I am honored to be included on the list of Accounting Today's 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting for the seventh year in a row. I am flattered to be on the list with such high-powered people in the tax and accounting worlds, including:
- Max Baucus (Chair, Senate Finance Committee)
- Dave Camp (Chair, House Ways & Means Committee)
- Stephen Chipman (CEO, Grant Thornton)
- J. Russell George (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration)
- Charles Grassley (Member, Senate Finance Committee)
- Orin Hatch (Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee)
- Karen Hawkins (IRS Office of Professional Responsibility)
- Barry Melancon (President & CEO, AICPA)
- Robert Mortiz (Chair, PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
- Barack Obama (President of the United States)
- Nina Olson (National Taxpayer Advocate, IRS)
- Mitt Romney (Republican Candidate for President of the United States)
- Mary Schapiro (Chair, SEC)
- Leslie Seidman (Chair, FASB)
- Douglas Shulman (Commissioner, IRS)
- James Turley (Chair & CEO, Ernst & Young)
- John Veihmeyer (Chair & CEO, KPMG)



