IAR25: External Reporting Requirements in Higher Education Part 1

Tom Ewing has over 30 years of higher education accounting and reporting experience at The Ohio State University. He is a CPA and earned his MBA at The Ohio State University in 2012. Ewing is a former member and chair of NACUBO's accounting principles council and received the Daniel D. Robinson award in 2020. He also served on the GASB disclosure framework task force. Ewing has been married for 37 years to his wife, Colleen. They have two grown daughters and a five-year-old granddaughter.

Kelli Perry joined the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the association vice president for finance and controller in September 2010. She serves as a key member of the senior finance team and is responsible for providing overall leadership for accounting services, financial reporting, disbursements, e-business (including travel management), systems, enterprise risk management, and operations. She has served in leadership roles in finance, administration, and student financial services. She brings a wide array of experience to her position, as she has had broader responsibility beyond finance, serving as the architect of a student financial services office, worked closely with information technology to implement a range of technology-based process improvements, supervised a budget office, human resources, and business services. She has also served in an acting vice president’s role, which has allowed her to interact with college leadership and serve on a president’s cabinet. Before focusing her efforts in higher education, she worked as an auditor for KPMG. Perry co-led the reengineering of Rensselaer’s procurement process utilizing e-commerce to improve customer service and achieve cost savings. She was also the lead on the travel management implementation that has significantly increased process efficiency and mitigated risk at Rensselaer. She is currently the chair of the enterprise risk management and student employment initiatives at Rensselaer and works closely with the outsourced internal audit function facilitating the relationship with campus.