Dustin Welcomes New Leadership Team

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NASBA President and CEO Daniel Dustin has selected Kent Absec, Brenner Allen, William Emmer, John Johnson and Sedrik Newbern to join the leadership team at NASBA, effective August 1, 2024. These changes to leadership follow the recent retirement of former NASBA President and CEO Ken Bishop.

Kent Absec is NASBA’s newly appointed vice president, state board relations. In this role, Absec will serve as an advocate for State Boards of Accountancy and explore opportunities to provide support and services to NASBA’s member boards.

Brenner (Brie) Allen, returns to NASBA as chief legal officer. In this role, Allen will oversee all legal matters on behalf of the Association.

William (Bill) Emmer, serves as NASBA’s vice president, operations, and oversees multiple operations including services related to the CPA Examination, CPA licensing, the National Candidate Database, the National CPE Registry, other NASBA products and services, as well as Information Technology (IT).

John Johnson was promoted to vice president, legislative and governmental affairs. In this capacity, Johnson will work to evolve NASBA’s legislative efforts by connecting its member boards to NASBA and with each other, while finding new ways to draw a line between people’s everyday lives and regulatory work.

Sedrik Newbern serves as president of the NASBA Center for the Public Trust (CPT) and as chief ethics officer of NASBA. As CPT President, Newbern will manage the non-profit ethics and leadership organization’s day-to-day operations and growing number of CPT programs. As Chief Ethics Officer, Newbern will oversee ethics compliance for the organization and will represent NASBA in ethics related activities within the accounting profession.