A focus on growth and recognition for the Southern Tier Chapter
By Greg Carpenter
Southern Tier Chapter President
It is with great honor that I write to you as president of our local chapter, the Southern Tier of the NYSSCPA. My name is Greg Carpenter, and I have been a partner of a Binghamton-based firm, Johnson, Lauder, & Savidge, for six-plus years. I began my accounting career at the same firm in 2011, after earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematical sciences and a master’s in accounting from Binghamton University. I have spent my career focusing on client’s needs, and I plan on putting that same focus on our needs as accountants and as a chapter.
The Southern Tier is a great place to live and to work, and I hope to encourage growth in our chapter as well as recognition at the state level. I will work hard with the NYSSCPA and its employees to bring us the best events, both social and CPE (with some sociality mixed in of course). I plan to honor the 70-year legacy that is our chapter by putting my best foot forward to achieve our goals. And although it will be hard to improve upon where my predecessors have placed our chapter as it currently stands, I plan to leave it better (even if ever so slightly) than I found it. Thank you for the nomination, and I look forward to the upcoming year.
gcarpenter@jlscpa.com
The Southern Tier is located on the Pennsylvanian border of New York State, lying northwest of New York City and southwest of the State Capitol of Albany. Containing Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Delaware, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tompkins counties, the region boasts some of the state’s finest natural resources and agriculture, as well as significant educational institutions and readiness for manufacturing companies.
In addition to housing both a booming tourism industry and dozens of prominent universities such as Binghamton and Cornell, the Southern Tier is also the location of many businesses that employ over 350,000 highly-skilled workers.
While mostly known for industrial machinery and materials processing, and contributing to the electronics, imaging, and simulation industries, businesses choose the Southern Tier for its proximity to the marketplace, abundant natural resources, and its extremely well-educated workforce.