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—Managing Partner of Corporate Governance

Trent is an audit partner and the partner-in-charge of corporate governance for Grant Thornton LLP. Trent’s experience includes auditing public and private companies and assisting an array of companies in the improvement and documentation of effective systems of internal control. He has also assisted large public companies in the development and execution of plans to restate their financial statements in the wake of internal control failures.

In addition to managing the Firm’s corporate governance practice, Trent serves as a key resource in training Grant Thornton personnel to audit internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with newly established auditing standards. He is one of four steering committee chairmen assisting in the development of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group’s framework for integrating governance, compliance, risk management and integrity into all business processes (www.oceg.org). Trent is also a member of the advisory board of the Enterprise Risk Management Initiative (www.mgt.ncsu.edu/erm) at NC State University’s College of Management.

Most recently, Trent was appointed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) board to lead a project to develop guidance regarding the effective monitoring of internal control in accordance with COSO’s Internal Control—Integrated Framework.

Trent is a frequent speaker at seminars, has authored several nationally and internationally published articles related to Sarbanes Oxley and corporate governance, and publishes Grant Thornton’s award-winning quarterly CorporateGovernor newsletter.

Education
Trent has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Masters of Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.