Meet Our Executive Leadership Team

David is Chief Executive Officer of Accume Partners. He has over 27 years of extensive experience in professional services including Advisory, Risk, Internal and External Audit, Compliance, Technology, Cybersecurity, and Financial Services. He also has a strong background in leading and managing global engagements on cybersecurity, privacy, vendor management and data governance. Dave serves international and domestic financial services clients in the areas of internal audit, regulatory compliance, risk management and IT readiness.

Prior to Accume, Dave spent his entire professional career with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP providing Internal Audit, External Audit, IT risk and Cybersecurity solutions to organizations to help protect their reputation. He assisted clients to assess, remediate and build their controls infrastructure, including their IT Risk and Cybersecurity functions. He led multiple engagement teams, including third party assurance related to various frameworks and managed Sarbanes-Oxley control testing. Dave presented to over 50 audit committees / boards / C-suites, worked with various sector regulators on specific audits and the FBI on various initiatives.

Throughout his career, Dave has served in a wide variety of leadership roles, including Risk Assurance Cybersecurity, Privacy and IT Risk Solutions Partner. Dave rose through the ranks and built PwC’s National IT Risk and Security Assurance practice from the ground up. He organized the strategy and vision for the initiative by building a cross-functional team and laid the foundation for the operational functions to ensure strategic growth. He worked with a broad variety of large and small financial institutions including banking and capital markets, asset management, insurance companies and other non-financial services sector clients.

Dave is a graduate of Ithaca College (B.S., Finance). Dave is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and HITRUST Certified.

Cindy is the Chief Operating Officer at Accume Partners. She has over 30 years of experience serving clients in the financial services industry. Cindy is recognized for her extensive knowledge of auditing standards, enterprise risk management practices, practical business operations experience and a collaborative approach to service delivery excellence. Cindy has written articles and contributed to several professional networks on topics including audit, controls, risk, fraud, compliance, forensic analysis, and talent. Cindy has served as a trusted advisor to Boards, Audit Committees, Executive Leadership and Government Agencies. She has contributed to the development of banking regulations and professional models for both domestic and international governing agencies.

Prior to joining Accume in December of 2016, Cindy held senior leadership positions with Citigroup, Deloitte LLP and JPMorgan Chase. Cindy is a graduate of St. John’s University, New York.

Sanjay is the US Risk & Regulatory Advisory Services Practice Leader for Accume Partners. He has 20+ years of professional services including internal audit, regulatory compliance, enterprise risk management, information technology, blockchain, business process enhancement, strategy and performance improvement. He’s worked with financial and non-financial institutions, insurance companies, non-profits, and regulators. He works directly with senior management including the Board, C-suite executives and Senior Management.

Prior to Accume, Sanjay was the Chief of Staff and a leader in PricewaterhouseCoopers Governance, Risk and Compliance Practice. In addition, he was the Risk Advisory Financial Services Practice Leader at BDO. He also previously worked for JPMorgan Chase and General Motors Asset Management.

He is a thought leader in topics such as internal audit, regulatory compliance, enterprise risk management, risk appetite, and various other hot topics affecting our clients’ ever changing needs.

Sanjay is a graduate of both the William E. Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester (MBA) and Niagara University (B.S., Management, Accounting, MIS).

As Managing Director of IT Risk and Compliance Services, Michael Barrack provides IT security and risk and compliance consulting services for community financial institution clients across the United States. With more than 25 years of serving community Banks in Southern California, Michael brings a keen understanding of how our clients use technology to support the business, and what the regulators expect of Banks and Credit Unions as it relates to IT- related compliance.

Having been the accountable Executive in IT regulatory examinations as both a banker and service provider to Banks and Credit Unions, he has the experience and insight to know how best to prepare for and respond to such exams, which the Risk and Compliance team has incorporated in its offerings and consulting services.

Previously, Barrack served as Chief Executive Officer at iPay Technologies, LLC, a Kentucky-based bill payment processing company where he led the company through a period of explosive growth, tripling revenue and increasing profitability and the client base of community banks and credit unions substantially. A veteran to the banking industry, Barrack has led technology and compliance efforts at financial institutions over the course of his career including East West Bank, where he served as Director of Information Systems, and Community Bank, in which he led the Information Technology Group as Chief Information Officer.

Barrack resides in Henderson, Nevada and holds a Masters of Business Administration at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his undergraduate degree at Carleton College, graduating Magna Cum Laude.

Michael is the Cybersecurity & Privacy Advisory Services Practice Leader for Accume Partners. He has 30+ years of professional experience in Advisory Services including, Cybersecurity Business & IT Risk Assessments, Cyber Threats and Incident Response, IT Infrastructure, Regulatory Compliance, Vendor & Third Party Due Diligence and Strategy Implementation. Michael’s worked with clients from all verticals, with a strong focus on financial services and asset management including; Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Banking, Real Estate and Insurance. He works directly with senior management including the Board, and C-suite executives.

Prior to Accume, Michael led the Cybersecurity and Data Protection Services at Cordium. Before Cordium Michael was a Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PWC’s) Advisory Practice leading Cybersecurity & Privacy engagements as part of the Financial Crimes Unit. Michael has also worked for financial services technology integrators, software development companies, and alternative investment firms.