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| ==Corporate Experience== | | ==Corporate Experience== |
− | Sophia began her career working with fortune 500 companies including large banking institutions, such as: Bank of America, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, the Union Bank of California and PriceWaterhouseCoopers consulting. Her corporate career involved consultant work with multinational firms, technology risk assessment, computer quality assurance, and project management.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Bekele, Sophia Bekele Wikipedia]</ref> | + | Sophia began her career working for multinational institutions in large financial/banking companies in Corporate America such as Bank of America, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi/Union Bank of California, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, to mention but a few; as well as building various start-ups with international business portfolios. |
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| + | Most of Ms. Bekele's work here is characterized with overseeing the control and security activities for technologies, auditing computer IT systems, evaluated new product & system services and recommending cost effective solutions, project Management, client relationship, operational and business risk assessment, business process re-engineering, writing recommendation reports to Executive Management for operational improvements and corporate good governance.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Bekele, Sophia Bekele Wikipedia]</ref> |
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| ===CBS International=== | | ===CBS International=== |
− | Ms. Bekele founded [[CBS International]]; a private Corporation with the goal of supporting technology in organizations working in emerging markets. Their self-described mission is to: "Utilize our experience in consulting services in sales, software training , and provide our clients with a total systems solutions to help lower their cost and maximize efficiency in the delivery of quality products and services". It is based near Silicon Valley, California.<ref>[http://cbsegroup.com/main.html?src=%2F85001%2F88022.html#1,0 CBS International]</ref> | + | Ms. Bekele founded [[CBS International]]; a private Corporation with the goal of supporting technology in organizations working in emerging markets. Their self-described mission is to: "Utilize our experience in consulting services in sales, software training , and provide our clients with a total systems solutions to help lower their cost and maximize efficiency in the delivery of quality products and services". It is based near Silicon Valley, California. |
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| + | Currently, Ms. Bekele and her company assist various Clients in public/private markets, primarily in corporate risk governance, including the recent Sarbanes-Oxley , GAAP & PCAOB and IT governance. Internationally, Sophia also consults on Milennium Challenge issues including anti-corruption, democratic governance, free market economics, and the development of internet and ICT infrastruture and regulatory policy. <ref>[http://cbsegroup.com/main.html?src=%2F85001%2F88022.html#1,0 CBS International]</ref> |
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| ===Other Endeavors === | | ===Other Endeavors === |