- Trammell Crow
F. Trammell Crow (born June 11, 1914, in Dallas, Texas) is an American property developer who created several famous projects, including Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center (Atlanta, Georgia), and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. - Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor is a certified public accountant and a politician from the Republican Party from the state of Ohio. Taylor currently serves as Ohio State Auditor. She previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives. Taylor defeated Democratic candidate Barbara Sykes. Taylor, who succeeded fellow Republican Betty Montgomery as State Auditor, took office in January of 2007. - Sherron Watkins
Sherron Watkins is the former Vice President of Enron Corporation who alerted then-CEO Ken Lay in August 2001 to accounting irregularities within the company, warning him that Enron 'might implode in a wave of accounting scandals.' She has testified before Congressional Committees from the House and Senate investigating Enron's demise. - Dan Onorato
Daniel "Dan" Onorato (born 1961) is the current County Executive of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. A life-long resident of Allegheny County, he attended Penn State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1983. He worked several years as a Certified Public Accountant before continuing his education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, earning a Juris Doctor in 1989. - Cynthia Cooper
Cynthia Cooper is an internal auditor and consultant who is best known for being the whistleblower who exposed massive accounting fraud at WorldCom in 2002. A native of Clinton, Mississippi, Cooper worked as the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom. After conducting a thorough investigation in secret, she informed the audit committee of WorldCom's board that the company had covered up $3.8 billion in losses through phony bookkeeping. - Les Merritt
Leslie ("Les") Merritt is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of North Carolina and the current North Carolina State Auditor, elected in the 2004 statewide elections. Merritt, a native of Zebulon, North Carolina, earned degrees in economics and accounting from North Carolina State University. A Certified Public Accountant, Merritt served as the president of the Zebulon Lions and Rotary clubs, and of the Zebulon Elementary School PTA. - Susan Montee
Susan Montee (born 1960) is the State Auditor of Missouri. Montee, a Democrat, won election in November 2006 and was sworn into her position on January 4, 2007. Montee was born and raised in St. Joseph, Missouri. Her father was shot down in Vietnam in 1966.http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/h/h182.htm She received her undergraduate degree in accounting from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri and later attained her CPA designation. - Scott Sullivan
Scott D. Sullivan is an American Certified Public Accountant and the former Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary of WorldCom, who engineered WorldCom's $11-billion accounting fraud, the largest scandal of its kind in U.S. history. Sullivan entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea agreement in which Sullivan testified against former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, … - Richard Causey
Richard Alan Causey (born 9 January 1960) is one of the prominent figures in the Enron accounting scandal. Causey was Enron's Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Causey graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in accounting and an MBA. He then became a certified public accountant in the state of Texas. - Herman Badillo
Herman Badillo (born August 21, 1929 in Caguas, Puerto Rico) is a Bronx, New York politician who has been a borough president, United States Representative, and candidate for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Puerto Rican to be elected to these posts (and run for mayor) in the United States (outside of Puerto Rico). When Badillo was 11 years old, both of his parents died of tuberculosis and he was sent to live with his aunt in New York City. - Carl Isett
Carl Hawkins Isett (born March 7, 1957) is a Certified Public Accountant from Lubbock who has been a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1997. Isett was initially elected in House District 84 in 1996 to succeed Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock, who was elected to the Texas State Senate. Isett defeated the Democrat Don Richards in what has become a strongly Republican legislative district. - Curt Bramble
Curt Bramble is an American politician and Certified Public Accountant from Utah. A Republican, he is a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 16th senate district in Provo. Bramble is the Majority Leader in the Utah Senate. - Francisco T. Dalupan Sr.
