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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES<br />

Abdullah Alawadhi, PhD<br />

Assistant Professor, Kuwait University<br />

Abdullah Alawadhi is an assistant professor in the College of Business<br />

Administration (CBA) at Kuwait University. He received his PhD from<br />

Rutgers University in 2015. His research interests include data<br />

visualization, audit analytics and big data. For four years he worked at<br />

the Continuous Auditing and Reporting Laboratory (CAR Lab) at<br />

Rutgers University, conducting many research oriented projects.<br />

Abdullah obtained his bachelor degree, majoring in Accounting, from<br />

Kuwait University in 2008. In 2011, he graduated from the University of<br />

Pittsburgh, Katz Business School, and obtained his Master of Science<br />

degree in Accounting. Abdullah presented in several conferences,<br />

including the 28th World Continuous Auditing and Reporting<br />

Symposium (28WCARS) and the American Accounting Association<br />

(AAA) 2014 Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting. In addition, he has several<br />

working papers on the area of audit analytics and data visualization.<br />

Brad Ames, CPA, CISA, CRMA<br />

Director, Internal Audit, Hewlett-Packard<br />

Company<br />

Brad Ames’s role involves close collaboration with Hewlett-Packard’s<br />

governance groups, compliance functions, customers and external<br />

auditors in order to gain an ongoing view of emerging risk<br />

enterprise-wide. His team is responsible for innovating and deploying<br />

continuous auditing solutions for measuring risk to the business and<br />

shortening the time to management action.<br />

Brad is an active CPA, certified information systems auditor (CISA), and<br />

holds a Certification in Risk Management Assurance ® (CRMA ® ). He has<br />

a bachelor of science from LeTourneau University and is a member of<br />

the AICPA and Institute of Internal Auditor’s Professional Issues<br />

Committee.<br />

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