Adebola Taiwo

Adebola Taiwo serves as Associate Director of Audit Assurance Services at Merck, where she leads teams through SOX compliance, internal audits, and risk assessments while providing technical guidance on internal controls. With approximately 15 years in accounting and finance, she previously spent eight years at Verizon in roles including project manager for internal controls and risk assessments, where she led a zero-based budgeting program that saved $10 billion and governed a $1 billion 5G business case. She also evaluated and tested IT controls for AOL in compliance with SOX. Her earlier career included senior financial leadership positions at PwC, Johnson and Johnson, and Prudential Financial. A certified public accountant, Taiwo graduated from Bloomfield College in 2009 without student loans and has since given over $70,000 in scholarships to students there. She served on the Board of Trustees at Bloomfield College from 2016 to 2022 as Executive Chair of the Student Affairs Committee. Taiwo is a member of the National Association of Black Accountants since 2007 and has participated in its Accounting Career Awareness Program, teaching personal branding at Rutgers University. She owns Bolden Chick Intelligence under Adiboll CPA LLC, offering personal budgeting services using zero-based approaches, finance transformation, and corporate strategy. Her website is boldnchic.netlify.app.