Lisa is the Rockville Office Managing Partner and she has in excess of 30 years of public accounting experience. She is well versed in accounting firm management with an emphasis on strategic and financial management and marketing and business development. Before joining the firm, Lisa served as the Managing Officer and Chairman of the Board for nine years, and most recently Partner in Charge of Business and Corporate Development, for a nationally ranked top 50 regional accounting firm. Prior to assuming leadership at this top 50 firm she spent twenty years working with Federal government contractors providing audit, tax and consulting services for emerging and mid-market companies.
Lisa is a frequent speaker on matters related to accounting firm management and leadership development. In addition, she is an active participant in many industry and business organizations and community groups. Her efforts have been recognized by several media and industry outlets and she was named one of the Washington Business Journal's "25 Women Who Mean Business". She remains active in the profession as a board member of the AICPA Board of Examiners and the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants. In the local business community she is Chair-Elect of Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, serves on the Board of Rockville Economic Development Inc., Chairs the Advisory Board of the Maryland Women’s Business Center and is a member of the University of Maryland Smith Business School Advisory Board, her alma mater. Her philanthropic efforts include serving as a board member for Junior Achievement of the Capital Region, board member of MCCC Fo undation, as a finance committee member for Jewish Coalition against Domestic Abuse and as chair of the Endowment Committee for the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.
In addition to her regional leadership role she has been an instrumental team leader in the Dixon Hughes Goodman strategic planning process including the rollout with emphasis on the knowledge share initiative.