Rodalyn May A. Gerardo

Rodalyn May A. Gerardo Chief Auditor Guam Memorial Hospital Authority

Rodalyn May A. Gerardo serves as the Chief Auditor at our island’s only public hospital, the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (GMHA) since March 2019. As the head of the Internal Audit Office, Rodalyn provides independent, objective assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve GMHA’s operations.

Rodalyn began her audit career in 2002 as one of the Office of Public Accountability’s (OPA) first interns while completing her last semester at the University of Guam (UOG). OPA hired her as a staff auditor in January 2003 and she successfully climbed OPA’s ranks from Auditor I, Auditor II, Auditor III, Chief Auditor / Audit Supervisor, and Special Assistant / Audit Supervisor. Rodalyn was with the OPA for over 15 years and was the second most senior member of OPA’s management team.

Rodalyn was instrumental in formulating and shaping OPA into the reputable audit organization that it is today. She has supervised numerous audits as well as provided guidance to her audit teams, resulting in the issuance of quality audits in compliance with Government Auditing Standards.

Rodalyn’s interest in technology earned her a role as one of OPA’s TeamMate champions, and she was instrumental in the successful implementation of the automated audit management software in 2015. Rodalyn diligently worked on revamping OPA’s performance audit templates and successfully deployed the new TeamMate templates by October 2017, ahead of schedule. She also oversaw OPA’s Information Technology and Legislative Mandates committees.

Rodalyn holds six professional designations: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP), Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), and Certified Internal Control Auditor (CICA).

She is a member of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Guam Society of Certified Public Accountants (GSCPA), and Institute for Internal Controls (IIC).

Rodalyn has served in several leadership positions in the Association of Government Accountants (AGA), from Treasurer, President-Elect, and President, to Education Committee chairperson and co-chairperson of various subcommittees. Under her leadership, the Guam Chapter was

awarded the coveted Chapter Platinum Award while she was President and the Education Award while she was Education Director.

Since 2008, she has served as the chairperson of the Guam Chapter’s biennial Guam Professional Development Conference (GPDC). Rodalyn has also served as a Regional Vice President for the Pacific Rim and as a member of the AGA National Nominating Committee. She continues to serve as the chapter’s Education Committee Director and GPDC Chairperson for program year 2020-2021.

In late 2015, Rodalyn was selected as one of just 38 young CPAs nationwide to attend the 7th AICPA Leadership Academy in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Leadership Academy is an exclusive group of rising stars in the accounting profession, all under age 36, and selected from more than 100 candidates recommended by their employers, state societies of CPAs, etc.

In 2016, Rodalyn attended the Leadership Challenge Workshop in Orlando, Florida and was certified to facilitate the program.

Rodalyn’s expertise has also been recognized regionally and internationally, as she represented Guam OPA and the Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions (PASAI) region as a resource person on the INTOSAI Development Initiative’s Supreme Audit Institutions Engaging with Stakeholders Program in Entebbe, Uganda and Pretoria, South Africa in 2018. Rodalyn recently served as a resource person in the two-week virtual Engaging with Stakeholders Lessons Learnt Workshop via Microsoft Teams in July 2020.

Rodalyn is a 2019 alumna of the prestigious Executive Leadership Development Program sponsored by a grant from the Department of Interior, Office of Insular Affairs and administered by the Graduate School USA's Pacific Islands Training Initiative.

Rodalyn received a four-year, full-tuition Guam Women’s Club scholarship for her undergraduate studies at UOG. She then graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting degree in December 2002. Rodalyn attained her Master of Business Administration in Accounting from Mississippi College in December 2019.

Rodalyn is the eldest of four children and the only daughter of Roger and Soledad Gerardo. The pride, joy, motivation, and loves of her life are her two children, son Theone Jay and daughter Gabriella May.