Not-For-Profit & Governmental Accounting Two-Day Conference

Shane Ideus

Shane Ideus joined UNICO Group in 2009 as a Risk Consultant for our Property and Casualty division.  Shane has used his passion and determination to provide solutions for his clients as well as paving his way as a leader by mentoring our next sales generation. In 2016, Shane was promoted to Executive Vice President and currently leads the sales and marketing divisions for UNICO. In addition, Shane serves on the company’s Executive Team, Board of Directors and is a Shareholder.

Shane’s primary expertise is in managing risk for communication companies, social services, and property-owners. Helping his clients manage their risk to protect their assets is his number one priority.  He is constantly identifying coverage gaps, emerging risks and finding the best carrier partner for placement for his clients. Shane offers his clients a full perspective of their risk management program and aims to educate them along the way.

Dave Cotton

Dave Cotton is founder and Chairman Emeritus of Cotton & Company, Certified Public Accountants, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.  Cotton & Company was founded in 1981 and has a practice concentration in assisting Federal and State agencies, inspectors general, and government grantees and contractors with a variety of government program-related assurance and advisory services.  Cotton & Company has performed grant and contract, indirect cost rate, financial statement, financial related, and performance audits for more than two dozen Federal inspectors general as well as numerous other Federal and State organizations, programs, activities, and functions.  In April 2022, Cotton & Company became a subsidiary of Sikich LLP.  

Dave has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Management Science and Labor Relations.

In May 2022, Governor Glenn Youngkin appointed Dave to the Virginia Board of Accountancy.

Mark Avery

Mark Avery, CPA, is the Subdivision Audit Review Coordinator with the Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts.  He is responsible for the review of approximately 2800 political subdivision audit reports and audit waiver requests, which are required to be filed with the Auditor's office.

Jeffrey Schreier

Jeff Schreier is a Senior Auditor-in-Charge and CPA with the Nebraska Auditor of Public Accounts. Jeff has been employed with the office since 2013, and is responsible for overseeing the review of approximately 2,500 political subdivision budgets that are completed and filed with the Auditor of Public Accounts each year.  Jeff is also responsible for monitoring legislative activities, and implementing any changes approved by the Legislature that impact the budget process used by political subdivisions in Nebraska.

Scott Reeser

Scott Reeser is a senior project manager with the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) in Norwalk, Connecticut. He is currently working on a GASB project related to the reexamination of the financial reporting model and infrastructure assets. Previously, he has worked on several projects, including those leading to statements on accounting and financial reporting for 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. His previous experience also includes over five years with a public accounting firm performing financial and compliance audits of not-for-profit entities and governmental agencies. 

Mr. Reeser is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Illinois CPA Society.

Steph Ledbetter

Steph is the Vice President of Consulting at Zelle Human Resource Solutions. She spends the majority of her time working with clients on developing initiatives to improve culture and engagement. Steph has helped clients implement new human resources processes to improve innovation, engagement, profit and loss and process improvement. Steph is a graduate of Gonzaga University where she earned her master's degree in organizational leadership.

Danielle Cheek

Danielle Supkis Cheek is the Vice President of Strategy and Industry Relations at MindBridge. 

Danielle earned her Bachelors from Rice University in Houston, TX, and her Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. 

She is a Certified Public Account (CPA) in the State of Texas, a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA). 

Danielle is the immediate past Chair of the PCPS Technical Issues Committee with the American Institute for CPAs and is the US Representative to the IFAC Small and Medium Practitioners Committee. She is on the IT Services Task Force to the Professional Ethics Executive Committee and the Technology Experts Group to the International Ethics Standards Board and the Auditing Standards Board. She is an at-large member of AICPA Council. 

She is an 8-time (2014-2021) 40 under 40 by the CPA Practice Advisor, and was the Houston CPA’s Society’s Distinguished Member to the Profession for 2019. She was also the first woman to receive the AICPA’s Outstanding Young CPA of the Year Award in Honor of Maximo in 2016 and is a 5-time Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor and AICPA. Danielle was also named as a 2019 Houston Business Journal Women Who Means Business.

She is also part-time faculty at Rice University’s Jones School of Business teaching accounting for entrepreneurs to undergrads and data analytics to the Masters of Accountancy (MAcc) students. 

* Licensed only in Texas

Connie Reimers-Hild

Connie Reimers-Hild, PhD, CPC is the Founder and Chief Futurist of Wild Innovation, a strategic foresight and leadership development firm that has helped more than 150 companies and 30,000 individuals determine their desired futures.

Before launching Wild Innovation full-time, Dr. Connie served as the Executive Director and Chief Futurist for the Rural Futures Institute (RFI) at the University of Nebraska.   While at RFI, she hosted the Rural Futures podcast, started an inclusive leadership fellows program, and established key partnerships with small businesses as well as tech firms like Microsoft and Apple. 

Dr. Connie is a Certified Professional Coach, Strengths Coach, and Futurist with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Human Sciences and Leadership Studies, a Master of Science degree in Entomology, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources. In addition to helping people live and lead their desired futures, Dr. Connie loves firewalking, sledding, swimming with sharks, and experiencing new adventures with her family.