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Governance

The NYSSCPA is governed by a 39-member board of directors that includes seven officers: president, president-elect, four vice presidents, and a secretary/treasurer who serve a one-year term beginning June 1 and ending May 31 the following year. Directors-at-large and directors as chapter representatives hold office for three or four years. The CEO serves as a non-voting member of the board.

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Board of Directors Members

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Name	Firm/Bio	Chapter
Kevin Matz President Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 1993. FIRM: Senior Partner, ArentFox Schiff Hardin LLP, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer and Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors. Current President of the Executive Committee. Past member of the Executive Committee. Past President, President-elect, Secretary/Treasurer and member of the Foundation for Accounting Education Board of Trustees. Past Secretary/Treasurer of the Moynihan Scholarship Fund Board of Trustees. Past Chair of the FAE Curriculum Committee. Current member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Professional Liability Insurance committees. Current member of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports; Estate Planning; Family Office; International Taxation; New York, Multistate and Local Taxation; Private Equity and Venture Capital; Taxation of Individuals; Tax Division Oversight; and Trust and Estate Administration communities. Past Chair of the Trust and Estate Administration Community. Past Vice Chair of the Professional Liability Insurance Committee. Past member of the Finance and Nominating committees. Past member of the FAE Governance, Industry Oversight and Investment Management, Tax Division Oversight and Trust and Estate Administration communities. Past member of the Moynihan Scholarship Fund Fundraising Committee. Past Chair and Vice Chair of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports and Estate Planning communities. Past member of the Rapid Response Subcommittee (TDOC). Past member of the Chapter and Legislative task forces.	Manhattan/Bronx
Michael R. Durant President-elect Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2011. FIRM: Founder, Aequitas Tax, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors. Current member of The Moynihan Scholarship Fund Board of Trustees. Current President-elect of the Executive Committee. Past member of the Executive Committee. Past member of the Selections Subcommittee. Current member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and NextGen committees. Current member of the Family Office, Personal Financial Planning, Small Firms Practice Management and Trust and Estate Administration communities. Current member of the Legislative Task Force. Past Chair and Co-Chair of the NextGen Committee. Past member of the Taxation of Mergers, Acquisitions, Dispositions and Other Business Transactions communities. Past member of the Strategic Planning Task Force. Past member of the Leadership Institute. CHAPTER: Past Co-Chair of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter NextGen Committee. Past member of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter NextGen Committee.	Manhattan/Bronx
Jamie L. Atkinson Vice President Southern Tier	Member of the Society since 2012. FIRM: Director, Davidson Fox & Company LLP. STATEWIDE: Past Director as Chapter Representative on the Board of Directors. Current member of the Executive Committee. Current member of the Professional Liability Insurance Committee. Past member of the NextGen Committee. CHAPTER: Past Southern Tier Chapter President, President-elect, Vice President, and Secretary/Treasurer. Past Southern Tier Chapter Executive Board member. Past Co-Chair of the Southern Tier Chapter NextGen Committee.	Southern tier
Clara M. Cohen Vice President Westchester	Member of the Society since 2019. FIRM: Director, Stratify BCG, Mount Kisco, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Current Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Past Vice Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Current member of the Business Valuation and Litigation Services Community. CHAPTER: Current Director of the Westchester Chapter Executive Board. Past Co-Chair of the Westchester Chapter Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Past member of the Westchester Chapter Executive Board.	Westchester
