Chapter Sponsors

CLA exists to create opportunities — for our clients, our people, and our communities. We do it by living the CLA Promise: We promise to know you and help you. We are dedicated to building an inclusive culture that thrives on different beliefs and perspectives. By welcoming and respecting our clients and each other, we can all experience success. CLA delivers integrated wealth advisory, outsourcing, audit, tax, and consulting services to help clients succeed professionally and personally. Grounded in public accounting, our broad professional services allow us to serve clients more completely and offer our people diverse career opportunities. For more information visit https://www.claconnect.com/.

Guidehouse provides management, technology, and risk consulting to clients around the world through more than 1,600 professionals in over 20 locations.  At our core, we focus on building trust in society, solving important problems, and having a seat at the table for our clients’ most pressing matters. Formerly part of PwC, Guidehouse provides the exceptional quality our clients demand with the agility and innovation to go beyond the expected. We invite you to learn more at guidehouse.com.

Kearney & Company is the premier CPA firm focused exclusively on the Federal Government, providing services across the financial management spectrum. Kearney has helped the Federal Government improve its financial operations’ overall effectiveness; increase its level of accountability and compliance with laws, regulations, and guidance; and protect its funds from fraud, waste, and abuse. Visit us at www.kearneyco.com.

Cotton & Company LLP is a certified public accounting partnership licensed and in good standing with the Commonwealth of Virginia and many other states and is qualified to practice in all other jurisdictions. Our practice specialty is the business of government. Since our founding, Cotton & Company has focused its practice on providing services predominantly for governmental agencies and programs. Many clients are repeat clients, which is evidence of our record of outstanding and timely performance and our sustained ability to exceed client expectations.

Cotton & Company was founded in 1981, with one partner and a handful of auditors, and has continued to expand its client base and range of services. Once providing limited financial audit services to our federal clients, we have grown to a firm of 11 partners and more than 170 professionals providing a full range of audit, accounting, information assurance, and management consulting services. For more information visit http://www.cottoncpa.com/.

From strategy to execution, the Government & Public Sector (GPS) practice of Ernst & Young LLP provides a full range of consulting and audit services to help our federal, state and local clients implement new ideas to achieve their mission outcomes. We have experience in delivering real change and measurable results through our diverse, high-performing teams, quality work at the | highest professional standards, operational know-how from across our global organization, and creative and bold ideas tailored to each client’s unique mission. We help support our GPS clients in protecting our nation and serving our people; increasing public safety; improving health care for our military, our veterans and our citizens; delivering essential public services; and helping those in need. In doing so, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients, for our government and for our communities.

Grant Thornton Public Sector helps executives and managers at all levels of government maximize their performance and efficiency in the face of ever tightening budgets and increased demand for services. We give clients creative, cost-effective solutions that enhance their acquisition, financial, human capital, information technology, data analytics, and performance management. Our commitment to public sector success is burnished by a widely recognized body of thought leadership analyzing and recommending solutions to government’s greatest challenges.

Based in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, with offices in Alexandria, VA; Austin and San Antonio, TX; Tallahassee, FL, and Los Angeles and Sacramento, CA; Grant Thornton Public Sector serves federal, state, local, and international governments. For more information, visit grantthornton.com/publicsector.