John Fraser is the Vice President, Internal Audit, and Chief
Risk Officer of Hydro One Networks Inc. He is an Ontario and
Canadian Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Association of
Chartered Certified Accountants U.K., a Certified Internal
Auditor, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. Fraser has
more than 30 years'' experience in the risk and control field,
mostly in the financial services sector. He is currently the Chair
of the Advisory Committee of the Conference Board of Canada''s
Strategic Risk Council and a Practitioner Associate Editor of the
Journal of Applied Finance. Betty J. Simkins, PhD, is the Williams
Companies Professor of Business and Professor of Finance at
Oklahoma State University. She has published more than 40 journal
articles and book chapters. Many of these articles are on the
topics of risk management and enterprise risk management. Simkins
is also active in the finance profession and currently serves on
the board of directors for the Financial Management Association, as
co-editor of the Journal of Applied Finance, as Executive Editor of
FMA Online, and as past president of the Eastern Finance
Association. Prior to entering academia, she worked for
ConocoPhillips and Williams Companies.