Membership News

Executive board nominees announced

Apr 05, 2012

The Ohio Society of CPAs Nominating Committee has unanimously recommended Robert Zunich, CPA/ABV, as OSCPA's 2012-2013 chair-elect candidate for the Executive Board. If accepted by members, he will serve as chair of the Board for the 2013-2014 activity year.

If elected chair, Zunich plans to focus on several issues facing the profession, including standards overload and fees.

“Our profession has a problem with regulation overload,” he said. “It’s amazing to me that we can have three to four partners sitting in a room talking about a technical issue, and we struggle with compliance. This doesn’t seem right.”

He said that poses further challenges to CPAs, who must turn around and explain issues to customers in a way they can understand.

The chair-elect serves a three-year term on the Executive Board, one year each as chair-elect, chair and past chair.

Phillip Wilson, CPA is the vice chair of finance nominee. Executive Board Director nominees are:

  • Ron Antal, CPA, MST, Stowe
  • William Chorba, III, CPA, CGMA, Beachwood
  • Christopher Dean, CPA, Columbus 
  • Kathleen Hoover, CPA, Solon
  • Kenneth Haffey, CPA, CVA, Mayfield Village
  • Glenn Roberts, CPA, Eaton

Continuing Executive Board members are:

  • Teresa S. Haught, CPA, Cincinnati
  • Richard L. Heidebrink, CPA, Toledo
  • James J. Keeslar, CPA, Akron
  • Kent D. Pummel, CPA/ ABV, CVA, Springfield
  • Kendra P. Smith, CPA, Cincinnati
  • Paul Weisinger, CPA/ABV, CVA, Cleveland

At the Society’s Annual Meeting on June 19, Brendan P. Fitzgerald, CPA, partner with Sustin, Bartell & Waldman Ltd. in Cleveland, will take office as the 2012-2013 chair of the board. James D. Gottfried, CPA, JD, retired partner with Ernst & Young LLP in Cleveland, will continue as a member of the Executive Board serving as past chair.

Also in the March/April issue of CPA Voice:

  • Learn what Ohio’s oil & gas boom means for you in a special report on this burgeoning business.
  • The Ohio Society of CPAs took a significant step forward in the 20-year-old fight to achieve a more efficient and cost-effective municipal income tax code in Ohio.
  • We’ll tell you how OSCPA’s governmental affairs team has worked closely with state and federal legislators, as well as executive branch officials, to make a positive difference for Ohio CPAs.
  • How Ohio’s tax amnesties help all Ohioans
  • Revenue recognition standard to challenge many businesses
  • How the Supreme Court’s decision could impact health care reform
  • Shaping fiscal integrity: The Fraud Triangle Technology
  • Moving your business to the cloud? What CPAs need to know