Risk Is Increasing — and Risk Management Is Evolving

BRUCE SHEPARD is currently an assistant professor of accounting at George Fox University and an adjunct professor of accounting at the University of Oregon and Portland State University. From 2006-2010, Mr. Shepard was the CFO of Las Vegas Gaming, Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he had full management responsibility for all financial affairs, daily business operations, administration and human resources. From 1985-2006, Mr. Shepard was in charge of the Middle Market Practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in Portland, Oregon, where he served as an Assurance Partner from 1989-2006 focusing on providing proactive business advisory services to fast growing companies. Mr. Shepard wrote an article, Financing Entrepreneurs, in 1999 for the Oregon Society of CPAs. Mr. Shepard was awarded "Beta Alpha Psi Professional of the Year" in 2006 for sustained involvement with the University of Oregon.