Danny has over 12 years of audit experience in the Dallas Fort Worth area, including the last 5 as an Audit Director at 2 diverse companies. He has the rare experience of being an integral part/leading the Year 1 SOX Compliance efforts at 3 companies in the DFW area. Additionally, he has assisted in leading the establishment of three internal audit/SOX departments over the past 6 years.    

Prior to founding SOFT GRC, Danny was the Director of SOX Compliance and Corporate Audit at Dr Pepper Snapple Group, where he lead the Year One SOX Compliance efforts. Danny was promoted into the SOX role after being with the Company for four months as the Director of Corporate Audit. The initial control assessment totaled approximately 140 controls for a decentralized (geographically and system-wise) organization. Prior to his tenure at Dr Pepper, Danny started the internal audit department at Tyler Technologies, a publicly-traded technology company. Due to the limited size of the Internal Audit Department, Danny developed an innovative audit approach to help meet the needs of the Company on a limited budget. The SOFT Approach to Auditing (Internal Auditor, August 2007) performed SOX control testing, assisted in the external audit’s financial procedures, performed limited operational auditing and implemented CobiT standards simultaneously in the company with a team of three. 

Through this audit approach, Danny and his team identified many cost efficiencies, including a lack of global contracts with certain vendors. Danny was able to negotiate two contracts that saved the Company approximately $350k on spend of $1 million annually in office supplies and shipping costs.

Danny’s implementation of Auditing Standard No. 5 (AS 5) decreased the control count at Tyler by 40%, which also helped to decrease external audit fees. This approach was published (Internal Auditor, December 2007) and implemented by numerous companies. 

Prior to his experience at Tyler, Danny was also part of the Year One SOX Compliance team at Tenet Healthcare, where he assisted the end to end compliance efforts. Danny began his career at Arthur Andersen and is a graduate (BS – Accounting, 1997, MS – Finance, 1998) of Texas A&M University.

Mr. Goldberg has served on the board of directors of a non-profit organization, audit committee of a large independent school district in DFW and is currently on the audit committee of a non-profit organization. Danny currently serves on the Southwest region Board of the American Lung Association.

Danny is accredited as the professional commentator on the forthcoming publication (to be published Summer 2010), BNA Tax and Accounting Portfolio, Internal Auditing: Fundamental Principles (Accounting Policy and Practice Series). He has also recently published an article in Volume 6 of the ISACA Journal (December 2009) titled “Is it time to Automate SOX?”. 

Danny has spoken around the nation since 2007, including numerous IIA-sponsored events. He has spoken on a number of subjects over the past 3 years, from 1 hour lunch seminars to all day seminars (all speaking events has been sponsored and accredited as CPE hours). He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified in the Governance of Enterprise Information Technology and has obtained his Certification in Control Self-Assessment. He is married with a son and daughter and lives in Plano, Texas.