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Nominating
Committee Biographies
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DAVID
A. LIFSON, Managing Partner, Hays & Company LLP,
New York, New York. Member of the Society since 1975. Prior
committee service includes the Committee on Practical Reform
for the Tax System (Chair), Finance Committee (Chair), CPA2Biz
Task Force, Executive Committee, Tax Division Oversight Committee,
Alternative Tax Systems Task Force, Committee Operations Committee,
Taxation of Financial Instruments and Transactions Committee,
Firm Coordinators Committee, Professional Standards Task Force,
Taxation of Individuals Committee and Real Estate Committee
(Chair). Previously served as Vice President and on the Board
of Directors.
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Vice President |
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ROBERT
E. SOHR,
Own Account, Bronxville, New York. Member of the Society since
1968. Currently serving on the Board of Directors and the
Quality Enhancement Policy Committee and SEC Practice Committee.
Prior committee service includes the Awards Committee, Nominating
Committee, Committee Operations Committee, Accounting and
Auditing Oversight Committee (Chair and Vice Chair), Financial
Accounting Standards Committee (Chair), Health Care Committee
(Liaison), Auditing Standards and Procedures Committee, Publishing
and Printing Committee (Liaison) and Construction Contractors
Committee.
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Vice President |
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SHARON
SABBA FIERSTEIN,
Director, Litigation Services, Marks Paneth & Shron LLP,
New York, New York. Member of the Society since 1985. Currently
serving on the Human Resources Committee and Financial Accounting
Standards Committee. Prior committee service includes the
Bylaw Revision Task Force, Executive Committee, Committee
Operations Committee (Chair), Annual Leadership Conference
Committee, Finance Committee (Chair), Interactive Online Resource
Committee (Chair), Chief Financial Officers Committee, General
Committee on Members in Public Practice, Advancement of Women
in the Accounting Profession Committee (Chair) and Promoting
CPA Careers Committee. Previously served as Secretary, Vice
President and on the Board of Directors and as a FAE Trustee.
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Vice President |
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RICHARD
E. PILUSO,
Vice President–Internal Audit, Loews Corporation, New
York, New York. Member of the Society since 1968. Currently
serving on the Board of Directors. Prior committee service
includes the Executive Committee, Selections Subcommittee,
Awards Committee, Committee Operations Committee, Industry
Oversight Committee (Chair), Advertising Committee, Hospitality
Industry Committee (Liaison), Strategic Planning Task Force,
Task Force on Cooperation with the Bar, Task Force on Industry
Issues, Public Relations Committee (Chair), Cooperation with
Commercial Grantors Committee, Cooperation with the State
Bar Association Committee, Community Affairs Committee, Cooperation
with Financial Media Committee, Cooperation with Government
Officials Committee, Cooperation with the Securities Industry
Committee, Minority Group Recruitment and Equal Opportunity
Committee, Members in Industry Committee, Government and Education
Committee, Promoting CPA Careers Committee (Chair) and Manhattan/Bronx
Chapter Bankers and Other Credit Grantors Committee.
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Secretary |
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MARK
ELLIS,
Chief Financial Officer, Michael C. Fina, New York, New
York. Member of the Society since 1997. Currently serving
on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Human Resources
Committee, Quality Enhancement Policy Committee and Chief
Financial Officers Committee. Prior committee service includes
the Chief Financial Officers Committee (Chair), Nominating
Committee, Apparel and Textile Committee and Westchester
Chapter CFO and Senior Financial Officers Committee.
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Treasurer |
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NEVILLE
GRUSD,
Executive Vice President, Merchant Factors Corp., Merchant
Financial Corporation, New York, New York. Member of the
Society since 1979. Currently serving as Treasurer and on
the Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Finance
Committee (Chair). Prior committee service includes the
Governance Subcommittee, Nominating Committee, Task Force
of Financial Statement Users (Chair), Chief Financial Officers
Committee (Liaison), Professional Liability Insurance Committee,
Committee Operations Committee, Industry Oversight Committee
(Chair), Chief Financial Officers Committee, Financing and
Leasing Companies Committee, Consulting Services Oversight
Committee (Chair), Emerging Technologies Committee, Management
Tools and Techniques Committee (Chair), Cooperation with
Commercial Credit Grantors Committee and Manhattan/Bronx
Chapter Bankers and Other Credit Grantors Committee. Previously
served on the Board of Directors.
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Director-at-Large (for three-year terms) |
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KEVIN
LEIFER,
Partner, Ernst & Young LLP, New York, New York. Member
of the Society since 1979. Currently serving on the Partnerships
and LLCs Committee. Prior committee service includes the Partnerships
and LLCs Committee (Liaison, Chair), Tax Division Oversight
Committee, Closely Held and S Corporations Committee, Computers
in Tax Practice Committee and Tax/CUDP Committee.
