Lou Grumet Resigns from NYSSCPA

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Lou Grumet, executive director of the NYSSCPA since 1998, has resigned his position to pursue other endeavors. Joanne S. Barry, the NYSSCPA’s longtime managing director of communications and, more recently, deputy executive director, has assumed the role of executive director.

The NYSSCPA Board of Directors expressed its appreciation for Grumet’s long-standing service to the Society and his significant contributions to the profession during his tenure.

Grumet was instrumental in bringing a decade-long battle for accounting reform to fruition with the passage of the accountancy reform law in 2008. He led the Society in a massive outreach program to inform all CPAs practicing in New York of their requirements under the new law. He has testified in Washington on a number of professional issues. He has also advocated for higher ethical standards in accountancy and the advancement of minorities in the profession; launched the idea for NYSSCPA’s Trusted Professional newspaper; and has repeatedly been named to the top 100 most influential people in accounting by Accounting Today.

Prior to his career with the NYSSCPA, Grumet was, for 14 years, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA), a not-for-profit organization representing approximately 750 member school districts. He was also assistant commissioner in the Office for Education of Children with Handicapping Conditions at the New York State Education Department, and served as director of operations and special assistant to Secretary of State Mario Cuomo.

Grumet holds a BA from George Washington University, a JD from New York University Law School, an MPA from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and is a certified association executive.