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C-Sweet Los Angeles Chapter Event: Cyber, Digital, AI, Insider Comprehensive Risk Management

  • 7 Oct 2025
  • 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Kroll Century City Office - 10100 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90067

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C-Sweet Los Angeles Chapter Networking Event

  


Cyber, Digital, AI, Insider Comprehensive Risk Management

Tuesday, October 7th

5:30 - 8:00 PM PT

Kroll Century City Office 

10100 Santa Monica Blvd

Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90067


In today's complex risk landscape, organizations face an array of challenges that necessitate a holistic approach to risk management and advisory services. This framework encompasses key areas such as cyber security, AI and data privacy risks, insider threats, and regulatory compliance.


Key Areas of Focus


  1. Cyber Risk: Identifying and mitigating cyber threats that could jeopardize sensitive information and operational integrity, ensuring robust cybersecurity measures are in place.
  2. Compliance and Regulation: Navigating the complex regulatory landscape to ensure adherence to laws and standards, minimizing legal risks and enhancing corporate governance.
  3. Digital Technology: Leveraging innovative technologies - such as AI - to improve efficiency, data analysis, and decision-making processes while mitigating the associated risks.
  4. Insider Threats: Protecting your organization, people, places, trade secrets, and other confidential data from internal bad actors. 


By focusing on these interconnected areas, organizations can build a resilient framework that not only safeguards their assets but also positions them for sustainable growth and success in an ever-evolving marketplace.



Complimentary for C-Sweet members. Non-member tickets - $49.




Meet the Moderator


Natalie Tronkina

Managing Director - Transaction Advisory Services, Kroll


Natalie Tronkina is a Managing Director in the Transaction Advisory Services practice, based in the Los Angeles office.


Natalie has almost 20 years of transaction advisory experience leading buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements and focusing on performing quality of earnings and net working capital assessments, preparing pro-forma financial statements, performing profitability and bridging analyses, and evaluating financial reporting infrastructures. Her experience includes projects from a variety of industries including healthcare and life sciences, consumer and industrial products, business services, technology, manufacturing and distribution, and logistics.


Natalie spent the last 11 years at CohnReznick’s Transactional Advisory Services practice based in the Los Angeles office, becoming a partner in 2020. Prior to joining CohnReznick, Natalie spent almost seven years as a director in the West Coast transaction advisory practice of Kroll. She began her career as an assistant controller at a family-owned manufacturing company in Los Angeles and later served as a senior associate in the audit and assurance practice of McGladrey LLP. While there, she audited both public and private companies and managed the IPO process for a regional software company, assisting them in becoming a member of NASDAQ.




Meet the Speakers


Liya Vanyan

Director, M&A Transaction Advisory Services, Kroll


Liya Vanyan is a Director in Kroll’s Transaction Advisory Services practice, based in Los Angeles. With over a decade of experience, she partners closely with private equity firms and corporate acquirers to deliver actionable, investment-focused financial due diligence across the transaction lifecycle.


Liya leads Financial Due Diligence services and has advised on more than 100 M&A transactions globally, providing deep insight into revenue quality, earnings sustainability, and working capital considerations that are critical to value realization. Her reports are tailored to support investment committees and deal teams in validating deal assumptions, identifying red flags early, and structuring terms that align with their value creation strategy.


She has significant experience working with private equity clients pre- and post-LOI, helping them navigate competitive processes with speed and precision. Liya is also well-versed in purchase price mechanisms, bridging adjustments, and post-close integration issues—providing clients with continuity beyond the diligence phase.




Sherine Ebadi

Managing Director - Investigations, Diligence and Compliance, Kroll


Sherine is a Managing Director with Kroll, based in the Los Angeles office. Sherine is a fraud and financial investigations expert with more than 15 years of experience leading investigations into complex financial crimes and public corruption while at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). She graduated from the University of California, San Diego magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in History, was valedictorian of her FBI Academy class at Quantico, and is a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Finance Leaders Fellowship.


Prior to joining Kroll, Sherine spent over 10 years at the FBI as a Special Agent where she successfully investigated and helped prosecute several high-profile cases involving complex financial crime: such as, money laundering, corporate fraud, financial institution fraud, investment fraud, securities fraud, public corruption, and asset forfeiture. Sherine has also testified several times in U.S Federal Court.


At Kroll, Sherine provides expert consulting and witness services in matters involving financial crime, corruption, and corporate misconduct, as well as proactive fraud risk assessments and global asset recovery. She has advised multinational corporations and publicly traded companies in high-stakes disputes, proxy contests, and shareholder matters, and has led complex internal investigations worldwide.




Michelle Hollis

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at BitLyft Cybersecurity


Michelle Hollis is an accomplished revenue leader and strategist with a track record of driving growth and operational excellence across industries. Currently serving as the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at BitLyft Cybersecurity, Michelle provides strategic business, sales, and operational direction to companies ranging from startups to large enterprises.


With extensive experience consulting for Fortune 500 companies, Michelle brings deep expertise in go-to-market strategy, partner ecosystems, business development, and scaling operations. Her background spans sectors including healthcare, media and entertainment, aerospace, and financial services, with specialized focus in data & analytics, Microsoft partnerships, software development, and acquisition strategy.


Michelle is passionate about building high-performance teams, driving innovation, and helping organizations translate strategy into scalable execution.




Shreya Gupta

Machine Learning Solutions Architect at Nvidia


Shreya Gupta is a Solutions Architect in Machine Learning at Nvidia. Previously, she was a founding machine learning engineer at Lamini AI, where she developed a software stack enabling enterprise customers to create and host their custom production-ready LLMs.


She completed her Master's degree from Stanford University in the Symbolic Systems program in the summer of 2023, where she collaborated with Prof. Fei-Fei Li on decoding EEG-brain signals for robotic manipulation. Additionally, she worked with Prof. Justin Gardner to design deep learning algorithms for modeling areas of the Visual Temporal Cortex using the fMRI NSD Dataset. She also interned at Google Translate, where she focused on scaling laws for neural-based evaluation metrics for machine translation models.


Shreya is passionate about research in theoretical and applied deep learning and natural language processing (NLP). She was an NSF-funded RIPS Scholar at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, where she worked with Google, LA on devising privacy protection frameworks.


In addition to her professional pursuits, Shreya is deeply committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in STEM. She is a Lead at Women Who Code Delhi and founded the community MLNerdie x Delhi to bridge the gap between academia and industry in machine learning. For her initiatives, she was awarded the Google Women Techmakers Scholarship in 2019.



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