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 over a decade, Debra has focused on Global Vendor Maintenance, and implemented a vendor self-registration portal for 140k+ global vendors across seven ERPs. In her consultancy, she focuses on authentication techniques,  internal controls and best practices to prevent fraud in the vendor master file.  She is the President of the Central Atlantic Region IOFM Chapter and the IOFM Ask the Expert for the Vendor Master File Category.  

A Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Debra works with vendor management teams to clean their vendor data and update their vendor processes so they pay the right vendor.

She has a YouTube channel where she posts vendor master file tips every Tuesday and hosts a weekly podcast:  “Putting the AP in hAPpy”.