Dr. Francisco T. Dalupan, Sr. is the founder and first Chairman of the Board and the President of the University of the East (UE). He is the father of the legendary Filipino basketball coach Baby Dalupan. Dalupan graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University. Before founding UE, he co-founded the Far Eastern University, which was then headed by Nicanor Reyes Sr., then serving as a professor at the University of the Philippines Department of Economics. - Homer Pace
Homer St. Clair Pace (April 131879-May 221942) was an American business educator and innovator in the field of accountancy who, along with his brother Charles Ashford Pace, founded Pace University in New York. A native of Rehoboth, Ohio, Homer Pace first worked as an assistant to his father, John Fremont Pace, a Civil War veteran, in editing and publishing a weekly newspaper. He left journalism following his father's death in 1896. - Nobuzo Tohmatsu
was a paymaster in the Imperial Japanese Navy who went on to become an accountant and a namesake of the global auditing firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Born in Gunma Prefecture, Tohmatsu graduated from the Naval Paymaster Academy in 1917 and served on several ships over the next five years, including "Fusō", "Asama", "Hyūga", "Izumo", "Mogami", and "Shiretoko". - David Rachford
David S. Rachford, CPA is the founder of The CPA Marketing Center in Santa Barbara, CA, which provides marketing services and products to Certified Public Accountants, and Tax Accountants nationwide. - George Muñoz
George Muñoz Is currently President of Muñoz Investment Banking Group, LLC, a Washington, D.C. based firm focused on emerging markets and the U.S. Hispanic community. In addition, he is a Partner at Tobin, Petkus & Muñoz, a Chicago law firm focused on commercial and international transactions; the law firm also has a Washington, DC office. Mr. Muñoz is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, … - Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch is a chief operating officer at the video game developer Valve Corporation. Prior to joining Valve, Scott was Senior Vice President at Havas Interactive where he created and managed the Sierra Studios business unit publishing a number of products, including "Half-Life". During his five-year tenure at Sierra Entertainment, Scott held a number of different positions in business development, acquisitions, finance, investor relations, and product development. - Thomas M. Salmon
Thomas M. "Tom" Salmon is the current Vermont Auditor of Accounts. Salmon was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He attended Worcester Academy and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Boston College. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Salmon served on the Rockingham, Vermont board of selectmen beginning in 1993. In the 2006 Vermont Auditor of Accounts election, Salmon challenged Republican incumbent Randolph D. "Randy" Brock. - Nancy Wyman
Nancy S. Wyman is the first woman elected State Comptroller of Connecticut since the office was created in 1786. As comptroller, Wyman is the chief fiscal guardian for the State of Connecticut. As State Comptroller, Wyman also oversees the state health plan for 188,000 state employees, retirees and their dependents. A Democrat, Wyman was first elected statewide in 1994 after defeating Republican Gene Gavin a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). - Paul Locatelli
Rev. Paul Locatelli, S.J. is president and professor of accounting at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. He is a Jesuit priest and a Certified Public Accountant, earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Santa Clara, now Santa Clara University, in 1960 and his doctorate in business at the University of Southern California. During Fr. Locatelli's tenure as president, beginning in 1988, academic excellence, admissions standards, … - Michael Capellas
Michael D. Capellas , president and CEO of MCI, recently confirmed his participation as speakers at WCIT 2006. Capellas is a 30-year veteran of the information technology business and an established thought leader in areas ranging from information technology, telecommunications and homeland security to the next generation of consumer electronics. Prior to joining MCI in December 2002, he was president of Hewlett-Packard Company. Previously, he was the chairman and CEO of Compaq. - Stanley Rader
Stanley R. Rader (August 13, 1930 - July 2, 2002), was an attorney, accountant, author and, later in life, an ordained minister in the Worldwide Church of God, then a Sabbatarian organization, which was founded by Herbert W. Armstrong. - David J. Lesar
David J. Lesar, age 52, is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen. He had spent most of his career at Andersen, where he worked on their Halliburton account. In 1995, Lesar was hired by Halliburton as a new vice president. Three months later he had a new boss, Dick Cheney. Within a year of his arrival, Cheney had fired Tommy Knight—a 32-year Kellogg, … - Sigi Schmid
Siegfried "Sigi" Schmid is a soccer coach who currently heads the Columbus Crew. Schmid moved from Germany to Torrance, California in 1962. He received a B.S. in economics from UCLA in 1976, and an M.A in Business Administration from USC. He is a Certified Public Accountant. He played (and started) in midfield at UCLA between 1972 and 1975. He was an assistant coach at UCLA in 1977 and 1979, before becoming head of the program in 1980. - John B. T. Campbell III
John Bayard Taylor Campbell III (born July 19, 1955, in Los Angeles, California) is a Republican U.S. politician, who is currently a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing California's 48th Congressional District. - George A. Burton
George Aubrey Burton, Jr. (born June 21, 1926), is a Certified Public Accountant who was the last elected finance commissioner in Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Burton was also the first Republican since Reconstruction to have been elected to municipal office in Shreveport, having served as finance commissioner from 1971-1978. He is currently the president of the Caddo Parish Board of Election Supervisors. - Drew Nixon
