Raymond Paolantonio, CPA - Managing Director
Ray has over 20 years of diversified experience in various internal audit and consulting roles in the entertainment, professional services, manufacturing, retail and advertising industries. Ray's prime expertise is creating and delivering diverse risk management services relating to internal audit, process improvement, Sarbanes-Oxley and information technology.
Prior to Sunera, Ray spent seven years with national and regional consulting and accounting firms developing and managing their risk advisory practices and providing worked-class service to various clients, from start-ups to Fortune 100's.
Ray was a Group Director in Ernst & Young's Business Risk Services practice where he was responsible for multiple internal audits, SOX and other governance and process improvement engagements. He was recognized internally and by his clients as a subject matter expert in the entertainment, advertising, and professional services industries as well as for his deep internal audit services.
Before joining E&Y, Ray was Vice President of Internal Audit at Viacom Inc. where he was responsible for the worldwide operations of such brands as Paramount Pictures, MTV Networks, Blockbuster Video and Madison Square Garden. He spent five years in the Internal Audit Department of JWT Group, the former holding group of J. Walter Thomson and Hill & Knowlton, after spending three years with a mid-sized New York CPA firm.
