Laura Bogner is the Vice President of Internal Audit at ArcBest^®. With over 25 years of auditing experience, she leads the company’s internal audit strategy, developing and implementing independent and objective audit assurance processes that add value, improve operations, manage risks and meet stakeholder expectations. Under Laura's leadership, the internal audit team strives to mitigate potential compliance, fraud and data inaccuracy concerns. Her team also evaluates internal controls for financial reporting and public filings and analyzes company financial statement accounts, financial documents and various publications, including the company’s annual sustainability report. 

Laura has been a key driver in fully integrating ArcBest’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program into our corporate strategy — advancing the company’s ability to address the most significant risks to our business. She also ensures our leadership team receives accurate quarterly risk surveys and updates on existing risks and provides regular risk assessment updates to the Board and Risk Management Committee. 

Additionally, Laura played an integral role in building a self-audit compliance program that assesses and improves compliance for internal operations audits at our 240 ABF Freight service centers. The program mirrors our on-site audit procedures and enables each service center to individually rate its own compliance with company policies, OSHA, EPA and DOT regulations, and other best practices.  

Laura was named Vice President of Internal Audit in January 2017. After five years in public accounting, Laura joined ArcBest in 2000 as Supervisor of Internal Audit and was promoted to Manager of Internal Audit in 2005 and Director of Internal Audit in 2011 before moving into her current role. Laura holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Arkansas Tech University and is a licensed CPA in Arkansas.