AGENDA      SPEAKERS     

 

PRECONFERENCE

Brian Sullivan, CPA
Vice President, JSI

Brian Sullivan, Vice President of JSI in Greenbelt, Md., is primarily responsible for overseeing the completion, review, and submission of jurisdictional cost studies along with related filings and studies, including Universal Service Fund and FCC Access Tariff filings...

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SESSION: Preconference Workshop I: Telco Accounting Fundamentals and Preconference Workshop II: Federal Policy Impact on Telco Accounting, Sunday, 1:00 p.m.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Anirban Basu
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sage Policy Group

    

Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, Maryland. Basu is among the most recognizable economists, in part because of his consulting work on behalf of numerous clients, including prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers, law firms and business associations....

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SESSION: To All The Economists I've Loved Before, Tuesday, 3:50 p.m.

 

Chad Holzer
CPA, Senior Manager, Moss Adams

    

Chad Holzer has specialized in telecommunications since 2011. He focuses on separations and regulatory work, managing consulting and cost-study engagements. His clients are primarily rural incumbent local exchange carriers, rural cooperatives and corporations, rate-of-return rural ILECs and midsize price-cap companies. ...

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SESSION: Winning USF Reform and Operational Strategies, Monday, 10:20 a.m.–11:10 a.m.

 

Tom Hood
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Maryland Association of CPAs and The Business Learning Institute

    

Tom Hood has been executive director and chief executive officer of the Maryland Association of CPAs (MACPA) since January 1997. Armed with a passion for the profession and the drive to move it forward, he manages a staff of more than 30, works closely with the executive committee and board of directors and oversees the work of numerous committees to promote and protect the CPA brand in Maryland...

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SESSION: The Future-Ready Finance Leader: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There!, Monday, 8:20 a.m.

 


Other Speakers

   

Kianna Braxton-Johnson
Senior Manager of Audit and Assurance
USAC

 

Nikki-Blair Carpenter
Senior Director of Audit and Assurance
USAC

 

Camille Christiansen, CPA, MBA
Business Assurance Partner
Moss Adams

 

   

Christine Duncan
Director – Separations
JSI

 

Mark Ellmer, CPA
Staff Director
JSI

 

Bob Gnapp
Director – Member Training & Network Analysis
NECA

 

   

Jason C. Hamilton, CPA
Director
BKD

 

Jessica Kaczor, CPA
Senior Accountant
Bauknight Pietras & Stormer

 

Jeff Lenning, CPA, CITP
President
Excel University

 

   

Dodie North
Consultant Analyst
GVNW

 

Leah Perez, CPA
Business Assurance Manager
Moss Adams

 

Jeffrey E. Rakes, CIMA, CIS
Senior Institutional Consultant
Wells Fargo Advisors

 

   

Robin Reed
Senior Vice President
Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative

 

Sally Wlasuk
Member Relations Manager
NTCA

 

Sarah Yocum, CPA
Business Assurance Senior Manager
Moss Adams