Drew Eldred Nixon (born November 21 1959) was a Texas state senator from 1995 to 2001, largely known for a tabloid sex scandal. After graduating from Carthage High School, Nixon attended Panola Junior College and Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, where he graduated "summa cum laude" in 1982 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting. Nixon is a Certified Public Accountant. - Thomas J. Pickard
Thomas J. Pickard was the eleventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, following Louis Freeh and taking office in 2001. Born in Woodside, Queens, New York. He graduated from Saint Francis College in Brooklyn, and subsequently received his Master's degree from St. John's University in Jamaica, Queens. He is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed by the state of New York. Pickard began his career as a Special Agent of the FBI on January 13, 1975, … - Francis P. Farquhar
Francis Peloubet Farquhar (31 December 1887, Newton, Massachusetts - 21 November 1974 in Berkeley, California) graduated from Harvard and came to San Francisco to set up in practice as a Certified Public Accountant. Francis Farquhar was an active Sierra Club leader and served as its president 1933-1935 and 1948-1949, "Sierra Club Bulletin" editor from 1926 to 1946, and in other club offices as director from 1924 to 1951. - Noah Dietrich
Noah Dietrich (February 28, 1889 - February 15, 1982) was the chief executive officer of the Howard Hughes empire from 1925 until 1957. Dietrich was born in Madison, Wisconsin to Lutheran minister John Dietrich and the former Sarah Peters. In 1910 he started out in Maxwell, New Mexico in business, and later moved to Los Angeles and New York City before moving back to Los Angeles. There he passed the CPA exam. In 1925, at the age of 36, Dietrich met Hughes, … - Ed Grier
Ed Grier is president of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, which comprises the Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure theme parks, the Disneyland Hotel, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel, and the Downtown Disney retail, dining and entertainment district. He reports to Al Weiss, president of operations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Before joining the Disneyland Resort in July 2006, … - Norris Poulson
C. Norris Poulson (July 23, 1895 - September 25, 1982) served as mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California state assemblyman and then a member of the United States Congress for eight years. Born in Baker County, Oregon to Danish parents, Poulson attended Oregon State University for two years before marrying Erna June Loennig on December 25, 1916. The couple arrived in Los Angeles in 1923, … - Jim Cantalupo
James Richard Cantalupo was an American executive, serving as chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation until his sudden death by heart attack at the age of 60. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Cantalupo earned a degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. He became a certified public accountant and worked for Arthur Young for eight years before joining McDonald's. - Edward J. Gardner
Edward Joseph Gardner was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio’s third congressional district. Edward J. Gardner was born in Hamilton, Ohio, the son of Edward Gardner and his wife Mary. His father came from Ireland as a child; his mother was born in Ohio. Edward Gardner attended the local parochial schools and was graduated from the College of Commerce and Finance of St. Xavier University in 1920. - Kelly Downard
Patrick Kelly Downard is the Republican Councilman for the 16th District of Louisville Metro in Kentucky in the United States of America and served as Metro Council President from 2004 to 2005. Downard previously held the title of President of Louisville Community Development Bank, which he was appointed to by Mayor Jerry E. Abramson. - Thomas A. Gaitens
Thomas A. Gaitens (McDonald, Pennsylvania) is the managing shareholder of Thomas Gaitens & Co., P.C. He is a CPA, a certified valuation analyst and a diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Accounting. Mr. Gaitens was a general practice manager with the international accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. He is now the managing shareholder of Thomas Gaitens & Co., P.C. Thomas A. Gaitens was born on May 4, 1947, and is currently married and has six children. - Gregory McMahon
Gregory McMahon (March 19, 1915 - died 1989) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New York City, he attended a parochial school and was graduated from St. John's Prep School (Brooklyn) in 1933 and from St. John's University in 1938. He also attended St. John's Law School from 1939 to 1941 and was a certified public accountant since 1939. He taught at St. - Samuel D. Leidesdorf
Samuel David Leidesdorf, (1881-1968) internationally known accountant, recently inducted into the CPA Hall of Fame. Leidesdorf, an internally known accountant, was born on September 25, 1881 in New York City. He attended the New York School of Accounting and Pace College. In 1905, he began his own accounting firm, S.D. Leidesdorf & Co., certified public accountants, which grew and eventually became one of the largest accounting firms in the nation. - Margaret B. Kelly
Margaret Blake Kelly (born September 17, 1935) is an American accountant and politician from Missouri. She served as the state's auditor from 1984 to 1999. She was the first woman to hold statewide office in Missouri, and the fourth Certified Public Accountant to hold the auditor's position. She is a Republican. Kelly was born in Crystal City, Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1957.
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