Senior Marketplace Advisor

Clay Young is a Senior Advisor in CNM’s Los Angeles office with over 30 years of experience in IT internal and external audit, cybersecurity implementation and auditing, IT SOX assessment, SOC reporting, Governance Risk and Compliance, and financial audit. Clay is a member of the Professional Practice Group (PPG) group and provides strategic guidance and risk management for Cybersecurity, IT Internal Audit and IT SOX services. His role is to deliver his depth of experience to these teams and the marketplace. Clay also contributes to thought leadership for external publication and eminence activities.

Prior to joining CNM, Clay was a senior partner at Deloitte & Touché LLP in the Risk and Financial Advisory practice. He specialized in IT/Cybersecurity and held several practice-wide and client leadership roles, including most recently as the U.S. IT/Cybersecurity Internal Audit practice leader.

Education, Certifications and Associations

  • University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, MBA, Finance
  • University of California, Los Angeles, BA, Economics
  • Harvard University, Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning: Cybersecurity Risk Management
  • CPA [inactive], California

Industry Specialty

  • Technology, Media, and Telecommunications
  • FSI Banking