Andrea Hearn is Technical Product Manager at Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting North America. Andrea works with customers and software teams to provide new audit products, new features and industry titles for CCH® ProSystem fx® Knowledge Coach and CCH® Axcess® Knowledge Coach. Andrea also works closely with the Wolters Kluwer Research and Learning team to ensure titles have optimal workflow for Knowledge Coach Customers.
 
Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer in 2006, Andrea worked as a business planning manager in the financial services industry and has a Masters Degree in Arts from York University.

Carl Mayes is the Senior Technical Manager – Special Projects on the Public Practice and Global Alliances team at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He is responsible for managing practice quality initiatives for the AICPA including regulator quality studies, practice monitoring, and various technical and regulatory-focused projects. He is the project manager for the AICPA’s Enhancing Audit Quality initiative and manages the execution of the AICPA’s 6-Point Plan to Improve Audits.

Before joining the Public Practice and Global Alliances team, Mayes helped perform market research, develop the business plan and identify the membership model for the AICPA Not-for-Profit Section.

Rodney was introduced to the accounting profession at Grant Thornton, and has nearly 40 years of experience in public accounting as a partner at CW Associates and as a sole practitioner and partner at other local accounting firms. He obtained a Master’s of Business Administration degree from Chaminade University after graduating from the University of Hawaii with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and is a certified public accountant, licensed in the State of Hawaii. He is a past president of the Hawaii Society of CPAs and was also Hawaii’s first member of the Board of Directors of the AICPA. He continues to serve on select committees of the AICPA. Rodney is also a past President of Oahu Country Club, former treasurer of the Honolulu Council of The Navy League, and is a current member of the Board of Trustees of Chaminade University.