Meet Your Board Members

---

Kari is the principal private investigator and certified fraud examiner of her own firm, Overson Investigative Group LLC (OIG). She has over 26 years' experience as a federal agent conducting complex white collar investigations involving bank and loan fraud, SBA Program Fraud, bankruptcy fraud, contract fraud, money laundering, mortgage fraud,  and real estate fraud.  In private practice, her focus has been on these same specialties and conducting financial analyses for divorce cases, due diligence, and elder financial exploitation cases.

Contact: kari@oignw.com

Bob Holtfreter is the Distinguished Professor of Accounting & Research at Central Washington University and held the first Grant Thornton Distinguished Professorship at a prior university. 

For the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), Bob serves on their Advisory Council, the Editorial Board of the Fraud (FM) and the author of their “Taking Back the ID” Identity Theft/Cyber Security column. He has published eighty-seven issues of the column and thirty-one feature articles in the FM , both records. He has received the ACFE’s “Outstanding Achievement in Accounting” award (2005), the “Educator of the Year” award (2006) and the “Hubbard” research award (2017. He is considered by other leading academic and practitioners in the fraud area as the leading researcher in the world in the Identity theft/cybersecurity area. 

He has served on the Advisory Council of the White-Collar Crime Consortium and currently serves on the Accounting Council for the Gerson Lehrman Group - the largest independent Equity Research organization in the world -, where he serves as a paid consultant for their clients in the accounting, auditing, and fraud areas.  

He has been an invited speaker for numerous organizations, including the FBI”s Annual Fraud Summit. He also had a 2-hour presentation at one of the chapter’s annual fraud conferences and was a member of the chapter’s Outreach Committee. 

Bob has served or is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of over twenty journals, including many in the fraud area, and has published over 125 peer-reviewed journal articles in various journals.  

Bob has also served as President/Program Chair/Chairman of the Board of Directors for various national academic organizations and is the current President of the CWU Phi Kappa Phi chapter for the (PKP) National Honorary Society.  

He has also served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Yakima chapter of the Washington Society of CPA’s.  

Bob also served as the co-chair of the Budget Strategy Team for the city of Yakima and as the Chairman of three major committees/task forces for the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDF&W). Including the ACFE awards, Bob has received over twenty major university, State and national awards and honors for teaching, leadership/service, and research.  

 Joe Boynton, CFE is a federal agent with nine years of experience investigating injured workers compensation, medical provider, unemployment, and financial fraud schemes. Joe as reserves as a military investigator conducting felony level crimes involving military members. Joe has a total of 17 years of law enforcement experience spanning federal, military, and local law enforcement. Prior to starting a career in law enforcement, Joe honorably served nine year active duty in the US Navy participating in Operation Southern Watch and Enduring Freedom.   

Robert Goehring, CFE, CPA serves as City Auditor for the City of Kent, WA.   Internal Audit is responsible for internal audit functions designed to:  Provide reasonable assurance regarding the protection of City assets from waste, theft and abuse and City compliance with relevant City, state and federal financial laws and regulations; and external audit and monitoring functions designed to provide reasonable assurance that selected tax revenues due to the City are properly calculated, supported and remitted to the City timely and intact.  Previously, Robert served 15 years with the Washington State Auditor’s Office, including three years with Special Investigations.  His experience also includes serving in the nuclear power industry in the Tri-Cities, WA.  Robert has served on the Chapter Board of Officers since 2003, including six years as President. 

Mike is a principal serving businesses in the professional services, not-for-profit and governmental industries. Mike is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and has a certificate in COSO Internal Control Framework. He has over 17 years of proven outstanding client service, and he has held positions in both the private and public accounting industries.  His practice emphasis is in fraud and forensic accounting, internal control development and COSO risk assessments, performance audits and policy and procedure development.