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Speaker Profile : M.S.RAJ SECKHAR

Name of the Speaker

M.S.RAJ SECKHAR

Email Id's (more than one can be put here)

seksheel@eth.net

Contact phone including Mobile

+91 – 422 - 231 7757

+91 – 98422-77573

Communication Address

Mecheri Manor, No.2, S.R.Iyer Layout,

Near All India Radio, Ramanathapuram,

COIMBATORE - 641 045, SOUTH INDIA

Describe below in brief how you would like to be introduced:

Aged 39 years

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Course	Institution / University	Year
M.C.A.	Bharathiar University , Coimbatore	2003
CISA	Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)	2000
F.C.A.	The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India	1996
P.G.D. in Managerial Control & MIS	Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands	1994
P.G.D. in EDP & Computer Mgmt.	Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Coimbatore	1991
A.C.A.	The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India	1991
B.Com	Bharathiar University , Coimbatore	1986

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

Association / Institution

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)

Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) USA

LIFE MEMBER of Computer Society of India

LIFE MEMBER of The Auditors' Association of Southern India, Coimbatore

· Having a flair for teaching, presenting and sharing of ideas and knowledge, experiences and exposures.

· Partner, M/s. SEKHAR & SHEELA practising in Coimbatore as a Chartered Accountant for the past 14 years (1991-2005) in the areas of Information System Audits, Designing Control Systems and Procedures, Investigative audits, Internal Audits, Consulting in Corporate Governance and restructuring and Statutory Audits.

· Underwent Articleship with M/s Fraser & Ross, during 1986-89 and worked as an Audit Manager in the same firm during 1990-91.

· Associated with Ernst & Young International, Chartered Accountants, Riyadh , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 4 months during 1998 - 99.

· Presently President (2004-06) - Coimbatore Chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Vice President (2002-04).

· Secretary (1999-2001) - The Auditors' Association of Southern India, Coimbatore ;

· Treasurer of Rotary Club of Coimbatore Texcity - 1997-99. Active Rotarian during (1995-2000).

· Part-time Teaching Faculty for the past 3 years for the Information Systems Auditor (ISA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

· Widely travelled to the U.K, Germany , France , The Netherlands , other European countries, Japan , Middle East and South Asia for Education and Professional Assignments.

Topic: List only the session titles and organizers for whom you have spoken so far for the areas you will be interested to be a speaker in future. The idea of organizer is to identify speakers for CISA /CISM /COBIT, etc besides that required for Seminars, Conferences, Tutorials and Workshops. Also mention the number of occasion you have addressed this topic in the right (3^rd) column for each broad areas described in the left (1^st) column.

· Very much interested in sharing thoughts, ideas and my international experiences among the professionals.

Broad Areas

Session Title and for whom

Number of occasion spoken

IS Audit Skills

IT Governance

IT Security Governance

Industry centric

· E-Banking – Emerging Trends & Security Issues

The above topic was presented at the meeting organised by the Coimbatore ISACA Chapter and Local Institutions

Technology centric

Process centric – COBIT, Standards like BS7799,

Regulatory –

SOX, HIPAA, etc.

Others -

· Presented a paper at an Executive Program in Management at Bangkok during December 1994 - specialisation “Enterprise Restructuring and Privatisation: The Managerial Perspective”.

· Attended a 6 week Training Program on “Consultant Training for IT Solution Business” in Japan during Jan – Feb 2004 and presented case studies of experiences.