
Leech & Co GRC Inc. was established in April 2009. The firm’s primary goal is to help clients evaluate, improve and, when appropriate, reengineer risk and assurance processes, tools, and methods to better ensure business objectives are achieved within an acceptable level of retained risk.
Flagship services include evaluation of the effectiveness of enterprise risk and control management processes, completion of entity-level fraud risk assessments, SOX 404 cost optimization reviews, senior management and board training on risk and control oversight, internal audit reengineering, assistance with the implementation of integrated GRC, ERM and CRSA frameworks, and expert witness services related to officer/director due diligence litigation.
The firm’s principals Tim Leech and Parveen Gupta are recognized globally as GRC thought leaders, innovators and educators. They have successfully provided consulting and training services for clients in countries around the world. A partial list of clients Leech and Gupta have provided services for over the past 20 years is included in this section. Leech and Gupta have worked together on numerous articles, books and training initiatives including Sarbanes Oxley: A Practical Guide to Implementation Challenges and Global Response, the FEI publication Control Deficiency Reporting: Review and Analysis of Filings During 2004, IMA publications Accounting Control Assessment Standards: The Missing Piece in the Restatement Puzzle, A Global Perspective On Assessing Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and many others. More details on Tim and Parveen are also included in this section.