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Nominating
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For President-Elect |
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JOHN
J. KEARNEY, Partner, Israeloff Trattner & Company, CPAs,
P.C., Garden City, New York. Member of the Society since 1989.
Currently serving as a member of the Tax Division Oversight
Committee, Closely Held and S Corporations Committee, Taxation
of Individuals Committee (Liaison), Firm Coordinators Committee,
Professional Liability Insurance Committee, and Nassau Chapter
Membership Committee. Prior committee service includes the Firm
Coordinators Committee, Executive Committee, Finance Committee,
Chapter Relations Committee, Tax Division Oversight Committee
(Chair), as a Government Relations Director, the Committee on
Committee Operations, Finance Committee, Annual Leadership Conference,
Legislation Committee, Taxation of Individuals Committee (Liaison;
Chair) Executive Committee, Alternative Tax Systems Task Force
(Chair) and
Professional Liability Insurance Committee, and as Nassau Chapter
Government Relations Director and on the Nassau Chapter Furtherance
Committee. Previously served as Vice President and Member of
the Board of Directors, and as President, President-Elect, Secretary
and Treasurer of the Nassau Chapter and on the Nassau Chapter
Executive Board.
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For Vice President |
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VINCENT
J. LOVE, Managing Partner, Kramer, Love & Cutler, LLP,
New York, New York. Member of the Society since 1970. Currently
serving on the Board of Directors and as a member of the Executive
Committee, Mediation and Arbitration Committee (Chair), and
Financial Accounting Standards Committee. Prior committee service
includes the Audit Committee, Financial Accounting Standards
Committee, Auditing Standards and Procedures Committee (Chair),
Professional Ethics Committee (Chair), Mediation Arbitration
Committee (Vice Chair) and Litigation Services Committee.
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For Vice President |
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SANDRA
A. NAPOLEON-HUDSON, Partner, Steinfink Napoleon & DiBenedetto,
LLP, Elmsford, New York. Member of the Society since 1989. Currently
serving on the Board of Directors and as a member of the Political
Action Committee, Bylaws Revision Task Force, and Professional
Ethics Committee, and as a Westchester Chapter Board of Directors
Representative, PAC Representative, Government Relations Director,
and on the Westchester Chapter Education and Programming Committee,
Furtherance Committee and Government Relations Committee (Chair).
Prior committee service includes the Finance Committee, Nominating
Committee, Annual Leadership Conference, Chapter Relations Committee,
Legislation Committee, Cooperation with Community Businesses
Committee, Public Relations Committee, Furtherance Committee
and Education in Colleges and Universities Committee. Previously
served as President, President-elect, Vice President, Treasurer
and Secretary of the Westchester Chapter, on the Westchester
Chapter Executive Board, and on the Westchester Chapter Annual
Installation Dance Committee.
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For Vice President |
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RAYMOND
M. NOWICKI, Partner, Nowicki & Company, LLP, Buffalo,
New York. Member of the Society since 1979. Currently serving
on the Board of Directors and as a member of the Executive Committee,
Audit Committee, Peer Review Committee, and on the Buffalo Chapter
Board of Directors and as a Buffalo Chapter Government Relations
Director. Prior committee service includes the Nominating Committee,
Chapter Relations Committee, Peer Review Committee, Legislation
Committee and Local Practitioners and Small Firms Committee.
Previously served as President, President-elect, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Buffalo Chapter and on the Buffalo Chapter
Executive Board and the Buffalo Chapter Cooperation with the
Bar Committee, Cooperation with Commercial Credit GrantorsCommittee
and Accounting and Auditing Committee (Chair).
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For Vice President |
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STEVEN
RUBIN, Firm Director, Deloitte & Touche, LLP, New York,
New York. Member of the Society since 1979. Currently serving
as a member of the Global Accounting and Auditing Committee,
Accounting and Auditing Oversight Committee and Financial Accounting
Standards Committee (Chair). Prior committee service includes
the Auditing Standards and Procedures Committee, Cooperation
with the Financial Media Committee, Professional Standards Task
Force, Account and Auditing Oversight Committee, Accounting
and Review Services Committee (Chair; Liaison), Hospitality
Industry Committee (Liaison), Firm Coordinators Committee, Financial
Accounting Standards Committee, Education in Colleges and Universities
Committee, Quality Control Practice Assistance Committee and
the Practice Evaluation and Assistance Committee. Previously
served on the Board of Directors.
