Congratulations to Alexandra Tune, CPA, Managing Director, Audit & Assurance, Deloitte, Denver, who has been nominated to serve as COCPA Vice Chair/Chair-Elect beginning May 1, 2024.

Alexandra’s original major at the University of Denver was music. Fortunately for the accounting profession, she enjoyed an intro to accounting class so much that she changed her major. An internship with Deloitte set the stage, and aside from two years in the firm’s New York office, she has spent all of her career in the Mile High City. Alexandra currently leads the Denver office Audit & Advisory Technology and Emerging Growth Practices, specializing in the technology, healthcare, and health technology industries.

Passionate about education, Alexandra chairs the DU School of Accountancy Advisory Board and serves on the Denver Scholarship Foundation’s Audit and Finance Committee. She has also served on the boards of Open World Learning, College Summit Colorado, and the Alliance of Professional Women.

Within the COCPA, Alexandra is a past president of the Educational Foundation Board of Trustees. This 2022 Everyday Heroine has also served on the Women to Watch selection committee.

Also on May 1, Tobias “Toby” Clary, CPA, Soukup, Bush & Associates, P.C., Fort Collins, will assume the COCPA Chair role. Jim Gilbert, CPA, CITP, CGMA, Jim Gilbert CPA, LLC, Highlands Ranch, is nominated to serve as Treasurer. Director-at-Large nominees are Kevin Gibson, CPA, Glenwood Springs; Lisa Kutcher, CPA, Ph.D., Colorado State University, Fort Collins; and Patrick “Pat” A. Lytle, CPA, CGMA, SM Energy Company, Denver.

In addition to Clary, continuing their service as of May 1 are Immediate Past Chair Diego J. Baca, CPA, EY LLP, Denver; Secretary Alicia Gelinas, CPA, COCPA, Englewood; Community Member Amy King, Chief Human Resources Officer, Denver Health; Directors at Large Erin N. Breit, CPA, BDO USA, LLP, Denver, and Greg C. Pfahl, CPA, Moss Adams, Denver; and ex-officio Emerging Professionals Initiative Committee (EPIC) representative Tiffany Davis, CPA, Discovery Accounting LLC, Denver.

Nominees to serve a three-year term on the Educational Foundation Board of Trustees are Todd Mihelich, CPA, CGMA, McPherson, Goodrich, Paolucci & Mihelich, PC, Pueblo; Blaise Wabo, CPA, CISA, CITP, A-LIGN, Denver; and Karla Willschau, CPA, Wall, Smith, Bateman Inc., Alamosa.

Continuing their service on the Educational Foundation Board of Trustees are Judy Thomas, CPA, MBA, Regis University (Retired), Denver; Stephanie Daniels, CPA, MAcc, RubinBrown, LLP, Denver; Jeffrey Damm, CPA, SM Energy Company, Denver; Matthew Ogaz, CPA, MAcc, CoBank, ACB, Greenwood Village; Alexandria Romero, CPA, MPAcc, City of Pueblo; Laurie Corradino, CPA, Ph.D., Colorado State University – Pueblo; and ex-officio Alicia Gelinas, CPA, COCPA, Englewood.

The above nominations will be confirmed on March 15, 2024, in accordance with COCPA bylaws. Read more about these nominees in the Winter 2024 NewsAccount.