant Certification and is the technology chairperson for Colorado COPAS.  She currently works as an accounting manager at Whiting Petroleum.

Liz Frisby

Liz Frisby is the Sr. Account Manager for ENGAGE. She grew up and attended school in Tucson, Arizona
where she began her professional career in sales. Liz has over 12 years of account management and
sales experience in SaaS.

Chris Watkins

Chris Watkins has been a 

consultant at AMS-PAR for 10 years, leading audits on a wide variety of vendors mainly in the oil and gas and utilities sector.

Camille Gerard

Camille Gerard is the Principal at Risk Management Consulting, LLC an audit-based business consulting company serving various industries.  Camille has over 20 years of audit, accounting and operations experience, including 10 years as an oil and gas Controller, 6 years of SOX compliance management experience, and 4 years in energy derivatives, marketing and origination.  Camille holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and an MBA with a specialization in Internal Auditing from LSU.  She is a Certified Internal Auditor and a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas.

Marc Tasse

Mr. Tassé is an investigative and forensic accountant, who has experience as an independent special advisor to various board chairs and CEOs of corporations and organizations, on "high profile and sensitive cases” related to alleged corruption, fraud, financial misconduct, and breach of fiduciary duty. 

An award-winning lecturer at 

the University of Ottawa’s 

Faculty of Law and in the 

Executive MBA program at the 

Telfer School of Management, 

he delivers presentations at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement.  A sought-after media commentator, Mr. 

Tassé has been published extensively and quoted in various 

prestigious publications such as The Wall Street Journal.