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For Secretary |
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THOMAS
E. RILEY, Principal, The Fagliarone Group, CPAs, P.C., Syracuse,
New York. Member of the Society since 1982. Currently serving
as Secretary of the Board of Directors and as a member of the
Executive Committee, FAE Board of Trustees, Firm Coordinators
Committee, Membership Committee, Estate Planning Committee and
the Syracuse Chapter Executive Board. Prior committee service
includes the Audit Committee, Firm Coordinators Committee, Executive
Committee, as a Government Relations Director, Finance Committee,
Chapter Relations Committee, New York, Multistate and Local
Taxation Committee, Public Relations Committee, Chapter Operations
Committee, Legislation Committee and Community Affairs Committee,
and on the Syracuse Chapter Executive Board, as Syracuse Chaper
Government Relations Director and on the Syracuse Chapter Public
Relations Committee. Previously served as Vice President and
on the Board of Directors and as President, President-elect
and Vice President of the Syracuse Chapter.
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For Treasurer |
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ARTHUR
BLOOM, Tax Partner, Marks Paneth & Shron, LLP, New York,
New York. Member of the Society since 1972. Currently serving
on the Board of the Directors. Prior committee service includes
the Executive Committee, FAE Board of Trustees, Cooperation
with Community Businesses Committee, Health Care Committee,
Real Estate Committee, Annual Leadership Conference, Finance
Committee, Taxation of Individuals Committee, Industry Oversight
Committee, Exempt Organizations Committee, Closely Held and
S Corporations Committee (Chair), Computers in Tax Practice
Committee, Sales, Exchanges and Basis Committee, General Committee
on Members in Public Practice, Local Practitioners and Small
Firms Committee (Chair) and Estate Planning Committee.
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Director-at-Large |
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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 as a member of the Awards Committee, Committee on Committee
Operations and Industry Oversight Committee (Chair). Prior committee
service includes the Advertising Committee, Hospitality Industry
Committee (Liaison), Strategic Planning Task Force, Cooperation
with the Bar Task Force, Public Relations Committee (Chair),
Cooperation with Bankers and Other Credit Grantors Committee,
Cooperation with the State Bar Association Committee, Community
Affairs Committee, Cooperation with the Financial Media Committee,
Cooperation with Government Officials Committee, Cooperation
with the Securities Industry Committee, Minority Group Recruitment
and Equal Opportunity Committee, Promoting CPA Careers Committee,
Members in Industry Committee, Government and Education Committee
and the Promoting CPA Careers Committee (Chair).
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Director-at-Large |
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MICHELLE
A. COHEN, Manager, Rotenberg & Company, LLP, Rochester,
New York. Member of the Society since 1995. Currently serving
as a member of the Membership Committee, Health Care Committee
and Rochester Chapter Meeting Coordinator/Profession Committee
(Chair) and on the Rochester Chapter Executive Board. Prior
committee service includes the Awards Committee, Firm Coordinators
Committee, Annual Leadership Conference, Health Care Committee,
Membership Committee, Leadership Academy Committee and Rochester
Chapter One-on-One Committee (Chair). Previously served as President,
President-elect, Vice President and Secretary of the Rochester
Chapter and President and Vice President of the Rochester Chapter
CPA Candidates Committee.
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Director-at-Large |
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MARK
ELLIS, Chief Financial Officer, Michael C. Fina Company,
Long Island City, New York. Member since 1997. Currently serving
as a member of the Chief Financial Officers Committee (Chair).
Prior committee service on the Apparel and Textile Committee.
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Director-at-Large |
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RAYMOND
P. JONES, Managing Partner, Watson Rice, LLP, New York,
New York. Member of the Society since 1990. Currently serving
as a member of the Not-for-Profit Organizations Committee, Managing
Partners Committee and the COAP Baruch Advisory Board. Prior
committee service includes the Exempt Organizations Committee
(Chair), Firm Coordinators Committee and Community Affairs Committee.
