Jesse M. Herschbein, CPA, CGMA, is the owner of Ascend Accounting Advisory, LLC. He is a New Jersey CPA with more than 25 years of combined public and private accounting experience. Jesse is a member of the AICPA and NJCPA and is currently chairman of the NJCPA's Volunteer Relations Council, a director of the NJCPA Passaic County Chapter and is a past member of their Board of Trustees.

Katherine E. Zech, CPA, is an accounting supervisor at PKF O’Connor Davies, LLP. She is a member of the New Jersey Society of CPAs Young CPAs Council, on the Union County Chapter Board and an NJCPA scholarship recipient mentor.

Nicole DeRosa, CPA, MAcc, is a partner at Wiss and a member of the NJCPA Board of Trustees.