Michael P. Cangemi, CPAretired, CISAretired, is a former CEO serving on Boards, as Senior Advisor, author, speaker, and social media influencer. He has published 2 books and over 230 articles, and research papers. In his early career as a CPA he managed IT auditing regionally at EY and nationally at BDO, where he also founded the BDO Internal Audit Service practice. He went on to a wide-ranging business career serving as a CAE, CIO, CFO and then in two CEO positions, President, CEO, & Director of Etienne Aigner Group, Inc., and President, CEO & Director of Financial Executives International. In addition, he has served on many Boards and as AC Chair. He is a Senior Fellow at and serves on the Rutgers Continuous Auditing and Reporting Lab - Advisory Board since 1991.
Professionally active he has served on the boards of COSO, and the advisory boards of the FASB (USA) and IASB (London, UK), as well as, on many professional committees and the boards of ISACA (Board Chair 1986- and first-class inductee in ISACA Hall of Fame), IIA, IIARF and FEI. He served as Editor in Chief of the ISACA Journal (1987-2007) and served on FEI’s CFIT Fintech Committee (2004-2023) where he published several research papers. He is a life member of FEI, ISACA and the AICPA. He served as Associated Editor of EDPACS 1988-1994.
His experiences as a CAE were published in his second successful book, Managing the Audit Function. The second and third editions were published in 1996 and 2003 respectively. The book was featured in the business section of the Sunday New York Times in August 2002 and translated into Chinese in 2005 and Serbian in 2013. In 1991, Mr. Cangemi co-authored Auditing in an EDP Environment (Kaplan Financial Education). In 2000, The Cangemi Library was established at the University of Mississippi’s National EDP Auditing Archival Center to house his collection of over 250 books on Auditing and EDP Auditing and the ISACA IT Control Journals he Edited.
Mr. Cangemi now has a significant focus on his business interests and specifically governance, fintech, AI/Analytics and Blockchain DLs for GRC, Finance and Business Process Improvement. He is an investor in and serves as an advisor to Lukka Tech (Distributed Ledgers/Blockchain/Digital Assets); serves on the Citizens Bank NJ AB, and he is an investor in and periodic advisor to Solink Corp (Video & Contextual Analytics).
