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Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of profiles highlighting the diverse interests and careers of VSCPA members. Know a member (including yourself) who would make for an interesting profile? Email VSCPA Communications Manager Chip Knighton . Since 2009, VSCPA member Anne Hagen, CPA, has been chief financial officer (CFO) of the Masonic Home of Virginia. The roots for that role were put down decades ago amid milk, vegetables and cuts of meat. Growing up in Lynchburg, Hagen performed any supporting

As a licensed CPA and attorney, new VSCPA Board of Directors Chair Lisa Germano, CPA, is well versed in the importance of experience and expertise. Now she’s focusing on the importance of volunteering not only as a way to give back to the profession, but also a way to build both of those qualities with the help of others.

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of profiles highlighting the diverse interests and careers of VSCPA members. Know a member (including yourself) who would make for an interesting profile? Email VSCPA Communications Manager Chip Knighton . Few VSCPA members can speak to the respect the CPAcredential draws than Ryan Losi, CPA. He’s only participated in CPA Assembly Day once — hey, that’s today, and you can participate virtually here ! — but his General Assembly

Editor’sNote: This is part of a series of profiles highlighting the diverse interests and careers of VSCPA members. Know a member (including yourself) who would make for an interesting profile? Email VSCPA Communications Manager Chip Knighton . On the surface, narrowing down a career path from “any job” to “fraud examiner” seems like a daunting task. But that’s exactly what John Merchant, CPA, did. Merchant, a principal at Bond Beebe in Bethesda, Md., graduated

It’s been a long, difficult ride for VSCPA member Christina Monfalcone, CPA, in the accounting industry, involving a deceased mentor, an undesirable work situation and one of the most difficult decisions she ever had to make. But she made it through and emerged as an industry leader in her region, and she’s drawing on her own experience to educate her colleagues.

You'd be hard-pressed to find two industries more different than the financial sector and early childhood education. But VSCPA member Laura Tate-Smith, CPA, made a seamless move from one to the other and fulfilled a lifelong dream in the process.

When Laurie Warwick, CPA, hits the ground running at the Virginia Board of Accountancy (VBOA), she’ll be charged with representing the Big Four perspective in Board dealings. Fortunately, she’s got 20 years of expertise to back her up.

There are people out there who are lucky enough to find a job or a professional niche that checks all of their career boxes. Julie Gustavsson, CPA, CITP, is one of them.

As often happens with Virginia Board of Accountancy (VBOA) members, Marc Moyers, CPA, pulled back from the VBOA and his day job at roughly the same time. That timing had him in a reflective state of mind when he recently spoke with the VSCPA.

Gabriele Lingenfelter, CPA, has hopscotched around the country and the globe on the orders of the U.S. Army. Earlier in her career, she took the constant movement as a chance to reinvent herself, finding a home teaching tomorrow’s CPAs.