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Jim Cole , CPA, CGMA, is the CEO for the Masonic Home of Virginia, a Richmond-based continuing care retirement community. Formerly controller of the Virginia Tech Foundation, he held several administrative positions at Virginia Tech following his tenure with an international accounting firm. His 35 years of experience with nonprofits and businesses includes roles as auditor, founder, officer and director of numerous organizations. He has been a licensed life insurance agent and holds two degrees from Virginia Tech. Jim is a former Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA) Board member and formerly chaired the VSCPA Business and Industry Conference Task Force. He has been a co-author of the 2014 – 2017 Ethics courses and an ethics instructor for 14 years. Robert (Bob) H. Cox , J.D., MBA, is a trial attorney with over two decades of experience litigating all types of business cases in courts across the nation. His experience covers a wide range of matters involving securities, business torts, contracts, antitrust, intellectual property, real estate and white collar criminal issues. He has represented parties in class actions, multi-district litigation (MDLs), government enforcement actions, private business disputes and appeals in federal and state courts. Bob has experience managing all of a telecommunications company’s litigation over a several year period, totaling well over 100 separate pieces of litigation in courts throughout the United States. The telecommunications company had a forum selection provision in its contracts setting the federal court in Alexandria and the Fairfax Circuit Court as the venue for a majority of the cases. Bob not only took part in the management of these cases, he participated in the litigation of many of these matters, including examining witnesses at hearings and trial, taking and defending depositions, arguing key motions (i.e., summary judgment and dismissal), and drafting briefs and other pleadings. Bob also has substantial experience in securities enforcement and regulatory matters involving accounting firms and auditors. Bob regularly represents accounting firms, corporations, corporate officers and directors, and financial industry professionals in civil, criminal and regulatory matters, including investigations and enforcement proceedings before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). In addition, he conducts internal investigations and provides compliance counseling to prevent such investigations. He also represents accounting firms and accountants in professional ma lpractice matters. Prior to joining Briglia Hundley, Bob was an assistant director in the PCAOB’s Division of Enforcement and Investigations for more than six years. While with the PCAOB, he handled numerous enforcement investigations and disciplinary proceedings against domestic and international accounting firms and auditors, including matters involving the Big Four and other Global Network accounting firms. He also coordinated enforcement matters with the SEC, FINRA and foreign regulatory bodies. Before the PCAOB, Bob was a partner at the largest litigation-focused law firm in the country where he handled complex antitrust, commercial and securities cases. Bob has authored several articles and treatises chapters on topics involving securities, antitrust, and litigation. For example, he is co- author of Chapter 11, Securities Damages” in Boushie, Spadea, & Cunniff, Calculating and Proving Damages (Law Journal Press 2011), a leading treatise on damages. He is also the author of Chapter 6, Collateral Estoppel and Prima Facie Effect, Antitrust Evidence Handbook, Third Edition (ABA 2016). Bob has substantial experience teaching trial advocacy, including training litigators in depositions, examination of expert witnesses and direct examination and cross-examination at trial. In addition, he has frequently spoken at professional conferences, training workshops, and continuing legal education courses, such as the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va. and the Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA). Maureen Dingus , CAE, is the chief operating officer at the Virginia Society of CPAs. Maureen works to achieve the VSCPA's mission, vision and goals through oversight of strategy and internal operations. She began her career at the VSCPA as a marketing coordinator in 1993 and is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. Krista Edoff, CPA, is a Partner in Cherry Bekaert’s Hampton Roads practice, Krista has over twelve years of experience providing attestation services to governmental, commercial and nonprofit clients. As a member of the Firm’s Government Services industry group, local governments depend on Krista’s expertise in performing financial and compliance audits (including single audits). She also delivers audit , review, agreed-upon procedure and consulting services to middle- market clients within the manufacturing, distribution and retail industries. Krista’s duties encompass all aspects of these services from planning, performing, supervising, reporting and wrapping-up the engagement, to direct communication and value- added services to her clients. Before joining Cherry Bekaert in 2002, Krista was employed in public accounting in Florida and South Carolina, where her primary focuses were governmental accounting and small business taxation. She has been both an internal and external instructor for government-related CPE. Lisa Germano , CPA, CGMA, J.D., is president and general counsel of Actuarial Benefits & Design Company (AB&DC), an organization that assists business owners and key executives to establish and monitor retirement income goals, maintain retirement plan compliance, satisfy reporting and disclosre to government agencies and assist with internal controls and plan governance. Lisa is a member of the Virginia Bar and is licensed as a CPA by the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is a principal in the law firm of Coyner & Germano, located in Charlottesville. Lisa founded two 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations; one for ovarian cancer research and the other a private-public partnership for public school funding for athletics and other nonacademic programs that keep students engaged. Lisa is immediate past chair of the Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA) Board of Directors and has served on the Board and has chaired numerous high-level committies for the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). She was appointed by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Shulman to his Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee. She currently serves on the committee for the IRS EP/EO 2017 Joint Council meeting, co-chairs the IRS Mid-Atlantic Pension Liaison Group and was co-chair of the 2014 AICPA National Employee Benefits Conference. In 2015, Lisa received the Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award from the AICPA. In 2011, she was inducted as a fellow into the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel for her contributions in the employee benefits field and also in that year received the inaugural AICPA Sustained Contribution Award for her contributions to the CPA profession. In 1996 Lisa received the Hammer Award from Vice President Gore for voluntary service on regulatory work for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. She authors several newsletters and speaks frequently on employee retirement plan related topics, small business leadership and nonprofit governance and professional networking. Follow her on Twitter at @LisaGermanoCPA. Mike Glynn , CPA, CGMA, is a senior technical manager in the AICPA Audit and Attest Standards Team. He serves as the staff liaison to the Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC). In addition, Mike supports the activities of Auditing Standards Board (ASB) and its subcommittees by assisting members in drafting and deliberating authoritative professional standards and interpretations.