Participants in the March 8 New York Senate Roundtable Discussion

New York State Legislature

Senator Kenneth P. LaValle - chair, Senate Higher Education Committee
Diana Georgia - counsel to the Senate Higher Education Committee
Nancy Oberheim - staff member to Senator LaValle
John Demarest - program associate, office of the Senate Majority
Mark Casselini - Assembly Majority Program and Counsel
Stephanie Sorrentino - staff member to Assemblyman Edward Sullivan
Mark Tarr - principal legislative analyst, Senate Minority Office of Program

Big Five Coalition

Andrew J. Capelli - KPMG LLP

State Education Department

Johanna Duncan-Poitier deputy commissioner for the professions
Daniel J. Dustin - executive secretary to State Board for Public Accountancy
Frank Munoz - executive director, office of professional responsibility

New York State Board for Public Accountancy

P. Robert Fox (vice chair) - Eldredge Fox & Porretti LLP
Charles J. Schoff - D’Arcangelo & Co LLP

New York State Society of CPAs

Brian Caswell - Caswell & Associates CPAs PC
George T. Foundotos - Coughlin Foundotos Cullen & Danowski LLP
Marilyn A. Pendergast - Urbach Kahn & Werlin PC
Alan E. Weiner - (president) Holtz Rubenstein & Co. PC

National Conference of CPA Practitioners

Robert Goldfarb (president) - Schoenfeld Mendelsohn Goldfarb LLP
Herbert Schoenfeld - Schoenfeld Mendelsohn Goldfarb LLP

HD Vest Financial Services

Vasso LaForest - New York representative
Terra Gray - director of government affairs

Eli Mason - Mason & Co. LLP