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Director-at-Large |
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MARK
L. MEINBERG,
Managing Partner, Feldman Meinberg & Company, LLP, Syosset,
New York. Member of the Society since 1980. Currently serving
on the Nassau Chapter Executive Board, Large and Medium-Sized
Firms Practice Management Committee, Small Firms Practice
Management Committee and Nassau Chapter Management of an Accounting
Practice Committee (Chair). Prior committee service includes
the Managing Partners Committee, Firm Coordinators Committee
and Stock Brokerage Committee.
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Director-at-Large |
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ROBERT
A. PRYBA Jr.,
Managing Partner and Administrative Partner, Pryba Tobin &
Company P.C., Latham, New York. Member of the Society since
1977. Currently serving on the Northeast Chapter Executive
Board and the Northeast Chapter Cooperation with Educators
Committee. Prior committee service includes the Banking Committee,
Auditing Standards and Procedures Committee and Northeast
Chapter Nominating Committee and Northeast Chapter Taxation
Committee.
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Director-at-Large |
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LIREN
WEI,
Partner, Wei Wei & Co., LLP, Flushing, New York. Member
of the Society since 1994. Currently serving on the Queens
Chapter Executive Board, Government Accounting and Auditing
Committee and Peer Review Committee.
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Director-at-Large |
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MARGARET
A. WOOD,
Partner, Grant Thornton LLP, New York, New York. Member of
the Society since 1985. Currently serving on the Financial
Accounting Standards Committee (Chair), Quality Enhancement
Policy Committee and Accounting and Auditing Oversight Committee.
Prior committee services includes the Financial Accounting
Standards Committee (Vice Chair), Auditing Standards and Procedures
Committee (Chair), Advancement Within the Profession Committee,
Advancement of Women in the Accounting Profession Committee,
SEC Practice Committee and Retail Committee (Chair).
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Directors as Chapter Representatives |
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EDWARD
L. ARCARA,
Own Account, Buffalo, New York. Member of the Society since
1986. Currently serving as President of the Buffalo Chapter.
Prior committee service includes the Small Firms Practice
Management Committee and Continuity of Practice Committee
and the Buffalo Chapter Accounting and Auditing Committee,
Buffalo Chapter Cooperation with the Bar Committee, Buffalo
Chapter Cooperation with Commercial Grantors Committee, Buffalo
Chapter Public Relations Committee (Chair) and Buffalo Chapter
Management of an Accounting Practice Committee. Previously
served as Buffalo Chapter Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer
and on the Buffalo Chapter Executive Board.
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KATHLEEN
G. BROWN,
Associate Professor, Elmira College, Elmira, New York. Member
of the Society since 1979. Currently serving on the Board
of Directors and the Human Resources Committee and FAE Scholarship
Awards Committee. Prior committee service includes the Promoting
CPA Careers Committee (Vice Chair), FAE Scholarship Awards
Committee (Chair) and Education in Colleges and Universities
Committee. Previously served on the Southern Tier Chapter
Executive Board and on the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Promoting
CPA Careers Committee.
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SCOTT
HOTALEN,Partner,
Vieira & Associates, CPAs, PC, Binghamton, New York. Member
of the Society since 2001. Currently serving as President
of the Southern Tier Chapter. Previously served as President-Elect
and Vice President of the Southern Tier Chapter. Prior committee
service includes the Southern Tier Chapter Young CPAs Committee.
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LAUREN
L. KINCAID,
Partner, Firley Moran Freer & Eassa CPA P.C., Syracuse,
New York. Member of the Society since 1991. Currently serving
on the Syracuse Chapter Executive Board and Syracuse Chapter
Public Relations Committee (Chair). Previously served as President,
President-Elect, Vice President, Secretary and Media Representative
of the Syracuse Chapter.
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ELLIOT
A. LESSER,
Partner, Berdon LLP, New York, New York. Member of the Society
since 1970. Currently serving as Treasurer of the Westchester
Chapter and on the Westchester Chapter Executive Board and
the Estate and Financial Planning Committee, Professional
Ethics Committee, SEC Practice Committee, Auditing Standards
and Procedures Committee and Litigation Services Committee.
Prior committee service includes the Bankruptcy and Financial
Reorganizations Committee, Committee Operations Committee,
Real Estate Committee (Chair), Large and Medium-Sized Firms
Practice Management Committee, Management of an Accounting
Practice Committee, Cooperation with Financial Media Committee,
Cooperation with the Securities Industry Committee, Construction
Contractors Committee and Cooperation with Commercial Creditor
Grantors Committee, and the Westchester Chapter Accounting
Careers and Education Committee (Liaison), Westchester Chapter
Accounting Principles and Audit Committee (Liaison, Chair),
Westchester Chapter Education and Programming Committee, Westchester
Chapter Local Practitioners Committee and Westchester Chapter
Partnering with Professionals Committee. Previously served
on the Westchester Chapter Executive Board.
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JUDITH
I. SEIDMAN,
Audit Manager, Friedman LLP, New York, New York. Member of
the Society since 1998. Currently serving as President of
the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter. Prior committee service includes
the Young CPAs Committee. Previously served as President-Elect
of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter, and on the Manhattan/Bronx
Chapter Executive Board and Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Young
CPA/CPA Candidates Committee (Chair).
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