2025 Virtual Regional Professional Development Training (RPDT)

Jenny Dominguez Related Seminars and Products

Principal Fraud Investigator

CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP.

Jenny Dominguez brings over 24 years of expertise in the accounting profession. Jenny specializes in financial fraud investigations across state and local government and in the higher education, construction, real estate, nonprofit, and healthcare sectors. Her experience includes investigating employee embezzlement, conflicts of interest, vendor/procurement fraud, fraudulent financial statements, and other accounting irregularities.

Jenny has been integral to all phases of the investigative process, conducting interviews and data analysis and identifying and quantifying embezzlement losses, conflicts of interest, and corruption. She has prepared comprehensive loss reports and coordinated with clients’ insurance providers to secure reimbursement. Additionally, she has collaborated with law enforcement agencies to pursue criminal prosecution and has provided testimony in criminal proceedings.

Her forensic accounting and auditing skills have been pivotal in determining the presence of fraud warranting further investigation. Jenny has conducted internal control assessments and fraud risk evaluations and has led numerous forensic accounting and investigation engagements for two prominent national accounting firms.From Red Flags to Real Risks: The State of Fraud in Government Agencies

Colin Buttarazzi, PMP, CPACC Related Seminars and Products

Manager

BerryDunn

Colin Buttarazzi is a manager in BerryDunn’s Government Consulting Group. Colin possesses a strong understanding of internal controls, having conducted numerous internal control reviews and compliance audits for a range of government clients. He has also conducted in-depth payroll reviews and participated in both internal and external audits, including performance and programmatic audits. Colin's expertise extends to project management, ensuring efficient and effective execution of engagements. Throughout his career, Colin has assisted clients by providing valuable insights into improving risk mitigation strategies and internal processes. Colin graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in Economics and Business Management and holds a Project Management Professional certification.

Chris Ekimoff, CPA/CFF, CFE, MAFF, CGMA Related Seminars and Products

Director of Financial Investigations & Dispute Services

RSM

Chris Ekimoff is a Director in the Financial Investigations & Dispute Services (“FIDS”) based out of the Washington DC and New York City offices of RSM. Chris has significant experience providing litigation consulting and forensic accounting services—including as an expert witness on behalf of his clients— performing internal investigations, applying and evaluating financial reporting methods, responding to allegations of accounting and auditing malpractice, asset tracing engagements, and other complex financial and accounting issues. He is a co-host of the inSecurities Podcast from the Practising Law Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University. Chris also heads the FIDS Blockchain and Crypto Solutions Working Group at RSM.

Chris leads engagements regarding SEC financial reporting matters, public company restatements, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and corporate compliance. Additionally, he has overseen the development and implementation of fraud risk management programs, as well as the performance of internal investigations at companies in the financial services, construction, hospitality, manufacturing, and technology industries. Chris has contributed to matters including revenue recognition issues, audit malpractice claims, alleged SEC reporting violations, complex GAAP & GAAS accounting policy issues, whistleblower allegations, and mortgage-backed securities litigation.

Chris Fitzgerald Related Seminars and Products

Data Analytics and Forensic Technology Leader

RSM

Chris has over ten years of business advisory experience focusing on forensic investigations, litigation support, asset tracing and bankruptcy and insolvency consulting. Chris is the Data Analytics Leader for RSM’s Financial Investigations and Dispute Advisory group, focusing on leveraging technology to analyze large, complex data sets to provide meaningful insights in both a proactive and investigative context.

Chris has contributed to and led engagements with public, private, nonprofit and government organizations, performing domestic and multinational investigations, fraud and corruption risk management and controls improvement projects, anti-money laundering investigations, and damages calculations relating to contract disputes. Chris has consulted on a wide-range of litigation and arbitration cases in various jurisdictions and has testified in an expert capacity in federal court.

Prior to joining RSM, Chris was a senior associate at a leading accounting and advisory firm, providing forensic investigations and corporate insolvency consulting. 

Yoko McCarthy, MBA, CFE, CISA, CGFM Related Seminars and Products

Principal

BerryDunn

Yoko is a principal in BerryDunn’s Government Consulting Team. She co-leads the Compliance and Risk Management practice, which provides compliance assurance services. Since joining BerryDunn in 2012, Yoko has helped state and local governments strengthen internal controls to protect their resources from waste, abuse, and fraud, and improve operational efficiency while maintaining compliance.

Prior to joining BerryDunn, Yoko worked for the Office of State Auditor in Massachusetts for over eight years.

She holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Massachusetts Boston, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Information System Auditor, and Certified Government Financial Manager.

Outside of work, Yoko is an active member in her community. She is an incoming president for AGA Boston Chapter. She is a co-organizer of a community with over 600 members that connects Japanese-speaking women in the Boston area, and a co-founder of a community where Japanese-speaking professionals educate and inspire one another to improve racial and gender equality in their professional careers and personal lives. Yoko is also the proud mother of two daughters, Mia and Anna.

