Cybersecurity / New Revenue Recognition Standards for Nonprofits (E1811909)

Catherine Bendall, CPA, PSA, CGMA, partner at WithumSmith+Brown, New Brunswick, has more than 25 years of professional accounting experience. She is a certified public accountant in the states of New Jersey and New York and a licensed public school accountant. Cathy is a member of the firm’s Not-for-Profit & Education Services Group, specializing in highly complex not-for-profit and governmental audits of many types. Performing a number of financial and compliance audits under OMB regulations, Cathy works with various agencies funded by federal, state and local sources. She is also familiar with the operations, accounting and reporting of not-for-profit organizations as well as the fiscal policies and procedures surrounding those types of transactions. Cathy earned her B.S. in business economics from Cook College, Rutgers University. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants. In her community, Cathy serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Anderson House and was active with the Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey Council for 12 years.

Joe Riccie is currently the Market Leader for Withum’s Cyber & Information Security Services plus their Cloud Solutions and Management Consulting practice. He has over 30 years of financial, human capital, operational and technical management experience collectively. He specializes in managing programs, leading change enablement and enterprise transformation programs, and he has a recognized ability to leverage people, process, technology and information to drive performance and deliver key business objectives with tangible results.