Erica Vogt has been a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for over twenty years. She began her career as a CPA with BKD, LLP. She moved to China for three-and-a-half years as a member of the faculty of Guangxi Normal University and administered middle school scholarship programs and set up adult literacy programs. She later returned to the United States and her career as a senior financial and operations executive. Her experience includes driving financial, HR, and operational improvements to strengthen organizational infrastructures in both for-profit and nonprofit environments. She has overseen treasury management, financial planning, budgeting, corporate accounting, finance, investments, compliance, accounts payable, purchasing, internal controls, risk management, insurance programs, information technology, federal funds, organizational security, facilities management, records management, veterans services, accounts receivable, payroll, employee benefits, corporate contracts, and capital construction with strengths in fiscal management, strategic planning, and administration as well as board management, administration, and reporting. She has set strategy and authored strategic and operational plans as well as department and organization-level policies and procedures manuals. She has managed financing needs from simple lines of credit to SEC-regulated, publicly-traded municipal securities.Erica is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She holds a baccalaureate degree in accountancy, a baccalaureate degree in business administration, and a master’s degree in accountancy from the University of Missouri and she is a licensed CPA in four states (two active, two inactive).