January 14, 2015
OFFICERS: to hold office for one year, from June 1, 2015:
Click here for the biographies of the 2015-2016 Officer and Board of Directors Nominees.
President Joseph M. Falbo, Jr. automatically succeeds Scott M. Adair as President in accordance with Article VIII, Paragraph 5 of the Bylaws.
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President-elect | | |
F. Michael Zovistoski UHY LLP | to succeed | Joseph M. Falbo, Jr. Tronconi Segarra & Associates LLP |
Vice Presidents | | |
Christopher G. Cahill Deloitte & Touche LLP | to succeed | Harold L. Deiters III Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP |
Jennifer R. George Vanacore, DeBenedictus, DiGovanni & Weddell, LLP | to succeed | Timothy P. Hedley KPMG LLP |
Stephen T. Surace Adjusters International Inc. | to succeed | Scott D. Hosler The Bonadio Group |
Michael M. Todres Todres & Company, LLP | to succeed |
Cynthia A. Scarinci College of Staten Island (CUNY) |
Secretary/Treasurer John J. Lauchert Bestway Enterprises, Inc. |
to succeed |
F. Michael Zovistoski UHY LLP |
DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE: to hold office for three years, from June 1, 2015:
Edward L. Arcara Edward L. Arcara, CPA PC |
to succeed |
Christopher G. Cahill Deloitte & Touche LLP |
Jack M. Carr Bailey, Carr CPAs, P.C. | to succeed |
Peter H. Frank Cornick, Garber & Sandler, LLP |
Elliot L. Hendler Partner Emeritus, Friedman LLP | to succeed | Arthur J. Roth Retired |
Barbara A. Marino The Hackett Group Inc. |
to succeed |
Yen D. Tran PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
Mitchell J. Mertz Wei Wei & Co., LLP | to succeed |
Richard T. Van Osten Ernst & Young LLP |
DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE: to hold office for one year, from June 1, 2015 (should Steven T. Surace be elected to the position of Vice President):
Jeffrey F. Allen EisnerAmper LLP |
to succeed |
Stephen T. Surace Adjusters International Inc. |
DIRECTORS AS CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES: to hold office for three years, from June 1, 2015:
Buffalo:
Patricia A. Johnson
Canisius College | to succeed |
Gregory J. Altman Health Sciences Charter School |
Manhattan/Bronx: Iralma Pozo Baruch College |
to succeed | William Aiken Retired |
Southern Tier:
Janeen F. Sutryk Piaker & Lyons, P.C. |
to succeed |
Scott M. Hotalen Vieira & Associates, CPAs, P.C. |
Syracuse:
Steven A. Stanek Daley LaCombe & Charette P.C. | to succeed | Anthony T. Abboud Firley, Moran, Freer & Eassa, CPA, P.C. |
Westchester:
Denise M. Stefano Mercy College |
to succeed | Barbara E. Bel O'Connor Davies, LLP |
All of the nominees have consented to serve if elected.
Scott M. Adair automatically becomes Director for one year as Immediate Past President in accordance with Article VI, Paragraph 1 of the Bylaws.
DIRECTORS (provided the above nominees are duly elected)
Terms expiring in 2016:
Scott M. Adair, Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority
Jeffrey F. Allen, EisnerAmper LLP
Christopher G. Cahill, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Anthony S. Chan, Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd.
Jack F. Craven, John F. Craven, CPA, LLC
Jennifer R. George, Vanacore, DeBenedictus, DiGovanni & Weddell, LLP
John J. Lauchert, Bestway Enterprises, Inc.
Michael E. Milisits, Hunter Group CPA LLC
Barbara L. Montour, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
Stephen T. Surace, Adjusters International Inc
Tracy D. Tarsio, Day Seckler LLP
Michael M. Todres, Todres & Company LLP
Mark Ulrich, St. John’s University
Beth van Bladel, EYP Architecture & Engineering, P.C.
Mark Weg, Daszkowski, Tompkins, Weg & Carbonella, P.C.
David J. Wojnas, Fitzgerald DePietro & Wojnas CPAs P.C.
Terms expiring in 2017:
Paul E. Becht, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP
Rosemarie Giovinazzo-Barnickel, Rosemarie Giovinazzo-Barnickel, CPA
Joseph M. Falbo Jr., Tronconi Segarra & Associates LLP
Elizabeth A. Haynie, Katz, Bernstein & Katz, LLP
Jan C. Herringer, BDO USA, LLP
Jean G. Joseph, Joseph Tax & Consulting Services LLC
Kevin Matz, Kevin Matz & Associates PLLC
Jacqueline E. Miller, Pinto Mucenski Hooper Van House & Co.
M. Jacob Renick, M. J. Renick & Associates LLC
Warren Ruppel, Marks Paneth LLP
David G. Young, Young & Company CPAs, LLP
Terms expiring in 2018:
Edward L. Arcara, Edward L. Arcara, CPA
Jack M. Carr, Bailey Carr CPAs P.C.
Elliott L. Hendler, Retired
Patricia A. Johnson, Canisius College
Barbara A. Marino, The Hackett Group Inc.
Mitchell J. Mertz, Wei Wei & Co., LLP
Iralma Pozo, Baruch College
Steven A. Stanek, Daley LaCombe & Charette P.C.
Denise M. Stefano, Mercy College
Janeen F. Sutryk, Piaker & Lyons
F. Michael Zovistoski, UHY LLP
Respectfully submitted,
2014–2015 Nominating Committee
Renee Rampulla - (Chair)
Frieda T. Aboyoun
Anthony Chan
David Evangelista
George T. Foundotos
Rosemarie Giovinazzo-Barnickel
Jeremy Noble
Felix Russo
John S. Shillingsford
Liren Wei
Alan E. Weiner
A ballot listing the nominees with their service records will be sent to the Society’s voting membership before the Society’s Annual Election Meeting and Dinner, to be held on May 14, 2015. Any independent nominees submitted by March 1, 2015 as discussed below, will be included in the proxy ballot. I urge all members to carefully examine the ballot information and vote.
Independent nominations
According to Article X of the Society’s Bylaws, independent nominations for an officer or elected director may be made by a petition filed with the Secretary/Treasurer by March 1. (See NYSSCPA Bylaws.) These candidates are then added to the ballot, along with those individuals nominated by the nominating committee.
Pursuant to the Bylaws, any submitted petition for independent nominees requires at least 510 signatures of CPA members (2 percent of the CPA membership as of the beginning of the fiscal year, which totaled 25,497 this year), other than that of the nominee, and must certify that the nominee has consented to serve if elected. To be eligible for the position of a Society officer or director, a nominee must (i) be a CPA member of the NYSSCPA; (ii) have at least five years’continuous membership in the Society; and (iii) have at least two years of participation either on a Society-level committee or as a member of the executive board of a chapter, or some combination of both.
Independent nomination petition forms may be downloaded from the website’s nomination center, located at www.nysscpa.org/page/about-us/governance/nomination-center, and should be sent to the NYSSCPA Secretary/Treasurer as follows:
F. Michael Zovistoski, CPA
NYSSCPA Secretary/Treasurer
NYSSCPA
14 Wall Street, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Annual Election Meeting and Dinner: date and place
Based on the votes cast in the ballot, the officers and directors for 2015–2016 will be elected during the 118th Annual Election Meeting and Dinner on Thursday, May 14, at the Eventi Hotel in New York City. Official notice of the meeting will be included in the April issue of The Trusted Professional.
Contact information
If you have any questions about this process, please feel free to contact me at secretarytreasurer@nysscpa.org, or the Society’s Counsel Bradley M. Pryba, at bpryba@nysscpa.org.