The ACFE is proud to announce that Alexandra Sagaro, CFE, FCLS, and Hannibal “Mike” Ware, CFE, have been elected to the 2021-2022 ACFE Board of Regents. Fellow CFEs elected them from candidates selected by the Board's nomination committee. The two newly elected Regents will take the oath of office in February.

Alexandra Sagaro, CFE, FCLS

Director of Enterprise Risk Management Program, Raymond James Financial

Under the leadership of Alexandra Sagaro, CFE, FCLS, the Raymond James Financial Enterprise Fraud Risk Management Program works on developing technology and resources to mitigate risk while investigating complaints of fraud and meeting regulatory filing requirements for suspicious activity.

For more than 17 years, Sagaro was a member of the Tallahassee (Florida) Police Department, Florida Department of Insurance Fraud and Florida Department of Law Enforcement. She worked on state and federal task forces for violent crime investigations, money laundering, insurance fraud and public corruption. She held management and leadership positions, including the Region 4 coordinator for emergency management responsiveness, high-liability trainer and firearms instructor.

Sagaro transitioned to the private sector where she worked for more than four years in the insurance industry consulting on projects for sinkhole fraud and the sinkhole managed repair program — a major problem in Florida.

At Raymond James Financial, where she’s worked since 2017, she also managed teams in the Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Management Department, focusing on mitigating money laundering, terrorist financing and fraudulent activity through transactional analysis within the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Fraud Investigations Team.

Sagaro earned her master’s degree in social sciences, executive management, from Florida State University in 2002.

Hannibal “Mike” Ware, CFE

Inspector General, U.S. Small Business Administration

Hannibal “Mike” Ware, CFE, was sworn in as inspector general at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on May 24, 2018, following his confirmation by the U.S. Senate.

Ware is responsible for independent oversight of SBA’s programs and operations. As a result of SBA’s role in the nation’s pandemic response, Ware is providing oversight of more than a trillion dollars of lending authority aimed at stabilizing the nation’s economy and providing vital capital to the nation’s small businesses.

He’s a statutory member of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency’s (CIGIE) Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC). Ware chairs the PRAC Subcommittee on Audits and the CIGIE Audit Committee, and is a member of CIGIE’s executive council.

Prior to his appointment as inspector general, Ware served as the deputy inspector general from April 2016 to January 2017, and the acting inspector general from January 2017. Ware has 30 years of experience within the OIG community with the first 26 years at the U.S. Department of Interior Office of Inspector General.

Ware is a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of the Virgin Islands. He’s a graduate of the U.S. Federal Senior Executive Service Career Development Program. Ware has received numerous awards throughout his career, including several from CIGIE in recognition for his significant work in the IG community.

Congratulations to Alex and Mike!

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