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OUR ENGAGEMENT TEAM

We place an extremely heavy emphasis on focused interactions between your management and our engagement team. The individuals assigned to your engagement will be qualified to provide you with an assessment of your overall management needs. In addition, our partners are available to assist you in presenting information to other interested third parties. The client service team will call upon expertise elsewhere, within the firm or its affiliated network of professionals, to meet the various needs of your Organization.

PARTNERS BIOS

Zache Desire, CPA, SPHR - Managing Partner

Zache is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York and a Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources. He earned a Bachelor Degree in Accounting from Baruch College and has over twenty-years of experience in the public and private sector. Zache’s past experiences include being a Partner in a CPA firm, served as the Chief Financial Officer of several nonprofits, and worked as an auditor for Price Waterhouse Coopers ("Big Six"). In addition, Zache:

• Provided Partner level consulting, audit, and tax services to many prestigious Corporations in the nonprofit, real estate, and financial service industries.

• Served as the outsourced Chief Financial Officer for several organizations.

• Co-authored a book called - "Common Cents" – a model fiscal policies and procedures manual.

• Served as an instructor at various trainings on Accounting, Human Resources, and organizational related issues.

• Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

• Member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

• Member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants elected to serve on the Accounting for Nonprofit Organization Committee.

Daniel Desire, CPA - Partner

Dan is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York with over twenty-five years of experience. Dan earned a Bachelor Degree in Accounting from Baruch College. Over the past twenty-five years, he has serviced the nonprofit sector including State agencies, public authorities, municipal entities, higher education, health care, religious, and other types of organizations. In addition, Dan:

• Provided Partner level audit, consulting, and tax services to the nonprofit, manufacturing, construction, and other industries.

• Has extensive experience in limited partnerships relating to nonprofit housing special purpose entities.

• Well versed in helping clients meet reporting requirements related to Title IV student financial assistance programs for proprietary schools in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Minnesota.

• Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

• Member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Other Service Professionals:

As a supplement to our workforce, we have affiliations with our network of professionals that we call upon to utilize staffing and other resources to serve our valuable clients. All engagements are staffed with one of our Partners who will be responsible for the overall client service team.

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