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Director-at-Large |
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ROBERT
N. WAXMAN, Own Account, New York, New York. Member of the
Society since 1961. Currently serving as a member of the Accounting
and Auditing Oversight Committee, Global Accounting and Auditing
Committee (Chair) and the Auditing Standards and Procedures
Committee. Prior committee service includes the SEC Practice
Committee (Chair), Financial Accounting Standards Committee,
Advancement of Women in the Accounting Profession Committee,
Cooperation with the Securities Industry Committee, Audit Sampling
and Analytical Techniques Committee, Financial Accounting Standards
Committee (Chair) and Budget Policy Committee.
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Director (Buffalo Chapter) |
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ANN
BURSTEIN COHEN, Visiting Associate Professor, S.U.N.Y. at
Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. Member of the Society since 1984.
Currently serving as President of the Buffalo Chapter and a
member of the Buffalo Chapter Cooperation with the Bar Committee,
Federal and State Taxation Committee and Publications-Newsletter
Committee (Chair). Previously served as President-Elect and
Secretary of the Buffalo Chapter and member of the Buffalo Chapter
Executive Board.
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Director (Central Southern Tier Chapter) |
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NANCY
A. KIRBY, Partner-in-Charge, Kirby Beals Maier CPAs, PLLC,
Elmira, New York. Member of the Society since 1978. Currently
serving as a member of the Board of Directors, the Finance Committee,
Political Action Committee and the Central Southern Tier Chapter
Board of Directors and Media Representative Committee (Chair).
Prior committee service includes Emerging Technologies Committee
and Continuity of Practice List Committee. Previously served
as President of the Central Southern Tier Chapter.
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Director (Manhattan/Bronx Chapter) |
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WILLIAM
AIKEN, Own Account. Member of the Society since 1981. Currently
serving as a member of the Board of Directors, Finance Committee,
Political Action Committee, COAP Baruch Advisory Board and the
Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Executive Board. Prior committee service
includes the Awards Committee, Insurance Companies and Agencies
Committee, Audit Committee, Industry Oversight Committee, Not-for-Profit
Organizations Committee, Chief Financial Officers Committee
and Cooperation with Government Officials Committee. Previously
served as President of the Manhattan/ Bronx Chapter and on the
Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Executive Board.
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Director (Southern Tier Chapter) |
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PHILIP
G. WESTCOTT, Partner, Johnson Lauder & Savidge, LLP,
Binghamton, New York. Member of the Society since 1989. Currently
serving as a member of the Southern Tier Chapter Executive Board.
Prior committee service includes the Finance Committee, Legislation
Committee and Southern Tier Chapter CPE Committee. Previously
served as President, President-Elect, Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer
of the Southern Tier Chapter.
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Director (Syracuse Chapter) |
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DAVID
J. MOYNIHAN, Partner, Testone Marshall & Discenza, LLP,
Syracuse, New York. Member of the Society since 1982. Currently
serving as a member of the COAP Le Moyne Advisory Board, and
on the Syracuse Chapter Executive Board and Syracuse Chapter
Cooperation with Educational Institutes Committee (Chair). Prior
committee service includes the Government Accounting and Auditing
Committee and the Syracuse Chapter One-on-One Committee (Chair).
Previously served as President and President-Elect of the Syracuse
Chapter.
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Director (Westchester Chapter) |
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ROBERT
L. ECKER, Partner, Ecker Loehr Ecker & Ecker, LLP, Yonkers,
New York. Member of the Society since 1986. Currently serving
as a member of the Estate Planning Committee (Chair), and the
Westchester Chapter Executive Board, Annual Installation Dance
Committee (Chair), Partnering with Professionals Committee (Liaison),
CPE/CLE/CFP Committee (Liaison), Taxation and Estate Planning
Committee, Education and Programming Committee, Furtherance
Committee (Chair), Membership Committee (Chair) and Sponsorships
Committee. Prior committee service on the Estate Planning Committee
(Vice Chair). Previously served as President, President-Elect
and Treasurer of the Westchester Chapter and member of the Westchester
Chapter Executive Board.
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