Jonathan Bayeff, Senior Partner
Jonathan Bayeff specializes in integrated audits and SOX compliance for publicly traded companies. With a strong background in risk assessments, control design and implementation, and refining testing approaches, he is committed to helping businesses navigate the complex SOX regulatory environment.
Jonathan began his career in New York City in an external audit capacity with PwC. He gained invaluable experience in risk assurance through a slew of integrated audits (404b). The majority of his experience came from IT controls testing for Fortune 500 financial institutions. When Jonathan moved to Austin, Texas, he joined a boutique firm named Holtzman Partners in an Internal Audit/SOX capacity. He broadened his expertise by shifting from IT only to BP SOX and worked exclusively with Medical Technology, Manufacturing, and Technology companies. After over half a decade on the advisory side, he joined MGO as an external audit lead for BP. He audited 404a/b clients in complex and emerging industries such as cannabis and navigated challenging regulatory boundaries. With his specialized experience and technical background, Jonathan co-founded New Wave Advisory.
Jonathan is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in both New York and Texas, as well as a Certified information Systems Auditors (CISA). Jonathan is passionate about fostering long- term relationship with clients and take
Paolo Marquez, Managing Director
Paolo Marquez specializes in cybersecurity, risk, and compliance for medium-sized to enterprise level companies. With a strong background in information technology and federal attestation services, he is committed to helping his clients achieve industry-defined IT and cybersecurity standards.
Paolo began his career with Union Bank in San Francisco in internal audit and compliance where he gained his foundational knowledge around business process audits and regulatory risk. He transitioned to an advisory / management consulting capacity for 13+ years with prominent public accounting firms such as RSM, Grant Thornton, Moss Adams, and MGO. During this time, he bolstered his knowledge in IT as well as cybersecurity. Quickly becoming a subject matter expert in multiple industries including: technology, financial services, blockchain/digital assets, and healthcare. Paolo was the lead auditor for several compliance frameworks engagements such as SOX 404, SOC 1/2/3, FedRAMP, NIST, ISO, HIPAA/HITRUST, and CSA STAR.
Paolo performs cybersecurity assessments for clients who aim to obtain certifications or simply to enhance their security posture. He enjoys finding meaningful and robust solutions for clients with complex and intricate business process and IT environments.
Jonn Gagnon, Managing Director
Jonn Gagnon specializes in IT controls testing, cybersecurity, and advisory for SOX 404, SOC 1/2/3, FedRAMP, NIST, ISO, HIPAA, and GDPR, and SOC clients. With a strong background in risk assessments, control design, implementation, and streamlining testing approaches.
Jonn began his career Austin, TX, with Holtzman Partners and currently servers in the Austin, TX, and Denver, CO markets. He is best known for his ability to solve technical SOC, regulatory compliance, IT general controls (ITGCs), and application controls (ITACs) issues and excels at helping companies understand complex compliance requirements.
Additionally, Jonn has experience working with an array of ERP packages (Epicor, NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, etc.), databases (Oracle, SQL, etc.), platform-as-a-service/infrastructure-as-a-service (Azure, AWS, and Google), and operating systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows, etc.) for clients in the biotech, click-through and video advertising revenue, financial services, fintech, manufacturing, and technology industries.
Jonn has a bachelor’s in accounting and computer information technology from St. Edwards University in Austin, TX. Jonn holds the Certified Information Systems Auditors (CISA) certification.