Joseph Eve

Joseph Eve, CPA, CFE, is the Managing Partner of JOSEPH EVE. His 25 years of accounting and auditing experience with tribal governments and entities forms the basis of his expertise in tribal accounting, fraud prevention, and gaming – the subjects of his seminars. His entrepreneurial spirit keeps him on the edge of new ideas and ways of seeing things, making him a dynamic seminar instructor.

Mr. Eve was appointed to the State of Montana Board of Public Accountants' Professional Monitoring program for eight years. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Montana Society of CPAs. He is a past member of the Governmental Audit Quality Control Committee of the Montana Society of CPAs and a licensed CPA in the states of Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Michigan, Wyoming, Iowa, California, Oklahoma, and Kansas. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Denis Adams

Denis Adams, CPA, a Senior Audit Manager at JOSEPH EVE, is a valuable technical resource for the firm. A former Director of the Montana Department of Revenue, Adams also has 30 years of auditing and consulting experience with tribal governments and enterprises. He spent seven years as a tax commissioner and financial advisor to Montana's Crow Tribe and now has returned to working with tribal clients in an advisory capacity.

Denis brings his vast experience and knowledge to his training sessions, where he helps participants keep up with current developments in auditing standards. His inside experience with tribal casinos means he knows the challenges of keeping current with the NIGC Minimum Internal Controls Standards (MICS) in the constantly changing casino environment. He also provides analytical tools to measure casino performance.

Denis is Past President of the Montana Society of Certified Public Accountants and Past Chairman of that organization's Legislative Committee. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A retired Captain in the United States Navy Reserve, he has many years' experience with the Naval Audit Service, participating in audits from the Pentagon to Pearl Harbor.

Kathy Arata-Ward

Kathy Arata-Ward, CPA, CFE, is a manager at JOSEPH EVE with over 10 years experience conducting audits of tribal governments, casinos, cities and non-profit entities. As a Certified Fraud Examiner, Kathy has been the lead auditor on many fraud engagements for JOSEPH EVE clients. Her expertise in fraud detection and prevention has become a passion for her, and she loves teaching others about the fascinating world of fraud and how to protect their assets from its reach. Since fraud is such a widespread problem, she knows from her numerous fraud investigations how important it is to address the issue.

Kathy teaches that you can't find fraud if you don't know how to commit fraud. Since fraud is a sensitive subject, audience members generally don't participate in discussion during fraud training seminars, but she finds ways to make them fun with a lot of storytelling. Kathy is President of the Big Sky Chapter of Fraud Examiners, and she is working on a masters degree in the Management of Fraud from Utica College in New York.

Grant Eve

Grant Eve, CPA, CFE, is responsible for business development for JOSEPH EVE. He is also an Audit Supervisor. He brings 4 years of auditing and consulting experience with him. He was previously employed at a big 4 accounting firm in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the firm's National Gaming Practice. Grant was responsible for the supervision of SEC public attestation engagements, private entities, and the implementation of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. His subjects include large casino operations, internet gaming, changes in Gaming operations (Tribal and Commercial), casino fraud, current accounting hot topics, and the implementation and design of internal controls in connection with Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.

Mr. Eve's prior and current clients include Ho Chunk Nation, Casino Omaha, Seven Feathers Casino, Boyd Gaming Corporation, American Pacific Corporation, Shufflemaster Inc., Pala Casino and Resort, Brian Head Resorts, Rincon Band of San Luiseno Mission Indians, Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Tribe, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Battle Mountain of Band of Te-Moak Tribe, Cahuilla Creek Casino, and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians.

Mr. Eve is a member of the American Institute of CPA's, Montana Board of Public Accountants, Nevada State Board of Accountancy, and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Glen Galt

Glen Galt, CPA, is Manager of Internal Audit at JOSEPH EVE. He has 10 years of experience working with tribal gaming facilities as lead auditor, controller, CFO, co-general manager, and consultant. His expertise in internal audit and compliance with NIGC Minimum Internal Controls Standards (MICS) makes him a good teacher of those technically demanding topics. He enjoys being able to help casinos solve their problems and seeing when his training has made a difference for a gaming establishment.

Glen also teaches seminars on Title 31 compliance and on accounting for all the transactions of money through the casino. He also enjoys teaching many of these subjects to clients one on one in on site training environments. Mr. Galt's prior clients include Desert Diamond Casinos, Nisqually Red Wind Casino, Sycuan Casino, Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino, St. Croix Casino, Taos Mountain Casino, Paragon Casino, and Camel Rock Casino.

Bobbi Rooney

Bobbi Rooney, CPA, CISA, CISSP, MCSE, is an information systems consultant with nearly 30 years of business management experience. Her experience includes planning and performing financial, operational, forensic and information systems audits for the gaming and banking industries and various governmental entities. She has an extensive background in training and teaching, at the University of Nevada, Reno, and around the country.

As a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Information Systems Auditor, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Bobbi has a rich combination of expertise that is valuable to the highly technical gaming industry. She teaches regulators and auditors how to identify problems with and solutions for information systems. Because she has seen that casinos with good IT departments tend to be more successful, she also enjoys training IT staff to maintain effective information systems.

Mark Brunson

Mark Brunson, CPA is a Manager and has been with JOSEPH EVE for 3 years.  He has 30+ years of accounting experience including 17 years of audit (Managing Partner), 14 years as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of several firms, including nine years at a predominant medical laboratory with over $75 million in revenue. 

Mr. Brunson has a broad audit background including Tribal Casinos, Tribal Governments, medical, oil and gas production facilities, and refining facilities.  Mark has served as the In-charge for audits of Tribes, Tribal Casinos, refineries and oil and gas production fields.

Tracy Walters

Tracy Walters, CISSP, is an IT consultant and auditor for JOSEPH EVE. Tracy joined the firm in 2009, bringing with him 35 years of experience in information technology. He has worked all over the world on classified projects with the Navy, the National Security Agency and other agencies, deciphering and encrypting intelligence information and developing new technologies. His international work with corporations has included developing and implementing security systems for banks and Fortune 100 companies. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Tracy's wide-ranging experience has shown him that with information systems, anything that can happen will happen - from crime to natural disasters - as well as what to do to keep information safe. His approach to training is to teach people to think, so they can apply the appropriate security measures to their particular situation. He favors an interactive learning environment, peppered with stories from his adventurous career that illustrate security problems and solutions. His skill for translating complex technical issues into plain language means that important information is accessible to those who need it.

Tracy's wife, Clarene, is a member of the Crow Tribe. "I'm familiar with the culture, and I love the Indian people," he said. "Casinos are a great opportunity for tribes to become self sufficient, and the role we play in helping them do that is important to me."

Jill Tavey

Jill Tavey, CFE has over twelve years experience preventing, detecting and investigating fraud at both the consumer and the business level. Ms. Tavey is also an audit senior with JOSEPH EVE. Her vast experience has put her in demand for conducting numerous trainings on the steps necessary to help protect businesses from chargeback’s related to fraudulent credit card transactions. Her trainings have also discussed policies and procedures that can keep internally issued credit cards from being abused.

Jill holds a bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Utah. She is a certified fraud examiner and specializes in forensic audits. Ms. Tavey’s current and prior audit clients include Ho Chunk Nation, Jackson Rancheria Casino, San Carlos Apache Gold Casino, Golden Acorn Casino, Navajo Nation Housing Authority, Spokane Housing Authority, Quechan Tribe, and US Army Recreation Machine Program.

Anthony Littlewhirlwind

Anthony Littlewhirlwind, is an Auditor and Grant Management Compliance Specialist with JOSEPH EVE. He joined the firm in 2001 after seven years as a grant accountant and Tribal Council Treasurer with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana. His area of expertise is auditing OMB federal grant compliance requirements and internal controls over federal awards.

Phillip R. Collins

Phillip Collins, CPA, CFE is a Senior Accountant and has been with JOSEPH EVE for 4 years. He has been the in-charge for several governmental, casino, and other governmental enterprise audit jobs.   He has also done consulting/internal audit work for both Casino’s and Tribal Governments, which includes both governmental compliance and NIGC Minimum Internal Controls Standards (MICS) internal audits.

Phillip’s passions include researching accounting and auditing standards, data mining, and discussing internal control issues with his clients.  Some of his recent favorite topics to research have included capital asset impairments and component units.   Phillip enjoys using IDEA©, which is the data mining software that the firm uses.   With the software, he can take general ledger detail for any of his clients, put it in a usable data format, and perform several data tests quickly and efficiently that allows him to spend more time auditing the riskier areas.  He also enjoys creating simple macros and pivot tables using Excel© to perform various auditing and other business functions.  He also enjoys discussing and writing about breaking-down organizational processes into the various internal control aspects and coming up with different options for his clients to consider.  

Phillip graduated from the University of Utah with a Masters of Accountancy and a dual bachelors degree in accounting and finance.   Phillip has been a Certified Public Accountant since 2007 and a Certified Fraud Examiner since 2008.  Phillip is a member of the American Institute of CPA’s, Utah Association of CPA’s, and Association of Fraud Examiners.