| Donald
Alexander, Attorney, B.A. (Yale), LL.B. (Harvard, Magna Cum Laude),
LL.D. (Capital University, St. Thomas Institute—honorary), is a partner
in the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. (offices
in Texas, New York, Brussels, Moscow) and former Commissioner of the Internal
Revenue Service. |
| Robert
A. Behren, CPA, Attorney, B.B.A., M.B.A., J.D. (N.Y.U.), LL.M.
(N.Y.U.), was a Professor (Department of Economics) at City University of
New York for over 15 years and a practicing CPA and attorney for over 30
years. He has authored or edited over 1,000 published articles on accounting
and financial management, some of which have been cited, as authority for
their decisions, by the highest courts in the country (including the U.S.
Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Tax Court). He has
founded and published leading financial magazines (including The Practical
Accountant) and newsletters (including Clients Monthly Alert)
for over 20 years (and has received a Presidential Commendation for Publishing
from Ronald Reagan). |
| Sheldon
S. Cohen, B.A. in Accounting (with special honors), J.D. (with
highest honors, first in class), George Washington University, is counsel
to the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in the Washington, D.C. office
and former Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. He is listed in
Euromoney's guide as one of the world's leading tax lawyers, has assisted
the U.N. on special missions to create tax systems for developing countries,
and is the author of numerous tax articles. He is a past recipient of the
Arthur S. Fleming Award (as one of the outstanding young men in government),
the Alexander Hamilton Award (the highest honor given by the U.S. Treasury
Department), and the Alumni Achievement Award for George Washington University. |
| Mary
L. C. Flood, CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), CFP (Certified
Financial Planner), M.B.A. (Finance), has been a delegate to the White House
Small Business Conference and Chair of the White House Conference Capital
Formation Implementation. |
| Robert
L. Israeloff, CPA, AEP (Accredited Estate Planner), B.S. (Wharton),
MBA (Taxation, Baruch College), is past Chairman of the Board of the American
Institute of CPAs, past President of the New York State Society of CPAs,
and an active member of a number of professional organizations. He is the
founder and Officer of Israeloff, Trattner & Co., CPAs, P.C., and has
served as a noted speaker and author of numerous articles on professional
issues. He was awarded the AICPA Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, the
CPA profession's highest honor, and selected by Accounting Today
as one of the 100 most influential CPAs in the United States. He is an approved
NYS Supreme Court Mediator and Advisory Board Member of the C.W. Post and
Hofstra University Accounting Schools. |
| Sidney
Kess, CPA, Attorney, B.B.A., J.D. (Harvard), LL.M. (NYU), is
former National Director of Taxes at KMG Main Hurdman and former partner
at KPMG Peat Marwick. Probably the best-known CPE lecturer, he has lectured
to more than 600,000 practitioners and lay persons on tax, financial and
estate planning. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen major
books (including 32 editions each of the AICPA's Individual and Corporate
Tax Workshops), edited 4 major Newsletters, and authored hundreds of video
and audio courses. |
| Diahann
W. Lassus, CPA, CFP (Certified Financial Planner), MBA, BS (Management),
is a co-owner of Lassus Wherley & Associates, PC. She has taught at
several colleges. Her service with the Institute of Certified Financial
Planners includes service on the Board of Governors of the Board of Standards,
past National Board Member and past Chair of the Certification Committee.
She was President of the National Association of Women Business Owners and
the NJ Association of Women Business Owners and was named the U.S. Small
Business Administration’s NJ Women in Business Advocate. She is frequently
quoted and has been profiled in leading national publications (including
The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and Money)
and was selected as one of "America’s Top 200 Financial Advisors"
by Worth magazine. |
| Harry
M. Markowitz, Ph.D., is winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
for his development of the "portfolio theory," which determines
the combinations of assets that minimize risk on the portfolio as a whole.
His "asset allocation" concept has become an accepted standard
for modern investment analysis. |
| Jay
N. Nisberg, Ph.D., founder and President of the Accountants Financial
Services Group, is an internationally known consultant to the accounting
profession, concentrating on practice management and business development,
for nearly 20 years. He has been a discussion leader and professional development
coordinator for the American Institute of CPAs and a lecturer at many accounting
societies and universities. He is the author of two nationally known business
reference books published by Random House and has been a consultant to numerous
major corporations, including General Motors, RCA and the White House. He
is frequently quoted as an expert on accounting issues in such newspapers
as The Wall Street Journal, Accounting Today and Public Accounting
Report. |
| Shirley
D. Peterson, A.B. (Bryn Mawr, cum laude), J.D. (NYU, Honor Scholar),
is a former Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Assistant Attorney
General in charge of the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Recently retired as President of Hood College, she had practiced law for
over 20 years at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington D.C. She was active
in the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, serving on its Council
and as Chair of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee. She was a Regent of the
American College of Tax Counsel and the American College of Trust and Estate
Council as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Tax
& Policy Institute. A long-time champion of tax simplification, she
was appointed by then Senator Dole to serve on the National Commission on
Economic Growth and Tax Reform. She is a Trustee of the Kemper Mutual Funds,
a Director of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, a Director of the National
Legal Center for the Public Interest, and a Trustee of Bryn Mawr College. |
| Jerome
J. Shestak, A.B. (University of Pennsylvania), LL.B. (Harvard).
He is past President of the American Bar Association and past chairman of
ALI-ABA. He served on the Board of Editors of the ABA Journal and the ABA
Board of Governors, and is a member of the ABA House of Delegates. He chairs
the Litigation Department of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia
and is regularly listed in Best Lawyers in America and in the National Law
Journal's 100 Most Influential Lawyers. He is a fellow of the American College
of Trial Lawyers. He is former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Commission
on Human Rights and is on the Executive Committee on the International Commission
of Jurists and the American Society of International Law. He has been a
professor or lecturer at numerous law schools, including Pennsylvania, Harvard,
Yale, Columbia, N.Y.U., Oxford, Northwestern, and L.S.U. He has published
more than 40 law journal articles and more than 150 op-ed articles in major
newspapers and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. |
