Deep Work in a Distracted World

Maureen A. Renzi, APR
Vice President of Communications
PICPA

Maureen A. Renzi is vice president-communications for the PICPA leading a communications team that provides members with technical updates through blogs, podcasts, and the Pennsylvania CPA Journal quarterly professional magazine. She also leads the public relations efforts to position CPAs as thought leaders to consumers and small business owners. She provides leadership development and public speaking training to members.

James J. Caruso
James J. Caruso, CPA, CGMA is chief financial officer of Simplura Health Group in Valley Stream, N.Y., a private equity-backed provider of home care services operating in five states. He is a former partner of RSM US LLP and of Fesnak LLP, which merged into RSM in 2015. At Fesnak, Jim developed and led the Finance & Accounting Outsourcing and Transaction Advisory Services practices, and continued to lead the Philadelphia outsourcing practice for RSM. He was also an adjunct professor at Philadelphia University, teaching financial and managerial accounting in the Strategic Design executive MBA program from 2014 through 2017.

Education
Queens College of the City University of New York, Bachelor of Arts in Accounting