THIRDLINE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Co - Founder
• Member of the Leadership Team

David co-founded ThirdLine because he felt firsthand the problem accountants face when too much data crashes an excel spreadsheet. Before ThirdLine, David worked at public accounting firms including BKD, LLP and HoganTaylor where he became a CPA. While working in the Advisory department, David picked up data analytics and ever since found his true calling.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Leadership Team
• Head of Analytics, Co - Founder

David masterminds all analytics to make sure they are continuously working and integrating with the ERP systems. David has worked as a developer at Oklahoma State University, an audit analyst at Williams Companies, and an analytics consulting professional.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisors and Partners Team
• Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, IL

Job Titles:

• Member of the Advisors and Partners Team
• Senior Advisor to

Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope is the Dr. Barry Jay Epstein Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Pope is a nationally recognized expert in risk, forensic accounting, and white-collar crime research, and an award-winning educator, researcher, author, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Pope teaches managerial and forensic accounting both at the undergraduate and graduate level. In 2020, the AICPA and the CPA Practice Advisor named Dr. Pope among the top 25 most powerful women in accounting. Her area of expertise lies in understanding and identifying financial fraud risk within financial statements, assessing corporate culture and compliance systems designed to confront internal control challenges. Pope's research on executive misconduct culminated in directing and producing the award-winning documentary, All the Queen's Horses which explores the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. Pope's TED Talk entitled "How Whistle-blowers Shape History" has been viewed over 1.6 million times, translated into 20 languages, and serves as a resource to help organizations and Pope is a frequent international speaker to numerous corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies. Pope has appeared on news outlets such as CNBC, the BBC, and WGN-TV offering commentary

Job Titles:

• Member of the Leadership Team
• Head of Data Science

Sam combines PhD statistical super-powers with knowledge of auditing to create powerful data science models based on our analytics. Previously he was the Audit Analytics Manager and Methodologist for the Denver Auditor's Office where he lead the Audit Analytics Team. Through his work as an engineer, social scientist, and analytics manager he has over 17 years of program and process evaluation experience using analytics. He has taught analytics courses to auditors around the world and served as part-time faculty at the University of Colorado Denver's School of Public Affairs where he taught graduate courses on Evidence-Based Decision Making, Research Methods and Statistics, and Policy Analysis.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Leadership Team
• Head of Software, Co - Founder

Holden is a full-stack software engineer and ensures that the software we build is loved by all users. Holden began his career as high school teacher with Tulsa Public Schools then joined the TPS data team and eventually led the software development team.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Leadership Team
• Head of Product, Co - Founder

Nathan ensures the ThirdLine product is exactly what auditors and management need to be successful. He has been an IT auditor and internal audit data analyst for 15+ years. Before co-founding ThirdLine, Nathan began his career as an auditor for the City of Tulsa where he worked on everything from the police armory to broken-neck giraffes. He then started the data analytics internal audit function at Williams Energy, a publicly traded oil and gas company, where he found vendor overbillings in the tens of millions.