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Cess has 10+ years of Internal Audit, SOX Compliance, Information Technology / IT Audit, Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC), and Cybersecurity experience and served a variety of industries in the SF Bay Area and Texas (Technology, Semicon, FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Service, Energy, Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Non-Profit, and Government). Prior to this, she has almost 10 years of experience in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) project management, technical help desk management and program management in credit card payments and enterprise productivity applications. She has worked for global, publicly traded, highly regulated clients across North and South America, EMEA and APAC. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the Philippines. She is a Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA) and have certificates in CSX-F and Cybersecurity Audit.