Bill Schlegel

Vice Chair and MIS Board Member since 2010. EAB member since 2018.

Bill received his BBA from Ohio University with a degree in Management Information Systems with a concentration in Accounting. He began his career in public accounting working for Deloitte & Touche in Pittsburgh, PA. After 2 years with Deloitte, Bill took a position with EY. Today Bill is an Executive Director in the Pittsburgh office of EY overseeing the Risk Assurance practice for the firm’s Pittsburgh and Charleston, WV offices. He is a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) and Certified Risk Professional (CRP). Bill has over 22 years of IT audit and advisory services related experience in a wide range of industries such as health care, financial services/banking, retail, consumer products and manufacturing, real estate, entertainment, and aerospace/defense. His technical experience includes topics such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) application integrity controls, cybersecurity, data analytics, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, and service organization controls (SOC) reporting. Some of his clients are LBrands, AKSteel, Bayer, American Eagle, UPMC Health System, and Westinghouse Electric Company.

Education

BBA, Ohio University

Professional Experience

Bill Schlegel earned his BBA in MIS, with honors, from the Ohio University College of Business in 1993. He holds two professional certifications: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Risk Professional (CRP).

While attending Ohio University, Bill was a member of the Delta Sigma Pi professional business fraternity and active in various MIS related clubs at the time. He was also a member of the NCAA wrestling team and participated for his freshman season as a red-shirt on partial scholarship.

Upon graduation from OU, Bill joined Deloitte & Touche LLP as a consultant in their Computer Assurance Services practice in Pittsburgh, PA. He left Deloitte after two years to join Ernst & Young LLP as a Senior in their newly forming global Information Systems Advisory and Audit Services practice in 1995.

Bill has held many positions and responsibilities with EY over the years before being promoted to Executive Director in 2006. He has extensive experience in advising his clients in many areas of IT, including but not limited to cybersecurity, privacy/GDPR, IT governance (policy and procedure), auditing, information security and IT strategic planning. His career-long focus has been on assisting his clients with systems and application auditing and advisory services.

Bill routinely gives presentations in the market and conducts training and workshops on the topic of IT internal controls to audiences such as EY staff, the Pittsburgh chapters of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), as well as to local colleges, universities and to clients.

Bill has been the Campus Coordinating Partner for EY to Ohio University since 2010. In this role he has been an active supporter of Ohio University. He routinely presents in the classroom on campus and has facilitated tours at EY to the OU COB Business MIS and Select Leaders programs, and recruits interns and graduating seniors from the COB.

Along with being an active member of the EAB, he is the current Chair of the COB AIS Advisory Board and has been an active member of that Board since 2010.

Bill and his wife Ivy currently live in Mars, Pennsylvania, with their many children.