Robert (Bob) E. Kress
Executive Director, Global IT Audit
Accenture
Robert Kress is the
Executive Director of Global IT Audit in Accenture’s Internal Audit
organization that supports the $25 billion company and its 250,000 employees
working in 52 countries. Reporting to Accenture’s Chief Audit Executive, Mr.
Kress has overall responsibility for identifying, evaluating, and reporting on
the full range of client facing and internal IT risk to Accenture senior
leadership and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Prior to this Mr. Kress was the COO in
Accenture’s high performance Internal IT organization responsible for running
IT like a business, including IT Strategy, IT Planning, Product and Service
Management, IT Risk, Application and Infrastructure Management Operations,
Supplier and Contract Management, Audit and IT Policy, Communications, Business
Performance, Finance, Human Resources, Deployable Resources and Organizational
Development.
He has
published two books, Running ITlike a Business, in November 2011, and ITGovernance to Drive High Performance: Lessons from Accenture, in
March 2010.
Bob is a
member of the Executives Club of Chicago and co-chair of the Technology
Committee, i.c.stars Board of Directors, Chicago Mayor’s Council of Technology
Advisors, and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the College of Engineering at
The University of Iowa.
Mr. Kress
holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and a
master of business administration degree from the University of Iowa.
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