Global ChamberĀ® NYC Fraud: The Silent Assassin - Practical Defenses for Small and Midsize Companies
CBIZ at 730 Third Avenue
New York, NY
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Global Chamber® NYC Fraud: The Silent Assassin - Practical Defenses for Small and Midsize Companies Across the Globe
- Thursday, November 19th at 5 pm - 7 pm ET
- Location: CBIZ at 730 Third Avenue NYC

Fraud is often the silent assassin of small and midsize businesses across the globe—operating unnoticed for months while draining profits, eroding trust, and putting years of hard work at risk. Many owners assume it could never happen to them until the financial damage is already done.
Steven Nicokiris, CPA - Managing Director, CBIZ
Steven Nicokiris provides “hands on” practical business advisory, consulting, auditing and accounting services to middle-market, privately-held and family-owned companies. Steven helps clients with tax planning strategies that minimize taxes; making meaningful introductions to enhance business and profitability; and efficiently planning, managing and supervising audit engagements and other special projects for clients.
Steven shares his expertise as a lecturer at various professional organizations and financial institutions on topics related to financial statement analysis, fraud prevention, ESOPs and using benchmarking statistics to monitor business results. In addition, he frequently lectures at colleges and universities on job seeking tips and techniques and the benefits of working in a middle-market accounting firm.
As the prior co-attest practice leader and head of the Collateral Examination Services group for the New York office, Steven has provided best in class consulting services to commercial lending institutions across the country. His deep knowledge of the middle-market lending community among bank and non-bank lenders helps clients maximize their existing and potential financing arrangements, buy-sell transactions and related structuring opportunities. Steve has been a Vistage Trusted Advisor member in NYC for over 9 years. Mark Taylor is the chair of his group.
Prior to joining CBIZ in 1988, Steven was an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in NYC.
Susan Gitenstein Assadi, Executive Director at Global Chamber® New York City
Susan leads GAPR, a PR firm with an emphasis on expert and thought leadership campaigns. She is a highly respected national media strategist who helps her clients to be promoted to the national media, weaving in compelling stories that resonate with top media outlets. Her campaigns have enabled her clients to have features and recurring citations in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg. As a result of her campaigns, her clients have been boosted into leaders of their respective fields. Susan has over four decades representing public and private companies in the financial services, corporate governance and the proxy industry, alternative energy, and those with an emphasis on responsible business practices such as ESG. Most recently she has been working with disruptors who are helping to build the domestic supply chain of rare earth materials. Susan also has represented some leading non-profits. She also co-founded Safed House, a non-profit, that provides a welcoming place for refugees and recent immigrants to share their stories.
Her firm’s campaigns are fresh, creative, tech savvy, and innovative, a cocktail that engenders powerful results.
Prior to founding her own PR firm, Susan was the publicist for PBS MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. She received a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from New York University, and obtained a Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Charles Bernard - Advisory Board Chair at Global Chamber NYC and Founder and CEO of Criteria for Success
Charles is an accomplished speaker that has trained thousands of CEOs, Sales Managers, and Salespeople on the art of business relationships, growing revenue, and overcoming challenges.
With over 20 years of experience in direct sales, sales management, recruiting, and training, Charles is a subject-matter expert with a knack for troubleshooting.
He was born in Madrid, Spain and was educated in Surrey, England. Currently, Charles resides in New York City where he is authoring his debut book, “Enabling Buying in a World of Selling
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