David Evangelista Vice President Rockland	Member of the Society since 1988. FIRM: Sole Practitioner, David Evangelista, CPA, Stony Point, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Current Trustee and Past President of The New York State Society CPA PAC. Past Vice President of the Society Board of Directors. Past President of the Foundation for Accounting Education Board of Trustees. Past member of the Executive Committee. Past Chair of the Governance Subcommittee. Past member of the Nominating Committee. Past Chair of the FAE Curriculum and Governance committees. Past member of the Finance Committee. Past member of the Awards, FAE Performance and Public Schools communities. CHAPTER: Current member of the Rockland Chapter Executive Board. Past President of the Rockland Chapter. Past Co-Chair of the Rockland Chapter Golf Outing and Nominating committees. Past Secretary, Treasurer and member of the Mid-Hudson Chapter Executive Board. Past Chair of the Mid-Hudson Chapter Not-For-Profit/Government Committee.	Rockland
Zachary Gordon Vice President Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2009. FIRM: Founder, Red Five, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Past Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors. Current member of the Cannabis Industry, and Digital Assets communities. Past Chair and Vice Chair of the Digital Assets Community. Past Chair of the Cannabis Industry Community. Past member of the Proactive Transformation Panel. Past member of the Banking and Technology Assurance communities. Past member of the Leadership Institute.	Manhattan/Bronx
Patricia A. Johnson Vice President Buffalo	Member of the Society since 1977. FIRM: Educator/Sole Practitioner, Patricia A. Johnson, CPA, Buffalo, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Current member of the Foundation for Accounting Education Board of Trustees. Past President of the Foundation for Accounting Education Board of Trustees. Past Director as Chapter Representative on the Board of Directors. Current member of the FAE Curriculum Committee. Past Chair of the CPA Careers, Higher Education and Public Sector Oversight communities. Past member of the Awards, FAE Curriculum and FAE Scholarship Awards communities. Past member of the Nominating Committee. Current member of the Accounting Careers and Education Committee. Current member of the Anti–Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist, Business Valuation and Litigation Services, Exempt Organizations, and Not-for-Profit Organizations communities. Past member of the Membership Task Force. Past Campus Liaison. CHAPTER: Current member of the Buffalo Chapter Executive Board. Current Chair of the Buffalo Chapter Education Committee. Past Buffalo Chapter President, President-elect, Treasurer and member of the Buffalo Chapter Executive Board. Past Chair of the Buffalo Chapter Not-for-Profit Committee.	Buffalo
William H. Dresnack Secretary/Treasurer Rochester	Member of the Society since 1987. FIRM: Associate Professor and MBA Director, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Current Secretary/Treasurer on the Board of Directors. Current Secretary/Treasurer on the Foundation for Accounting Education Board of Trustees. Current Secretary/Treasurer on the Moynihan Scholarship Fund Board of Trustees. Past Vice President, Director as Chapter Representative, and Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors. Current member of the Executive Committee. Current member of the Audit and Finance committees. Past member of the Nominating Committee. Past member of the Awards, CPA Careers, FAE Campus Ambassador, Financial Accounting Standards, Members in the Field of Education communities. Past member of the COAP Statewide Advisory Board. CHAPTER: Past Rochester Chapter President and Vice President. Current member of the Rochester Chapter World of Accounting Committee. Past Chair of the Rochester Chapter World of Accounting Committee. Past member of the Rochester Chapter Cooperation with Educational Institutions Committee. Past Chair of the COAP Brockport Advisory Board. Current member of the COAP Rochester Advisory Board. Past Chair of the COAP Rochester Advisory Board.	Rochester
Kevin P. O’Leary Immediate Past President Northeast	Member of the Society since 2000. FIRM: Managing Partner, MMB + CO, Albany, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past President on the Board of Directors. Past Director as Chapter Representative on the Board of Directors. Current member of The Moynihan Scholarship Fund Board of Directors. Past President of the Executive Committee. Past member of The New York State Society CPA PAC. Past President of the Finance Committee. Past Chair of the Selections Subcommittee. CHAPTER: Past Northeast Chapter President, President-elect, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer. Past Chair of the Northeast Chapter NextGen Committee. Past member of the Northeast Chapter Cooperation with Educators and Golf Outing committees.	Northeast
Mathieu Aimlon Director-at-Large Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2012. FIRM: Founder, Aimlon CPA P.C., New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past Chair and Vice Chair of the C Corporations Community. Current member of the C Corporations Community. Past member of the Tax Division Oversight Community.	Manhattan/Bronx