CAPT Patrick Sullivan, AGA Boston President Elect Related Seminars and Products

Incoming President

AGA Boston Chapter

CAPT Patrick Sullivan graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Government. After graduation, he reported aboard the USCGC BEAR in Portsmouth, VA and served as Deck Watch Officer, Educational Services Officer and First Lieutenant. Following his underway tour, he reported to the PACAREA/District Eleven Command Center where he earned qualifications as Maritime Homeland Security Watch Stander and Search and Rescue Duty Officer. Concluding his tour in the command center, CAPT Sullivan was selected for graduate school and earned his Master of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.

Following graduate school, Patrick served in a variety of roles at the Surface Forces Logistics Center (SFLC) in Curtis Bay, MD, including Budget Officer and Fiscal Operations and Policy Supervisor.  During his tour, he was the primary command representative for all Chief Financial Officer (CFO) compliance issues and initiatives, ensuring financial stewardship of $290 million worth of surface asset inventory. After SFLC, Patrick joined Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, FL as the Command Center Chief. In this position, he served as Search and Rescue (SAR) Mission Coordinator and led a team of specialists maintaining situational awareness over a diverse area of responsibility encompassing 190 coastline miles and 409 river and intracoastal waterway miles. From Sector Jacksonville, Patrick was assigned to Air Station Clearwater, FL, where he served as unit Comptroller, managing a $315 million personal property program and executing a $24 million operating budget supporting 10 helicopters and four fixed-wing aircraft.

He then reported to Coast Guard Headquarters, where he worked in the Deputy Commandant for Mission Support (DCMS) front office, serving as Executive Assistant and principal advisor to both the Deputy for Personnel Readiness (DPR) and to the Deputy for Materiel Readiness (DMR). Following his special assignment, Patrick served as Executive Officer at Base Cape Cod in Buzzards Bay, MA, where he was responsible for oversight of all Mission Support functions for Cape Cod and for Pay and Personnel functions for all of Coast Guard District One.

After serving a brief stint as the primary liaison between the Coast Guard Academy and Coast Guard Headquarters and managing the school’s Board of Trustees, he reported back to Coast Guard Headquarters and took command of Base National Capital Region.

During his career, CAPT Sullivan earned both the Certified Government Financial Manager certification and Certified Defense Financial Manager certification. He has been a proud member of AGA since 2010 and serves on the Boston Chapter President-Elect. Patrick was married in 2009 to his wife and former Canadian pop sensation, Amanda, of Mississauga, Ontario and they have ten-year-old twins, Morgan and Shaun and a handsome Boxer, Sonny.

Melinda J. DeCorte, CPA, CFE, CGFM, PMP Related Seminars and Products

Principal at Sikich

Melinda DeCorte has 25 years of accounting, auditing and government financial management experience. She directs, manages, and serves in a quality assurance capacity for financial statement audit engagements conducted in accordance with Government Auditing Standards (GAS). She also has extensive advisory experience for multiple governmental agencies, primarily focusing on internal controls and risk assessments, financial statement preparation, financial system implementation, and evaluating agencies for audit readiness and compliance with internal control standards and generally accepted accounting principles.

In addition to client engagements, Melinda’s corporate leadership roles include serving on the Sikich Board of Managers, and as the leader for government audit services.

Ms. DeCorte is an active member of AGA and will assume the role of AGA National President-Elect in July 2025. She previously served on the National Governing Board as a Director for Chapters (Area 3) from July 2019 through June 2022 and as Chair of the AGA’s Professional Ethics Board from July 2019 through June 2022.

Melinda was recently named on Forbes inaugural list of America’s Top 200 CPAs. Prior to her career in public accounting, Melinda served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army, Finance Corps.

Scott Reeser, CPA Related Seminars and Products

GASB

Scott Reeser is a senior project manager with the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). He currently is working on a project related to infrastructure assets. Previously, he has worked on projects related to the financial reporting model, postemployment benefits, public-private partnerships, fiduciary activities, and transactions reported as deferred outflows of resources and deferred inflows of resources.

Before joining the staff of the GASB in 2010, Mr. Reeser spent ten years working for the Office of the Comptroller in the State of Illinois. During that time, Mr. Reeser was responsible for the coordination and preparation of the state’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report and the development of statewide accounting policies. He also previously worked over five years with a public accounting firm.

Remi Omisore Related Seminars and Products

Principal

CliftonLarsonAllen

Remi Omisore is a Principal in CliftonLarsonAllen’s Public Sector Group with over seventeen years of experience in planning, leading, and executing financial statement and compliance audits by applying the requirements of U.S. GAAP reporting and internal control compliance.