Employee Benefit Plans Audit Virtual Conference | 1000002256

Jasmine S. Baker, CPA Jasmine is a Partner at Lindquist LLP, in the San Ramon, California, office. She has over 15 years of specialized experience providing audit and accounting services to employee benefit plans and labor organizations. Her experience includes auditing single-employer and multi-employer plans, including defined contribution plans, defined benefit pension plans, and health and welfare plans. Jasmine excels at both client engagements and behind-the-scenes projects. She serves...

Darlene Bayardo, the founder of Bayardo Accounting and Consulting, PC, has more than 25 years of experience with national public accounting firms and private accounting. She has extensive knowledge in the audits of employee benefit plans. She focuses on ERISA audit quality and risk management. Her expertise facilitates technical consultations, development of audit and accounting guidance, resources and training programs for employee benefit plan auditors, industry development communications, ...

Marilee Lau provides consulting services and teaches various educational programs on accounting and auditing for employee benefit plans. She assists audit firms specializing in employee benefit plans by providing technical support and performing internal reviews of their EBP audit practices. Before retiring in 2009, Lau was the national partner in charge of KPMG’s employee benefit plan audit practice. Lau is a founding member and a former chair of the AICPA Employee Benefit Plan Audit Qualit...

Lynne McMennamin is the Assistant Chief of the Division of Reporting Compliance (DRC) in EBSA’s Office of the Chief Accountant (OCA). Prior to this she was an acting Senior Reporting Compliance Specialist in the DRC and an Auditor in the Division of Accounting Services in the OCA. Before joining the Department of Labor in 2013, Lynne worked in public accounting, specializing in Employee Benefit Plans, for over 20 years, including 10 years as a partner in an international accounting firm. Lynn...

Bertha Minnihan has been in public accounting since 1995 and serves as the national practice leader for Moss Adams’ employee benefit plan audit group. She has extensive experience directing all phases of audits for a variety of benefit plans including 401(k), 403(b), pension, employee stock ownership, and health and welfare benefit plans. She has also worked with a number of 11-k clients. Her ERISA expertise includes the specialized knowledge required for audits, Form 5500s and related filing...

Mark Wirth has more than 30 years of experience with audits of employee benefit plans and is the West Region leader for the employee benefit plan assurance practice at RSM US LLP. He is involved in developing and presenting training programs both internally for RSM and for the AICPA. In addition to his vast experience with audits of 401k plans, profit sharing plans and defined benefit plans, Wirth has significant experience in auditing ESOPs and companies with ESOPs. He also consults with cli...