Lt. Col. Robert Blair is the branch chief for financial plans and policy under Gen. David Petraeus at U.S. Central Command. He is the senior Air Force representative for funding support of $30 billion for U.S. and coalition efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

He graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor of science in business management in 1986, and the University of Oklahoma with a master of psychology (magna cum laude) in 1993. In his 23 years of experience in the Air Force, he has worked as a budget, finance, and cost analysis branch chief; as a comptroller; and as a fraud investigator for the U.S. Defense Finance and Accounting Service (the accounting firm for the Department of Defense).

Before his current position, he was the deputy inspector general for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the eighth-largest U.S. retailer with 45,000 employees, at which he worked on fraud, waste, and abuse issues.

Blair earned his Certified Government Financial Manager certification in 1995 and his Certified Fraud Examiner credential in 2001. He has had the opportunity to deploy multiple times in support of USAF combat activities to include Sarajevo, Bosnia and Southwest Asia. His 37 military awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal.

Jenny Nunn Brawley is the associate director of mortgage fraud investigations at Freddie Mac. Prior to that, she was with Arthur Andersen's Business Fraud Risk Services Group in Chicago and with the Resolution Trust Corporation's Office of Investigations in Dallas and later in Washington, D.C.

At Freddie Mac, she specializes in the prevention, investigation, and resolution of complex mortgage fraud schemes and works closely with federal, state, and local law enforcement and regulators in the prosecution of mortgage fraud cases.

Brawley is an expert in investigating and analyzing mortgage fraud cases and is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences geared for mortgage-industry professionals and law enforcement. She has been a frequent presenter and educator throughout her career at numerous local and national ACFE events. Brawley is recognized as an early pioneer in the art of commercial online database searches for locating hidden assets and illicit proceeds.

Brawley has been a CFE since 1994 and is an ACFE faculty member. She received a bachelor of science in criminal justice from the University of Texas at Arlington. In her spare time, she competes in canine freestyle musical dancing with her dog and is a certified pet dog trainer.

Cynthia Cooper is CEO of The CooperGroup, LLC, a firm that provides professional services including fraud prevention and detection. She has more than 20 years of diversified corporate and consulting experience. At MCI, she helped the company move forward and successfully emerge from bankruptcy.

Cooper is the recipient of the American Accounting Association's Accounting Exemplar Award bestowed for contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education. Along with Sen. Paul Sarbanes and Rep. Michael Oxley, she received the Maria and Sidney E. Rolfe Award by the Women's Economic Round Table for contributions to educating the public about economics, business, and finance. Cooper was named one of TIME magazine's Persons of the Year for her role in uncovering the WorldCom fraud. She was inducted to the AICPA Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was featured as one of 25 influential working mothers in Working Mother magazine.

Cooper served as a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. She previously worked in public accounting for Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Cooper is author of "Extraordinary Circumstances." She has donated profits from her book to further ethics education for college students. Cooper serves on advisory boards for Lehigh University, Louisiana State University, and Mississippi State University.

Paul Donnelly is head of internal controls leading the global Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) NI-52-109 implementation (a Canadian law similar to the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act) at Canadian-based Bombardier Group Transportation, located in Berlin, Germany. His responsibilities include the coordination of overall internal controls compliance, management of quality assurance, training and guidance, and identification of finance improvements.

Donnelly spent nine years with a Big Four accounting firm and another five years in management consultancy in various international locations; he specialized in the prevention and detection of fraud, misappropriation of assets, conflicts of interest, accounting irregularities, and occupational misconduct. He's actively involved in the examination of management and organizational integrity (adherence to codes of conduct and compliance regulations).

Donnelly has coordinated and led a large number of national and international fraud investigations and gained a wealth of experience in the development and implementation of fraud awareness programs, tools, and methodologies within large international corporations. Born in London, UK, Donnelly lives with his wife and 8-year-old son in Berlin, Germany. He's a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK.

Donnelly said he's confident he would provide new positive input to strengthen the ACFE Board of Regents' already high-quality standards and add value to the educational activities of all members.

Vicki Fischer is the deputy inspector general for the Enforcement Division of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission - Office of Inspector General. She has more than 24 years of experience in the investigative and enforcement arena. In the last 13 years she has fought against health-care fraud, waste, and abuse in the Texas Medicaid program and other public-assistance programs.

Fischer supervises all administrative and criminal investigations and related enforcement activities for one of the largest state inspector general's offices in the nation. The investigations she oversees involve allegations of wrongdoing in Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) Commission programs including providers, beneficiaries, and HHS employees. These investigative efforts lead to criminal convictions, administrative sanctions, and civil monetary penalties.

Fischer has been associated with the ACFE since 2002 and has been a CFE since 2006. She's also a Certified Inspector General (CIG) and sits on the board of directors of the Association of Inspectors General. Fischer has also earned the designation of Certified Public Manager (CPM) by the American Academy of Certified Public Managers.

A native Texan, Fischer is a graduate of Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, with a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice.

Joseph L. Ford retired last year as the No. 3 ranking official in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation - associate deputy director. He's now the chief security officer for the Bank of the West, at which he supervises fraud investigations and security matters for the $62 billion institution.

During his 30-year FBI career, Ford led the investigations of many major fraud cases including Enron and Arthur Andersen. He helped author anti-fraud legislation and developed the FBI's national program in combating health-care fraud. Ford was the lead official in the Columbia/HCA health-care fraud, which resulted in convictions and a record $1.6 billion in criminal and civil fines and penalties. He was also the chief of the FBI's Economic Crimes program.

Ford led the FBI's fraud investigation of National Medical Enterprises, which resulted in guilty pleas and fines of $379 million. Following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he helped form a team focusing on developing financial evidence related to fraud and money laundering by international terrorists. Ford is the recipient of the Director's Award for Excellence in Investigation, the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service, and the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service.

William L. "Bill" McBee is chief compliance officer and director of investigative services for Provider Resources Inc., a federal contracting entity specializing in health-care fraud, compliance, program integrity, medical policy, and health-care education.

A licensed private investigator, McBee received his Certified Fraud Examiner credential in 1997. He enjoys active membership in the ACFE Knoxville Chapter and frequently speaks at national compliance conferences on federal investigations and prosecutions of health-care frauds.

McBee has 30 years of extensive experience as a senior special agent who worked for state and federal law enforcement agencies investigating complex fraud and other major crime cases that have led to numerous successful prosecutions in multiple jurisdictions. Also, the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority Office of Inspector General assigned McBee to the Health Care Fraud Task Force of the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Tennessee, for seven of those 30 years of service.

He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor of science in business administration (accounting), and is also a graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (U.S. Treasury Department) and the FBI National Academy (U.S. Department of Justice). McBee, who is an honorably discharged veteran of the U.S. Army, served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970.

Janette Palubicki is a forensic accountant who has worked in claims for RSA Insurance Group in the UK since she joined the firm in 2001. She works on business interruption and fidelity guarantee claims and assists in the investigation of possible fraudulent claims.

Palubicki previously had worked for 10 years with the Serious Fraud Office at which she investigated and prosecuted serious and complex fraud with a team of lawyers, accountants, and police officers. She has a wealth of experience in conducting examinations, reviewing material, and evidencing money trails, which has led to the prosecution of criminal matters. She has testified and provided evidence in court for numerous cases.

Palubicki joined the UK ACFE Chapter in 1994 at its London Conference and became heavily involved. She has been the secretary of the UK ACFE Chapter for the past six years. Palubicki has also served a term on the European ACFE Committee and spoke at the ACFE European Conference in Prague in 1999.

Palubicki qualified as a chartered accountant with RSM Robson Rhodes - one of the top 20 accounting firms in the UK - in 1986 after passing her Solicitors Final Examinations in 1983. In 1982, she obtained a 2(1) honours degree (or upper second degree) in law. Today, she's involved in raising funds for cancer research and various animal charities.

Colin Parcher is the executive director, investigative services with the Financial Institutions Commission (FICOM) in British Columbia, Canada - a Category II law-enforcement unit that investigates specific criminal matters and conducts regulatory and criminal investigations throughout the province.

Parcher joined FICOM in 1997 after nearly 23 years of municipal policing in British Columbia and Ontario. He oversees FICOM's investigations department and conducts major investigations that typically lead to criminal prosecution or regulatory action.

He has taught at the community college level in a police sciences program and lectures on fraud-related subjects throughout North America to law enforcement, regulatory bodies, and industry groups. He's also a speaker at ACFE national and Canadian conferences, and at training sessions sponsored by chapters of the ACFE and the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Parcher is in his fourth year as president of the ACFE Vancouver Chapter. During his tenure, the chapter's membership has increased by more than 50 percent and the chapter has won three national awards: Newsletter of the Year in 2007 and 2009 and Chapter of the Year in 2008. He fosters mutual cooperation relationships among other ACFE chapters and promotes and supports their events.