Kurt J. Button Director as Chapter Representative Rochester	Member of the Society since 2020. FIRM: Assurance Principal, Mengel Metzger Barr & Company LLP, Rochester, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past member of the Executive Committee. CHAPTER: Past Rochester Chapter President. Past Rochester Chapter President-elect and Vice President. Past Director of the Rochester Chapter Executive Board.	Rochester
Anthony S. Chan Director-at-Large Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 1989. FIRM: President, CA Global Consulting Inc., Flushing, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past Vice President on the Board of Directors. Past Vice President and member of the Executive Committee. Past member of the Foundation for Accounting Education Board of Trustees. Current member of the Chief Financial Officers (CFO), Internal Audit and SEC communities. Past Chair of the Internal Audit, NextGen, Nominating, and SEC committees. Past Chair of the CFO Community. Past member of the Accounting and Auditing Oversight Committee. Past member of the FAE Performance; Industry Oversight; Media and Publishing; Members in Public Practice; and Taxation of Mergers, Acquisitions, Dispositions and Other Business Transactions communities. Past member of the Governance and Selections subcommittees. Past member of the COAP Baruch and St. John’s advisory boards. Current member of The CPA Journal Advisory Board.	Manhattan/Bronx
Elysa Dauerman Director as Chapter Representative Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 1994. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Taxation of Individuals Community. Past member of the Relations with the Internal Revenue Service Community. CHAPTER: Past Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary. Past Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Executive Board member. Past Chair of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Nominating Committee. Past member of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Membership Committee.	Manhattan/Bronx
Timothy J. Doyle *Director-at-Large* Northeast	Member of the Society since 2003. FIRM: Partner, The Bonadio Group, Albany, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Public Schools Community. Past member of the Audit Committee. CHAPTER: Past Northeast Chapter President, President-elect, and Vice President. Past Northeast Chapter Executive Board member. Past Chair of the COAP Northeast Advisory Board.	Northeast
Nicolas P. Eells Director as Chapter Representative Adirondack	Member of the Society since 2009. FIRM: Managing Partner, The Hoffman Eells Group CPAs, P.C., Malone, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past member of the Governance Subcommittee. Past member of the Awards Community. CHAPTER: Past Adirondack Chapter President and President-elect. Past President of the Adirondack Chapter Executive Board.	Adirondack
Mark L. Farber *Director-at-Large* Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 1986. FIRM: Sole Practitioner, Mark L. Farber CPA PC, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the International Taxation, Taxation of Financial Instruments and Transactions and Tax Division Oversight communities. Past member of the Banking, Financial Reorganizations and Personal Financial Planning communities. CHAPTER: Past member of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Executive Board. Past member of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Cooperation with Bankers and Other Credit Grantors Committee.	Manhattan/Bronx
Stephanie Gigliotti Director as Chapter Representative Mid Hudson	Member of the Society since 2005. FIRM: Partner, Prager Metis CPAs, LLC, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past member of the Selections Subcommittee. Current member of the Employee Benefits Community. Past Chair and Vice Chair of the Employee Benefits Community. Past member of the Accounting and Auditing Oversight communities. CHAPTER: Past member of the Mid Hudson Chapter Nominating Committee.	Mid-Hudson
Orumé A. Hays Director-at-Large Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2007. FIRM: Founder and CEO, Hays CPA LLC, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Past Vice President on the Board of Directors. Past Vice President and member of the Executive Committee. Past Chair of the Relations with the Internal Revenue Service Community. Current member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Finance committees. Current member of the Closely Held and S Corporations; Family Office; Financial Accounting Standards; International Taxation; Not-for-Profit Organizations; Partnerships and LLCs; Personal Financial Planning; Small Firms Practice Management; and Taxation of Individuals communities. Past Chair of the Relations with the Internal Revenue Service Community. Past Chair and Vice Chair of the Small Firms Practice Management Community. Past member of the Finance and Nominating committees. Past member of the Selections Subcommittee. Past Chair of the Strategic Planning Task Force. CHAPTER: Past Manhattan/Bronx Chapter President and President-elect. Past member of the Staten Island Chapter Executive Board. Past member of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter Promoting CPA Careers Committee. Past Co-Chair of the Staten Island Chapter Public Relations Committee. Past member of the Staten Island Chapter Hall of Fame Committee.	Manhattan/Bronx
