RSM has named Kevin Carpenter as the leader of security due diligence within the firm’s transaction advisory services practice. Carpenter is moving to the new role from the RSM's risk consulting practice.
Carpenter will work with client mitigate risk and ensure compliance around data security and privacy, both before and during a transaction “He will continue to educate the firm’s clients on the value of cybersecurity during diligence as well as post-close,” RSM said in its announcement.
Carpenter has been with RSM since October 2011. Before that, he was worked at Deloitte & Touche for six years four months.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind