John Fraser is the Vice President, Internal Audit, and Chief Risk Officer of Hydro One Networks Inc. He is an Ontario and Canadian Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (U.K.), a Certified Internal Auditor, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. Fraser has more than 30 years' experience in the risk and control field, mostly in the financial services sector. He is currently the Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Conference Board of Canada's Strategic Risk Council and a Practitioner Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Finance.

Betty J. Simkins, PhD, is the Williams Companies Professor of Business and Professor of Finance at Oklahoma State University. She has published more than 40 journal articles and book chapters. Many of these articles are on the topics of risk management and enterprise risk management. Simkins is also active in the finance profession and currently serves on the board of directors for the Financial Management Association, as co-editor of the Journal of Applied Finance, as Executive Editor of FMA Online, and as past president of the Eastern Finance Association. Prior to entering academia, she worked for ConocoPhillips and Williams Companies.