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Kim Le, CPA &
CIA
Founder & CEO
Kim Le founded A2Q2 in order to combine her passion for superior service with her consulting and audit experience. She takes a hands-on approach, building and maintaining personal connections with her clients so she can craft and deliver the best possible solution for their unique situations. She approaches each engagement with a view to building a long-term relationship as well as delivering high-quality work.
Kim Le, CPA &
CIA
Founder & CEO
Kim founded A2Q2 in order to combine her passion for superior service with her consulting and audit experience. She takes a hands-on approach, building and maintaining personal connections with her clients so she can craft and deliver the best possible solution for their unique situations. She approaches each engagement with a view to building a long-term relationship as well as delivering high-quality work.
Kim has over 15 years of accounting, auditing and consulting experience.
Kim has led Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance initiatives, financial
statement audits, internal audits, special accounting and process
re-engineering projects, initial public offerings, revenue recognition,
Securities Exchange Commission reporting projects, and mergers and
acquisition due diligence and integration. She has experience with
technology, software, telecommunications, digital media, life sciences,
distribution, not-for-profit and higher education industries. Her
clients have included Ariba, Art.com, Autonomy, CNET Networks, Good
Technology, Intuit, JDSU, Leapfrog, Motorola, Neoforma, Plumtree,
Siebel Systems and Versant.
Kim is also a software developer. She developed and trademarked SoxRox®, a web-based, software-as-a-service application used to efficiently plan, document, test and report Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.
Prior to A2Q2, Kim was a senior manager at Protiviti, where she led internal audit and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance engagements. Before that, she spent eight years in public accounting with Arthur Andersen, specializing in auditing financial statements and assisting companies with initial public offerings, revenue recognition, SEC reporting projects, and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.
Kim led SOX compliance initiatives ranging from project management to process documentation to testing control effectiveness to monitoring remediation. Kim's internal audit and process improvement experience included conducting and managing audits of payroll processing, order-to-cash processes, procure-to-pay processes, inventory management, and revenue recognition for high-tech companies. She has financial statement audit experience in the software, telecommunications, hospitality, distribution, and higher education industries.
Kim earned a Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) in accounting from Arizona State University. She is a certified public accountant in the states of Arizona and California and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), California Society of CPA, and Institute of Internal Auditors (the IIA). Kim is also an Certified Internal Auditor.
Kim serves on the board of Astra Women’s Business Alliance, a regional partner organization to Women Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) helping women-owned businesses meeting the criteria outlined by WBENC became certified. She is also on the Audit Committee of Lincoln Child Center, an Oakland-based not-for-profit organization helping at-risk families and children.
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Liem Tran
CTO
Liem has spent his career in information technology. His specialty is end-user and business
operations support. He has managed several large nationwide programs in support of end-user
computing operations, coordinating with international teams to test and improve end-user computing
initiatives such as imaging, hardware and software specifications, processes, and needs analysis.
In His Own Words
This is the Malaysian refugee camp
where I spent part of my childhood. |
I was born in Vietnam. In 1979, my mother took my grandmother, my sister, and me to a Malaysian
refugee camp. We spent two years there before immigrating to San Jose, CA.
I spent five years in the United States Army, including a tour of duty in Kuwait in the time leading up
to the first Gulf War. My service in the Army provides me with the unconventional perspective I bring
to business: setting high goals, thinking big, solving unstructured problems under pressure, building
efficiency into processes, and creating a team that works towards a shared vision. I have
experienced ordinary people doing extraordinary things because they believed in a common good.
While I value my time in the Army greatly, I continue to question authority and the status quo.
Whenever someone says "It can't be done," I start thinking of how it can be done.
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Kathy Yang
Director
Kathy manages accounting and audit projects for
corporate clients. Prior to working at A2Q2, she served as Director
of Finance at Business for Social Responsibility, a nonprofit organization
that helps companies design and implement successful, socially responsible
business policies, practices, and processes. She has also worked
as a finance manager and in internal audit at Cisco Systems and
a business process consultant with Arthur Andersen.
Kathy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and a
Master of Arts in Professional Accounting from the University of
Texas at Austin. Kathy also serves on the boards of two Bay Area
nonprofits, the Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture
and Marin Organic.
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Carmelita Oguro
Senior Technology Manager
Carmelita has worked with technology from the ground up. As an applications developer, she built
and supported custom database web applications. As an IT Project Manager, she led successful
implementations of hosted (ASP) and enterprise software. At A2Q2, she puts her technical
knowledge, training, and business acumen to work every day.
She has hands-on experience in applying technology to support the business processes of software
and retail companies, including Plumtree Software, BEA Systems, and Sephora.com. She led
Plumtree's IT portion of the SOX audit in its first years. While there, she also deployed a BPM-based
contracts management system, later implementing the Omniture web analytics solution. Throughout
her professional experiences, she has been responsible for the delivery of technology projects of
increasing complexity and risk.
Carmelita holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of the Pacific, and an MBA
from San Francisco State University. She is also a six sigma black belt.
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Michael Chan, CPA
Manager
Michael has over 10 years of experience in accounting, auditing, consulting and marketing.
His main focuses are Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, enterprise resource planning and marketing / sales. His industry experiences include service, manufacturing, semiconductor, software, pharmaceutical, utility and insurance.
Michael is experienced in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance projects. He has prepared detailed scoping memos and project plans. He conducted risk assessments to identify financial reporting risks in business and IT processes. He has documented policies and procedures, processes and controls through process narratives and flowcharts. He has developed audit work plans, performed walkthrough and testing of controls in all accounting processes. He performed deficiency analyses and developed remediation plans.
Michael is also experienced in enterprise resource planning for accounting systems, including NetSuite, PeopleSoft and Oracle. He designed to-be business process flows to ensure the incorporation of efficient and effective internal controls. He analyzed business and system requirements and designed system configurations and customizations that satisfied both parent company requirement and local reporting needs. He has managed implementation projects from start to end, including requirement gathering, designing, configuration, testing and training.
Before joining A2Q2, Michael was an Experienced Senior Consultant at Protiviti and a supervisor at Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Company.
Michael earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a certified public accountant in the state of California.
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Our Team of Professionals
We have assembled a team of highly experienced, trained, and motivated professionals. Our professionals are dedicated to providing exceptional service, and our collectively strong language skills in Finnish, German, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, and Vietnamese enable us to support global companies effectively.
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