Laura Phillips served as the Deputy Chief Auditor of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) from 2003 – 2007 during which time she was instrumental in developing the PCAOB’s standards that implement the internal control audit requirement established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. She began her career in 1991 as an auditor with Ernst and Young LLP in Cleveland. After her stint at the PCAOB, she joined General Motors Company as its Assistant Corporate Controller, then Brown-Forman Corporation as its Corporate Controller. She completed her undergraduate work at Miami University majoring in accounting and finance.