By Nancy Hala, KnowledgeLeader contributing writer
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is the world's leading electronic design automation technologies and engineering services company. In this profile, John Springer, director of internal audit and compliance at Cadence, discusses how the internal audit group was formed in response to the emergence of Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, and how it was internal audit’s role to program Sarbanes-Oxley compliance processes throughout the business. Springer also describes the cultural shift within the organization around accepting and understanding the presence of an internal audit function.