Conference Speakers - 2018 GAU

David R. Bean - Director of Research and Technical Activities

David R. Bean is the director of research and technical activities for the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.  He assigns and provides oversight to the GASB’s research, technical, and administrative activities.

Prior to joining the GASB in 1990, David worked in public accounting and government. He also has served as Deputy Chairman of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB).  He was the lead author on the 1988 Governmental Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting and was the founder of the GAAFR Review.  He was the last director of the National Council on Governmental Accounting before the formation of the GASB in 1984.

David is a member of the Government Finance Officers Association, the Connecticut and Illinois Government Finance Officers Associations, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Illinois CPA Society, the Association of Government Accountants, the
National Federation of Municipal Analysts, and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York.

Charlene Kamradt, CPA - Senior Manager

As a Senior Manager with Cherry Bekaert, Carlene is a member of the Firm’s Government Contractor Services and Government Services Industry Groups. With more than 15 years in public accounting, she has honed her knowledge in the areas of financial audits and testing of internal controls for government contractors, local governments, and nonprofits. Areas of focus include compliance with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and Government Auditing Standards, including Single Audits performed under the Uniform Guidance. She serves as a quality reviewer of the Firm’s audits of government contractors and local governments. She also provides accounting, consulting, and financial statement review and audit services to local governments and commercial and nonprofit government contractors in a variety of industries.

Carlene assists clients in developing and implementing appropriate internal controls and documenting compliance with federal requirements, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). She also assists clients with system reviews, indirect rate structures, incurred cost submissions, and Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) audits. She is a valued speaker and has developed and presented seminars and training sessions on government contracting.
 

William Rustin (Rusty) Pounds, CFE - Manager

An experienced criminal investigator, auditor and corporate consultant for over 19 years, William is a Manager in Cherry Bekaert’s Fraud & Forensics practice. He specializes in consulting assistance to clients in numerous industries, with an emphasis on fraud investigation, public corruption, embezzlement, fraud prevention, mortgage fraud and financial crime enforcement operations. William is also a member of the Firm’s Fraud and Forensics group, assisting clients with forensic accounting, fraud examination services, fraud risk management, litigation support of financial crimes and defalcations and data analysis.

William’s background includes working on several federal task force cases with the Internal Revenue Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service, and state agencies and prosecutors. Prior to joining Cherry Bekaert, he was a Special Agent within the Financial Crime Investigation Unit of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. In this capacity, William conducted criminal investigations involving embezzlement, false pretense, conspiracy, forgery and extortion, as well as violations of the U.S. criminal code to include bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, the Hobbs Act and money laundering.

A sought-after speaker, William has developed and presented several lectures on identify theft, investigations of white collar crimes, and other financial crime topics.

Jonathan Kraftchick, CPA 
Managing Director, Assurance Services

Jonathan is Cherry Bekaert’s Managing Director of Training and Development for the Assurance & Accounting Services group, where he is responsible for overseeing much of the Firm’s audit training, course development and delivery. He has spent more than 15 years conducting audit engagements for a variety of companies and industries throughout the country, as well as writing and delivering courses both inside and outside of the firm.

Outside of his work at Cherry Bekaert, Jonathan served as an adjunct professor at Elon University in their accounting department. In 2015, Jonathan was awarded the “Taking it to the Max” award by the NCACPA, which honors the legacy of former NCACPA Chair Maximo Mukelabai. He has also received NCACPA’s 5.0 Discussion Leader Award and their Outstanding Seminar Discussion Leader award on several occasions.

In 2017, Jonathan participated and placed second runner-up in CPA.com’s Innovative Practitioner of the Year, which recognizes innovation in process, services or technology implementation in public accounting firms.