Role: Senior Project Advisor, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Country: USA
Nominated by: USA
Contact details:
E: jdmechanick@fasb.org
In his role at FASB, Jeff provides organization-wide technical and strategic advice on standard-setting activities affecting the not-for-profit sector, guides and facilitates stakeholder outreach with the sector, chairs the FASB’s Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee, and participates in some of the FASB’s broader educational activities. Jeff previously spent 20 years working in and with the not-for-profit sector, as the CFO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and before that, as a Senior Manager with KPMG, LLP, in the firm’s New York office. From 1992 to 1994, he served as the National Technical Senior Manager for the firm’s Higher Education, Research, and Other Not-for-Profit Organizations (HERON) practice. He is also a past member of the AICPA’s NFP Expert Panel. Jeff is also an adjunct instructor in Columbia University’s MS program in Nonprofit Management.
