Accounting & Auditing Update | Risk Management (E2504079)

John oversees the industry specific expertise and risk management for McGowanPRO’s accounting and financial clients. Mr. Raspante is the former Director of Compliance and Risk Management as well as the Director of Education for Graf Repetti & Co. LLP, Certified Public Accountants & Business Advisors. Prior to joining Graf Repetti, Mr. Raspante worked nine years for CAMICO Mutual Insurance Company, a provider of accountants’ professional liability insurance. Mr. Raspante’s primary responsibility at CAMICO was providing loss prevention services to the organization’s largest insured’s. Mr. Raspante is a frequent speaker within the accounting profession on issues relating to risk management and professional ethics. He presents regularly at different conferences for accounting firm associations and CPA State Societies. He is a published author and contributor for accounting firm periodicals such as Journal of Accountancy and Accounting Today.

Bryan Saftlas, a Principal at WilkinGuttenplan, has over 20 years of experience. He specializes in audit and advisory services for a variety of industries such as consumer products, technology, life sciences, non-profit, employee benefit plans, private equity funds, hedge funds, and broker-dealers. He provides these services to both private companies and SEC filers. He has significant experience providing guidance to clients on issues related to SEC rules and regulations, U.S. GAAP, and IFRS. Bryan also focuses on business valuations, mergers and acquisitions, reverse mergers, revenue recognition, equity-based compensation, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and debt offerings.Bryan has served as an adjunct professor in the accounting department of Rutgers University’s School of Business. He has also been a featured speaker on technical accounting topics on a national level for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, as well as for the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants. In 2014, NJBIZ included Bryan on its “Forty Under 40” list for his outstanding contributions to the New Jersey business community, the accounting industry, and community service.Prior to joining the firm, Bryan was a partner with a regional CPA firm.

June is a principal at WilkinGuttenplan and is the president of the NJCPA for the 2024/25 term. She has been a member of the NJCPA since 1995 and has served in a variety of capacities, including the Peer Review Executive Committee, Strategic Planning Committee and Volunteer Relations Committee, and was chair of the NJ-CPA-PAC Board of Trustees, chair of the Committee Operations Committee and vice leader of the Business Valuation, Forensic & Litigation Services Interest Group. She is also an active participant in the Accounting & Auditing Standards and Nonprofit interest groups. Before WilkinGuttenplan, June was the managing member of zbt Certified Public Accounting & Consulting, LLC. She is a former treasurer of Garwood Municipal Library; a recipient of NJCPA’s Volunteer Award in 2018 and its Women to Watch Award in 2019; one of New Jersey Monthly’s Leading Women in 2015 and one of NJBIZ Accounting Power 50 from 2020 to 2022.