Anoop Natwar Mehta, who chaired the Maryland Association of CPAs from 2012-2013, has been nominated to chair the American Institute of CPAs for 2022-2023.
Mehta is president of Science Systems and Applications, a government contractor in Lanham, Maryland. He has more than 40 years of government contracting experience, including work with both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He’s also a former board member and past president of the Maryland Space Business Roundtable.
Mehta will initially be AICPA vice chair under Bill Pirolli, a partner with DiSanto, Priest & Co. in Warwick, Rhode Island, whose term as AICPA chair runs from 2021-22. Mehta will then take the chair of the AICPA in May 2022.
As an Indian-American who immigrated to the U.S. in 1972 with his parents, he would be following in the path of a more diverse profession blazed by former AICPA chair Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, another previous MACPA chair who was the first Black AICPA chair, the youngest AICPA chair, and only the fifth woman to serve in that role. Ellison-Taylor, who is now an Oracle executive director, chaired the AICPA from 2016-17 and the global Association of Certified Professional Accountants from 2017-18.
“I am proud of the efforts made by our profession in advancing a more diverse profession, and I also want to challenge everyone to get involved and volunteer their time to support diversity, equity, and inclusion,” Mehta said in a statement. “The AICPA and the MACPA can’t do this alone. I am indebted to [MACPA CEO] Tom Hood, [MACPA chief operating officer)] Jackie Brown, and the entire MACPA leadership team for providing me with the opportunity to serve the profession and Maryland, and I am thankful to Kimberly Ellison-Taylor for her friendship, and for paving the way for me — and hopefully others — to serve in more diverse leadership roles in our profession going forward.”
In addition to his time on MACPA’s board of directors, Mehta actively volunteers with MACPA and is a member of the AICPA’s governing Council.
