As part of WEL's succession plan, effective October 1, 2024, I will serve as President for 12 months to prepare our President-Elect, Debra Lage to takeover. This upcoming year is going to be a gamechanger as we "reimagine" our strategic plan and collaborate with 2 superpower alliances that will offer our members more personalized executive leadership and board leadership services, board certifications, coaching, visibility to board searches, bootcamps, and more.

Florida not-for-profit organization with a mission to Advocate, Educate and Connect women business leaders. WEL continues to drive gender parity in the C-Suite and the Boardroom and is a resource for companies to help identify board-ready and executive female candidates.Created WEL in 1999 the same year as making Partner with E&Y. Over the years have led, facilitated, and participated in multiple board bootcamps for publicly held board positions and private equity advisory board positions. Hold quarterly programs that include board of director panel discussions covering top board issues, SEC updates, publicly held v private equity board roles, industry trends and other relevant topics.

Second-largest enrollment in the Florida College System with 56,000 students and 4,000 faculty and staffServed as an interim Trustee for 16 months to help with the execution of the strategic and social enterprise plans and process improvement with focused assignments to procurement and contracts, budget, and finance.

Crowe is the Eighth largest global Audit, Tax, Advisory, and Consulting firm Client Service Partner 2009 -2023 Office Managing Partner 2020 - 2023National Healthcare Tax Practice Leader 2014 – 2020Partner Screening Committee 2015 and 2016 Executive Board Nominating Committee 2014Lead Partner on professional service outsourcing engagements managing M&A, spin-offs, due diligence, legal entity structuring, integration planning, buy and sell-side planning, including ongoing federal/state/international tax planning, compliance, tax controversy and audits, tax provisions, cross border transactions, debt restructuring and recapitalization, tax-efficient supply chain planning, VAT planning, transfer pricing, IPO’s, bankruptcies, and reorganizations. Work closely with boards and executives concerning business trends, competition, strategic opportunities, and cost/risk/benefit analyses.Served as lead tax accounting partner on financial statement audits for Fortune 500, middle market, and private equity owned companies.Managed 12 partners and 175 employees as Office Managing Partner while continuing to serve client base. Successfully increased market penetration and employee recruiting and retention as well as lease negotiations, including RFP’s and proposal meetings, branding Crowe in the marketplace, community involvement, networking partners and senior managers in the market, and worked through the COVID-19 crisis.As Crowe’s National Healthcare Tax Practice Leader transformed this practice from a traditional not-for-profit healthcare client base to include publicly held, privately held, and private equity owned healthcare companies. Grew 600% in net tax revenue. Led and facilitated in Crowe’s San Francisco office private equity healthcare venues around the annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference resulting in significant ROI.

Big 4 global accounting and professional services firmTax Partner Recruited in 2004 from EY as a Direct Admit Partner to help build KPMG’s Fort Lauderdale tax practice.. Expanded tax client base from serving mostly middle market clients to include up-market clients,

Big 4 global accounting and professional services firm Tax Partner 1999 – 2004Lead partner for major Florida hospital systems. Significantly retooled and expanded industry experiences and client base to include publicly held companies. Senior Tax Manager 1994 - 1999Provided tax services primarily to healthcare systems.

Big 4 global accounting and professional services firm (formerly Coopers & Lybrand)Senior Tax Manager 1993 – 1994Tax Manager, Consulting Practice 1991 - 1993 Tax Manager, Compliance 1990 – 1991

A regional accounting and advisory services firmTax Manager 1988 -1990Tax Senior Associate 1987- 1988Audit Senior Associate 1985 - 1987Audit Associate 1983 - 1985Intern 1982 - 1983