Robert J. Huether Director-at-Large Suffolk	Member of the Society since 2010. FIRM: Director, SEC Reporting, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Melville, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past member of the Selections Subcommittee. Current Chair of the NextGen Committee. Current member of the SEC Community. Past member of the CPA Evolution Task Force. Past member of the Leadership Institute. CHAPTER: Past Suffolk Chapter President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Current Nassau/Suffolk Chapter Executive Board member. Past Chair and Co-Chair of the Suffolk Chapter NextGen Committee.	Suffolk
William C. Huether Director-at-Large Suffolk	Member of the Society since 2010. FIRM: Partner, Sheehan & Company, CPA, PC, Brightwaters, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past Vice President and Director as Chapter Representative on the Board of Directors. Past Vice President and member of the Executive Committee. Past Vice President of the Executive Board. Current member of the NextGen Committee. Past member of the Awards, Cannabis Industry, International Accounting and Auditing communities. Past member of the Governance and Selections subcommittees. Past member of the CPA Evolution Task Force. Past member of the Leadership Institute. CHAPTER: Past Suffolk Chapter President, President-elect, Vice President, Secretary and, Treasurer. Past Suffolk Chapter Executive Board member. Past Chair of the Suffolk Chapter Public Relations Committee. Past Co-Chair of the Suffolk Chapter Membership and NextGen committees.	Suffolk
John M. Iacobellis Director-at-Large Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2007. FIRM: Principal, BDO USA, P.C., New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Stock Brokerage Community. Past Chair of the Stock Brokerage Community.	Manhattan/Bronx
Philip J. London Director-at-Large Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2002. FIRM: Partner Emeritus, Wiss & Company, LLP, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Past Vice President on the Board of Directors. Past Vice President of the Executive Committee. Past Vice President of Committees. Current member of the C Corporations; Closely Held and S Corporations; Estate Planning; New York, Multistate and Local Taxation; Partnerships and LLCs; Personal Financial Planning; Relations with the Internal Revenue Service; and Taxation of Individuals communities. Past Chair of the New York, Multistate and Local Taxation and Tax Division Oversight communities. Past Vice Chair of the Tax Division Oversight Community. Past member of the Awards; Taxation of Mergers, Acquisitions, Dispositions and Other Business Transactions; and Tax Division Oversight communities. Past member of the Legislative and Strategic Plan Update task forces.	Manhattan/Bronx
Kelly Mandell-Klumpp Director as Chapter Representative Buffalo	Member of the Society since 2017. FIRM: Valuation, Forensic & Litigation Senior Associate, Sax, LLP, New York City, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past member of the Selections Subcommittee. Current member of the NextGen Committee. Past member of the Leadership Institute. CHAPTER: Current Buffalo Chapter President-elect. Past Buffalo Chapter Vice President and Secretary. Past Buffalo Chapter Executive Board member. Co-Chair of the Buffalo Chapter NextGen Committee.	Buffalo
Marc T. Mallare Director-at-Large Buffalo	Member of the Society since 2019. FIRM: Audit Manager, Frazier & Deeter, Atlanta, G.A. STATEWIDE: Past Chair and Vice Chair of the NextGen Committee. CHAPTER: Current Buffalo Chapter President-elect. Current Chair of the Buffalo Chapter Young CPAs / NextGen. Past member of the Buffalo Chapter Executive Board.	Buffalo
Nadia-Maria Matthie Director-at-Large Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2015. FIRM: Partner, WithumSmith+Brown, PC, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current President of The Moynihan Scholarship Fund Board of Trustees. Current President of the Moynihan Scholarship Fund Fundraising Committee. Current member of the Employee Benefits Community. Past Chair and Co-Chair of the COAP Pace Advisory Board. Past member of the COAP Pace Advisory Board.	Manhattan/Bronx
Michael R. Mattick Director as Chapter Representative Southern Tier	Member of the Society since 2015. FIRM: President, Mattick CPA, P.C., Binghamton, N.Y. CHAPTER: Past Southern Tier Chapter President. Past Southern Tier Chapter President-elect, Vice President and Treasurer.
Andrew M. Mintzer Director-at-Large	Member of the Society since 2016. FIRM: Principal, Hemming Morse LLC, Los Angeles, Calif. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Professional Ethics Committee. Past member of the International Accounting and Auditing Community.
