Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Robert Levine, CPA, oversees EisnerAmper University and is an audit partner with a focus on public and private biotechnology, software and other technology related companies. Rob has over 23 years of public accounting experience, including more than 20 years with EisnerAmper. Rob received his Bachelors degree in Accounting from Lehigh University in 1987 and received his license as a Certified Public Accountant from New York State in 1990.

Reed Showalter, Managing Director for the Pacific Northwest Region, is located in the Sacramento office and is a member of the firm’s Life Science Group, part of alliantgroup’s Industry Specialization Program. At alliantgroup, Reed serves as a CPA liaison and provides technical support for the regional directors. He also serves on alliantgroup’s National Technical Review Committee and the Technical Legislative Committee, chairs the internal training program, and is a member of alliantgroup’s Tax Controversy Services (TCS) team.Reed has more than 18 years of experience in accounting, tax, audit, and business consulting with several large regional accounting firms. As part of senior management in these firms, Reed was responsible for advising and consulting clients on various audit and tax issues. Reed has extensive experience in manufacturing and agriculture-related industries as both a tax consultant and from hands-on farming and livestock production. Through consulting work, and managing his own farm-scale composting activities, Reed has extensive experience with waste management and composting companies. Additionally, Reed served as an assistant controller for a midwestern manufacturer of agriculture pumps, where he gained experience in manufacturing, fabrication, and foundry processes.

Joe Woodard is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and Intuit Solution Provider with over 10 years of experience supporting clients who use QuickBooks. Since Joe began teaching QuickBooks 10 years ago, he has taught over 20,000 QuickBooks consultants across the country and he currently works state CPA societies and large CPA firms to present advanced QuickBooks instruction to accounting professionals and software consultants. Joe is the host of the Scaling New Heights conference and is also host and founder of The National Advisor Network.Joe Woodard has earned a unique, national reputation a trainer, consultant and author on Intuit-related topics. Joe periodically provides advisory services to Intuit regarding product development, project management, and Intuit's interaction with accounting professionals. In 2009, Joe self-published the technical manual "Top 100 QuickBooks Tips, Tricks and Workarounds."Joe has built two successful accounting software consulting practices: the first in New Orleans, Louisiana and the second in Atlanta, Georgia – The Woodard Consulting Group. In addition to consulting with small and medium sized businesses, The Woodard Consulting Group provides advisory services to CPA firms and other QuickBooks ProAdvisors/Intuit Solution Providers across the country -- helping them to better service their clients who use Intuit products.In 2009, Joe became the only Method authorized trainer for Method Solution Provider certification in the U.S. Joe hosts Method Certification Boot Camps on a regular basis to prepare professionals to provide Method consulting services to their clients. In 2009 Joe used the Method platform to develop Pendulum - an online timesheet application that integrates with QuickBooks. In 2006, Joe was recognized in The CPA Technology Advisor's first annual 40 Under 40 recognition program as one of the tax and accounting profession's up and coming thought leaders who will help steward the continued evolution of technology in the practice.

Tom Henell is the Chief Marketing Officer and a principal of North American Professional Liability Insurance Agency, LLC (NAPLIA). NAPLIA is a boutique insurance agency that specializes in providing professional liability insurance on a national basis. Through his personally developed approach to “informational marketing”, Tom has grown NAPLIA to be a nationally recognized company named to the INC 5000, list of the fastest growing private companies in America, for the last three years in a row. His previous experience includes working as a Senior Vice President for an international media agency where he worked directly with Fortune 500 companies, including Radio Shack, Xerox, and Pfizer, to develop their online marketing strategies.Tom has spoken at national conferences on the subjects of both Internet marketing and professional liability insurance.

