New York CPA group elects two new board members from Mohawk Valley region

The group has elected John Lauchert, a CPA who works in Clinton in Oneida County, to serve as the board’s secretary/treasurer.

Lauchert is an outsource chief financial officer consultant with Horizon CFO LLC in Clinton. His one-year term began June 1.

Lauchert currently serves on the NYSSCPA’s bankruptcy and financial reorganization committee and the chief financial officers committee. He previously served as chairman for the NYSCCPA’s members in industry committee in Buffalo and Utica, as well as the president of the Society’s Foundation for Accounting Education’s board of trustees.

He received his bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics and applied business management at Cornell University, and his master of business administration degree from the Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Lauchert joined the Society in 1981 and is a member of the Utica chapter.

The NYSSCPA has elected Brian Reese, a CPA in the Utica firm of Fitzgerald DePietro & Wojnas CPAs, P.C. He’ll serve on the board of directors as a representative of the group’s Utica chapter.

His three-year term began June 1.

A Society member since 2004, Reese previously served as a member of the NextGen Committee and chair of the Utica chapter’s tax panel. He also served as the past Utica chapter president, president-elect, and treasurer.

Reese earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from The College at Brockport, State University of New York. He resides in Whitesboro.

The NYSSCPA (nysscpa.org) founded in 1897. Its members reside and practice in New York state and encompass all areas of public practice, including in government, education, and industry.

It describes itself as the oldest — and the third largest such state society organization — in the United States.

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