Venesha Lucas is a Certified Public Accounting executive with more than 25 years of experience providing strategic financial leadership, strengthening governance and internal controls, and supporting sustainable business performance. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, she is a trusted advisor to senior leaders with deep expertise in financial reporting, SOX and GAAP compliance, external audit oversight, systems implementations, and change management. Venesha currently serves as a Senior Accounting Leader at Cox Media Group and previously held senior leadership roles at Travelport LP and Worldpay, Inc., where she oversaw accounting operations for a business with annual net revenue exceeding $400 million. She holds an MBA from Mercer University and a BS in Accounting and Management Information Systems from Winston-Salem State University.