Providing Strategic Guidance to the Accounting Area
Accounting Advisory Council members represent a variety of accounting firms, corporations, and government entities.
To increase the community's participation in the development of future accounting professionals, the accounting area in the Costello College of Business at George Mason University maintains a strong tradition of building partnerships through the Accounting Advisory Council. The council's mission is to advise and assist the accounting area so graduates are prepared to be successful contributors to an increasingly global accounting profession, and to ensure the College's undergraduate and masters programs to the needs of the accounting profession.
Council Chair
Past Council Chair
Council Members
Partner, Baker Tilly
Shabinaaz Mahdi is a partner at Baker Tilly US, LLP. She has over 11 years of experience providing tax and advisory services primarily to law firms in the professional services industry as well as REITs and other commercial businesses.CPA, Audit Partner, CohnReznick
Renee Mathews is a partner in CohnReznick’s Bethesda, Maryland office with more than 20 years of experience in accounting, tax, and financial management.Principal, Technology Consulting at RSM US LLP
Christopher McCarthy is Principal, Technology Consulting at RSM US LLP.Assistant Director, Government Accountability Office
Kimberly A. McGatlin is an assistant director at the Government Accountability Office.President, Miller Consulting Group, LLC
Matt Miller is the president of Miller Consulting Group, LLC.Partner, CohnReznick
Daniel O’Shea is a partner in CohnReznick, a national accounting firm, where he co-leads the Not-For-Profit and Education Industry Practice for the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.Partner, Kearney & Company, PC
Past Chair, Accounting Advisory CouncilErin Ogburn is currently the Chief People Officer (Partner) at Kearney & Company, an accounting and consulting Firm and a “Best Place to Work” (Washington Business Journal) in Alexandria, VA.Director - Tax Services Group, Aprio LLP
As a Director in Aprio's Tax Services Group, Grant Patterson specializes in comprehensive tax services for government contractors and real estate companies.Partner, Aprio LLP
David Semendinger, CPA, is the practice lead for both Aprio LLP’s Quality Control Group and Assurance Services Group.
College of Business Members
Firms, Corporations, and Government Entities Represented on the Accounting Advisory Council:
- Andersen
- Aprio LLP
- Baker Tilly
- BDO USA LLP
- Burdette, Smith and Bish LLC
- Citron Cooperman & Company LLP
- CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP
- CohnReznick
- Deloitte Tax LLP
- Forvis
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Grant Thornton, LLP
- Greater Washington Society of CPAs
- Government Accountability Office
- Grossberg Company LLP
- Kearney & Company, PC
- KPMG, LLP
- Miller Consulting Group, LLC
- PBMares
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
- RSM US LLP
- Rubino & Company
- Thompson, Greenspon & Co., PC