William “Bill” Emmer serves as vice president, operations. In this role, Emmer oversees multiple operations at NASBA including services related to the Uniform CPA Examination (CPA Exam), CPA licensing, the National Candidate Database, the National Registry of CPE Sponsors and other products and services, as well as Information Technology (IT).
Emmer has more than 30 years of business and leadership experience. Most recently, he acted as the enterprise program manager of the CPA Exam where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations across the NASBA, AICPA and Prometric (NAP) enterprise. In this role, Emmer was instrumental in launching continuous testing of the CPA Exam and launching the CPA Exam in numerous international countries.
Emmer’s career began with Price Waterhouse in the audit practice, and later transferred to the newly formed systems audit group. He then worked in cross-functional roles at Becton Dickinson, The Seagram Company Ltd., The Seagram Spirits and Wine Group, and Universal Music Group. Throughout the years, Emmer has garnered experience in organizational and operational transformation, reengineering, enterprise change management and more.
A New Jersey native, Emmer earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Montclair State University and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. He has been involved in several community leadership roles, including over nine years of membership and service with the Bergen Highlands Ramsey Chapter of Rotary International and 10 years of leadership with the Board of Public Works in Ramsey, NJ.