Jennifer L. Katrulya, CPA, is the President & CEO of BMRG, Inc. Since starting the practice in 2004, BMRG has provided outsourced accounting and advisory services to several hundred small and mid-sized privately held companies. In addition, Jennifer provides advisory and mentoring services to growing and large CPA firms seeking to successfully establish Best Practices, educate and motivate management and staff during periods of change, and streamline integrated processes in a hosted and SaaS environment.Jennifer’s prior experience includes over 10 years in public accounting with a specialty in technology consulting. She was also the controller for a large multi-state staffing company, where she managed 19 remote offices and a staff that processed weekly payroll for over 7,500 agency employees.Jennifer lives in Danbury, CT with her husband, Tracy Waldron.

Gopi Mattel is Co-founder, and CEO for CellarStone, Inc., a San Mateo California-based company that provides consulting services in the area of Sales Commissions, Variable and Incentive Pay. Prior to CellarStone, Mattel began developing software to manage incentive compensation after working at The GAP, where he was tasked with implementing such a system in-house. He founded Again Technologies, Inc/Motiva. in 1995, based on his research into the marketplace for this application solution. Motiva was a pioneering vendor in the business space of Incentive Management including variable pay and sales commissions. Motiva was acquired by Siebel and was adopted as its Incentive Management system.Mattel co-founded CellarStone, Inc in 2000 to address the small and mid-market Incentive Management needs. Mattel as part of CellarStone was also instrumental in helping PeopleSoft designing and developing its first Incentive Management system. Mattel has helped execute the development, marketing and sales of SMB sales commission applications such as QCommission and Easy-Commission.Mattel has more than 25 years of experience in systems and project management, especially as it relates to Incentive Compensation. Mattel boasts a wealth of systems design and project experience. Mattel has conceptualized, designed and built software systems to accommodate the Incentive Compensation needs of various industries. He has in addition, marketed and implemented Incentive Compensation systems for corporations in many different industry segments. Mattel has implemented Incentive Compensation systems for companies such as Allied Signal Aerospace, Clorox, Southern California Edison, Wilsons-the Leather Expert, among others. Mattel has held IT and Business management positions at Citibank, The Gap, HBO & Company. Mattel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and Geography from the University of Madras, Chennai, India.

Matthew Schwartz graduated from the College of Engineering at University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Since then, he has spent the last twenty years in the field of custom application development. Matt has worked with everything from small, one man organizations to fortune 500 companies and organizations of every size in between. He has been involved in the development hundreds of applications, databases, and websites spanning dozens of industries. Matt Schwartz is also one of the founders, as well as President and CEO of NELiX TransaX, a company dedicated to bringing new payment processing technologies to the market.

Mike is Managing Partner of Socialstruct Advisory Group. He is a highly-connected research executive with more than a decade’s experience leading nGenera Insight, a world-class think tank. He was responsible for operations, content quality, and client management for $9 million, multi-year research studies on the intersections among technology, business strategy and society including the groundbreaking Talent 2.0 Research Program. He led more than 200 professionals over the course of the programs. The research in these programs formed the basis for the bestselling books Wikinomics: Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World.

Taylor Macdonald is responsible for managing the Sage Intacct Value Added Reseller (VAR) and CPA channel initiatives. Taylor has more than 20 years of experience building and operating some of the largest and most successful channel programs in the world for financial and ERP providers, including Deltek and Sage.Taylor founded Macdonald Consulting Group in 1990, and was named Sage Software's top worldwide business partner five years in a row. Taylor was also named a Top Channel Executive from VARBusiness and Top 50 Channel Champion from CRN for three consecutive years. He was on the Accounting Today list of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting six times.

David J. Sibits was named President, CBIZ Financial Services and joined the company in May 2007. Prior to CBIZ, Mr. Sibits was Executive Managing Director of RSM McGladrey's Ohio region shortly after the acquisition of American Express Tax and Business Services (TBS). He oversaw five offices in Ohio with 30 managing directors and more than 250 employees. Mr. Sibits was the Executive Managing Director of the TBS Eastern Region, which included 35 offices in 13 states. Mr. Sibits was also the Managing Shareholder of Hausser & Taylor LLC from 1992 to January 2004. American Express acquired Hausser & Taylor's tax and consulting firm in Ohio, the seventh largest in Cleveland, and was one of the top 35 accounting firms in the United States.