Bill Reeb, CPA, CITP, CGMA, is the AICPA Vice Chair (Chair on May 19) and co-founder and CEO of the Succession Institute, LLC. He has been consulting for three decades to all sizes of businesses, from “mom and pop” operations to Fortune 100 companies, primarily in the areas of organizational structure and processes, governance, automation and revenue generation. He became a CPA in 1986. Prior to then, he worked for IBM in sales back in the late 1970s. As an entrepreneur, Bill has founded seven small businesses, he had two ladies clothing stores, one retail computer software store, a software development firm, a computer consulting firm, a CPA firm and his current management consulting firm — Succession Institute, LLC. As an award-winning public speaker, Bill lectures throughout the U.S. and Canada to thousands of executives and CPAs each year. He currently authors a bi-monthly column called “In the Bill-iverse” which is distributed by over 14 state CPA societies as part of their practice management e-newsletter. Bill published his latest book in 2013, titled Getting Unstuck: The Way of the Black Belt to Success and Happiness.