Orumé Hays, CPA, CGMA. Founder, HAYS CPA LLC, is a CPA in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is also a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). Her extensive finance and accounting experience includes working with small, medium, local, national, and international businesses. She has over a decade of business operations and financial expertise in various business sectors, including architecture, design, entertainment, event productions, food & beverage, healthcare, and hospitality. Orumé is a active member of the AICPA and the NYSSCPA. She is a member of the Financial Accounting Standards, Small Firms Practice Management (past-chair), Personal Financial Planning, and Not-for-Profit Organizations NYSSCPA Committees. She is an NYSSCPA Director-at-Large, and the immediate past president of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter. Hays is also an executive committee member of AICPA’s - Private Companies Practice Section (PCPS). She is a past two-term Treasurer of the University of Benin Alumni Association North America. She is a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor and also an adjunct lecturer at the Lucille and Jay Chazanoff School of Business, College of Staten Island (CSI) of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Erin joined the AICPA & CIMA's Firm Services Team in July 2021 with 15+ years of experience in both public and private accounting. She began her career as an auditor with EY and has Big 4, regional, and small firm experience. She has served as the Controller at both a regional advertising agency and K-12 private school and most recently was a Tax Manager with RSM prior to joining the Association. Erin currently manages G400, PCPS networking groups, pipeline initiatives, the business model transformation project, benchmarking surveys, and relationships with state societies and firm associations. Erin graduated from Meredith College and North Carolina State University’s Master of Accountancy program. She works out of the Durham, NC office and calls Eastern NC home.