Retired BDO audit / assurance partner. 39 years CPA experienced with primary focus in the community banking space, including heavy SEC and SOX experience. Interested in pursuing board opportunities with NJ based community banks - public or private. In the meantime, pursuing self-actualization interests including (1) writing and performing original rock and roll music (as posted on YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud); (2) learning the Korean language, (3) improving my golf game, and (4) being a better person.

Alan was an audit partner and a member of the BDO's financial institution practice group for six years. He has 39 years of public accounting and auditing experience, including six years with KPMG within its financial institutions practice. Alan has extensive experience in the accounting, auditing and regulatory requirements related to financial institutions in general and publicly traded institutions in particular. He has assisted many institutions with the implementation of new accounting standards and also with their initial public stock offerings and subsequent public reporting requirements. Alan’s experience includes serving commercial banks, savings banks and thrift institutions of various sizes and stages, from de novo start-ups to well-established institutions with up to $10 billion in assets. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, Financial Managers Society, and Northern New Jersey Community Bankers.

Beard Miller Company LLP merged with Parente Randolph to form ParenteBeard LLC in October 2009. ParenteBeard was the Mid Atlantic’s leading regional certified public accounting and consulting firm and served middle market and small business clients across the region. Upon the merger, the 170 partner firm had 26 offices located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Delaware and Texas. The number of partners and offices has declined since.

Beard Miller Company was a leading Mid Atlantic regional certified public accounting and consulting firm with over 500 employees serving middle market and small business clients across the region. The 80+ partner firm had 13 offices located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Maryland. The firm was ranked among the Top 40 firms in the USA prior to joining with Parente Randolph on October 1, 2009, to create a new firm, ParenteBeard LLC.

Radics & Co., LLC was a local New Jersey public accounting and consulting firm with 4 partners and approximately 25 employees primarily serving financial institution clients in NJ and NY. The firm was the dominant player in its market in regard to thrift institution audit and tax services. In April 2005, the firm merged into Beard Miller Company LLP

Audit manager specializing in financial institutions; also, significant experiernce gained in hospital and manufacturing clients.

Performed audit, review and compilation engagements as well as corporate, non-profit and personnel tax return assignments for a 3 partner, 12 employee CPA firm located in Manhattan [NYC]