Debra is an Accounts Payable speaker, consultant, and trainer with over 20 years of experience in AP, AR, general ledger, and financial reporting for Fortune 500 companies including Verizon, General Motors, and Aramark.

For ten years, Debra has focused on Global Vendor Maintenance, and implemented a vendor self-registration portal for 140k+ global vendors across five ERPs. In her consultancy, she focuses on authentication techniques, internal controls and best practices to prevent fraud in the vendor master file.

Debra now focuses on helping accounts payable teams protect the vendor master file from fraud. She has a weekly blog and hosts a weekly podcast: “Putting the AP in hAPpy” and is the Co-President of the Central Atlantic Region IOFM Chapter.