Three new members join the ACFE Board of Regents for 2022-2023 term

CFEs elected three new members to the ACFE Board of Regents for the 2022-2023 term. The new members, Wendy Evans, CFE; Collins Wanderi, CFE; and Chrysti Ziegler, CFE, took their oaths of office during the board’s meeting in February 2022. ACFE Regents, who serve two-year terms, oversee admission of new CFEs, determine CFE examination standards, establish Continuing Professional Education (CPE) requirements and enforce the CFE Code of Professional Ethics. Board elections are held every year to fill vacant positions. 

Wendy Evans, CFE

Senior manager, ethics core programs and services

Lockheed Martin

Wendy Evans started her career in law enforcement, first as a police officer in Louisville, Kentucky, for eight years, then as an FBI agent in the Tampa Division (Orlando Resident Agency), where she specialized in white-collar crime and counterintelligence. In 2006, she joined aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin as a security manager and became part of the company’s ethics and enterprise assurance organization in 2010.

She currently serves as senior manager for Lockheed Martin’s ethics and assurance organization where she’s responsible for ethics officer training, resource development and case management. She also conducts special investigations on behalf of the senior vice president of ethics and business conduct at the company’s corporate headquarters.

Evans serves as an instructor for the Society of Corporate Ethics and Compliance’s virtual academies. She’s also a member of the Ethics and Compliance Initiative and has been a national speaker on ethics, compliance, security and investigative topics.

Collins Wanderi, CFE

Forensic auditor, financial and tax crime prosecutor, fraud examiner and security intelligence analyst

Collins Wanderi & Company

Collins Wanderi, a trained military officer with the rank of captain, is the chairperson and founder of ACFE’s Kenya Chapter. He’s been a senior eligibility officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; a prosecutor in the Kenya Defense Forces; and the ethics and anti-corruption commission, forensics, and litigation services manager at consulting firm KPMG Kenya.

He helmed internal affairs at the Kenya Revenue Authority’s prosecution unit — asset recovery, evidence analysis and dispute resolution. He was also chairperson on the capacity-building committee of the East African Revenue Authorities Tax Investigations Forum and the resource person for the OECD Tax Crimes for Africa.

Wanderi has professional qualifications and experience in cyber forensics and counterterrorism, seizure of crypto assets and currencies, military science, leadership and command, security and crime investigations, intelligence gathering, analysis and production, strategic leadership development, and coaching and mentoring.

Chrysti Ziegler, CFE

Chief audit executive

CITGO Petroleum Corporation

Chrysti Ziegler, chief audit executive at CITGO, started her 24-year career in internal audit at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Houston, Texas. She then joined utility company NiSource Inc. before moving to energy provider Genesis Energy L.P. She started her current role with CITGO in October 2019.

Ziegler has done stints as the Houston ACFE Chapter president (2016-2020) and vice president (2014-2016). She also serves on the ACFE Scholarship Committee and is an active member of the ACFE’s Women in the Anti-Fraud Profession community. Ziegler was a founding member of the ACFE Chapter Leaders Committee in 2017. She’s been featured in Fraud Magazine (see “I’m a CFE,” by Dick Carozza, CFE, March/April 2021) and Hispanic Executive Magazine (see “Chrysti Ziegler Takes Time for Internal Auditing,” by Billy Yost, Hispanic Executive Magazine, Nov. 11, 2019.)