Steven Kerr

Steve joined the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) team in 2006 and was promoted to vice president of strategy and business development in 2014. In this role he drives organizational leadership activities, manages daily office operations, and develops new initiatives that advance PICPA’s strategic objectives.

In addition to facilitating PICPA’s strategic planning, Steve manages several of the key initiatives and regularly provides updates on current strategic priorities to PICPA’s leadership, volunteers, and staff. He also oversees the organization’s human resources, customer service, and business development functions. These teams have launched a number of tools under Steve’s leadership that enable the PICPA to more efficiently, effectively, and conveniently engage both customers and staff, including an online chat tool in 2014 and a human resource/information system in 2016. Steve is also passionate about the organization’s database work. He was instrumental in the implementation of the PICPA’s engagement scoring initiative, as well as business process analysis, quality assurance testing, and end-user training for past database conversions by the PICPA and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He remains actively involved in related projects, and is a past speaker at the national

Aptify Users Conference and AICPA Peer Review Conference on effective use of databases. Steve graduated with a bachelor’s degree in public policy from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., in 2005. Steve and his wife, Rachel, live outside Philadelphia with their two children.