Andrea M. Pagano Director as Chapter Representative Syracuse	Member of the Society since 2014. FIRM: Instructor of Accounting, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, N.Y. CHAPTER: Past Syracuse Chapter Treasurer. Past President of the Syracuse Chapter Executive Board. Past President of the Syracuse Chapter. Past President-elect of the Syracuse Chapter Executive Board. Past President-elect of the Syracuse Chapter. Past Syracuse Chapter Executive Board member. Past COAP Syracuse Advisory Board member.	Rochester
Lenore Sanchez Director as Chapter Representative Rockland	Member of the Society since 2016. FIRM: Director, PKF O’Connor Davies, LLP, Woodcliff Lake, N.J. STATEWIDE: Past member of the Executive Committee. Past member of the Governance Subcommittee. Past Chair and Vice Chair of the Accounting and Review Services Community. Past member of the Accounting and Auditing Oversight, Accounting and Review Services and Awards communities. CHAPTER: Current member of the Rockland Chapter Executive Board. Past Rockland Chapter President and President-elect. Past President of the Rockland Chapter Executive Board. Past Chair of the Rockland Chapter Government/Non-Profit and TP Liaison/Public Relations/Media committees.	Rockland
William F. Schwenk Director-at-Large Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2010. FIRM: Audit Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past Chair of the Audit Committee. Current member of the Banking Community. Past member of the Audit Committee.	Manhattan/Bronx
Zhoudi Tang Director-at-Large Manhattan/Bronx	Member of the Society since 2015. FIRM: Partner, L&T Tax Services, LLC, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current Chair of the Tax Division Oversight Community. Current member of the New York, Multistate & Local Taxation Community. Past Chair and Vice Chair of the New York, Multistate & Local Taxation and Tax Division Oversight communities. Past member of the Nominating Committee. Past member of the Awards Community. Past member of the Leadership Institute.	Manhattan/Bronx
Nick Tsoukaris Director as Chapter Representative Staten Island	Member of the Society since 1998. FIRM: Director, Ruiz Consulting Group, Ozone Park, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current Chair of the Accounting and Review Services Community. Past Vice Chair of the Accounting and Review Services Community. CHAPTER: Current Staten Island Chapter President. Past Staten Island Chapter Treasurer. Past member of the Staten Island Chapter Executive Board.
Mark M. Ulrich Director as Chapter Representative Queens/Brooklyn	Member of the Society since 2007. FIRM: Assistant Professor, CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Past Director-at-Large and Director on the Board of Directors. Past member of the Foundation for Accounting Education Board of Trustees. Past member of the Future of Accounting Education Committee. Current member of the Accounting Careers and Education Committee. Past member of the Awards Community. Past member of the Future of Accounting Education Committee. Past member of the Selections Subcommittee. Past member of the CPA Exam Practice Analysis and Membership task forces. Past member of the COAP Statewide Advisory Board. CHAPTER: Past Queens/Brooklyn Chapter President, President-elect, Secretary, and Treasurer. Past member of the Queens/Brooklyn Chapter Executive Board. Past member of the Queens/Brooklyn Chapter College Outreach, Networking, and Nominating committees. Past Chair of the Queens/Brooklyn Chapter Accounting Careers and Education and Meetings/Event Planning committees. Past Chair of the Queens/Brooklyn Chapter COAP Advisory Board. Past Chair of the COAP St. John’s Advisory Board.
Natalie Verbanac Director as Chapter Representative Nassau	Member of the Society since 2002. FIRM: Assurance Services Partner, Marcum LLP, New York, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Past member of the Audit Committee. Past member of the Awards and Not-for-Profit Organizations communities. CHAPTER: Past Nassau Chapter President, President-elect, Vice President, and Secretary. Past Nassau Chapter Executive Board member. Past Co-Chair of the Nassau Chapter Women’s Focus Group. Past Co-Chair of the Nassau Chapter Cooperation with Educational Institutions, Newsletter, and Sponsorship committees. Past Hofstra University Accounting Advisory Board member.

David G. Young Director-at-Large Rochester	Member of the Society since 1998. FIRM: Partner, Young & Company CPAs, LLP, Rochester, N.Y. STATEWIDE: Current member of the Executive Committee. Past Director as Chapter Representative on the Board of Directors. Past member of the Executive Committee. Current member of the Professional Liability Insurance Committee. Past member of the FAE Curriculum and Professional Liability Insurance committees. Past member of the Selections Subcommittee. Past member of the Strategic Planning Task Force. CHAPTER: Past Rochester Chapter Executive Board member. Past Chair of the Rochester Chapter Public Relations Committee. Past member of the Rochester Chapter Taxation Committee.	Rochester
Calvin Harris Jr. Director, ex officio	CEO of The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. Current Executive Director of the Foundation for Accounting Education, Inc., and The Moynihan Scholarship Fund, Inc. Current Treasurer of the New York State Society CPA PAC, Inc.	Manhattan/Bronx