In this episode of the Trusted Professional Podcast, Calvin Harris Jr., CPA, CEO of the New York State Society of CPAs, chats with Orumé Hays,CPA, CGMA, MST, a director-at-large of the NYSSCPA and founder/CEO of Hays CPA LLC.

Orumé Hays Agbeyegbe (She/Her) is a Certified Public Accountant (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 more than a decade of business operations and financial expertise in various business sectors, including architecture, design, entertainment, event productions, food & beverage, healthcare, and hospitality.

Orumé holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from CUNY College of Staten Island, New York (inducted to Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society), and a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology & Anthropology from the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Nigeria. She also earned a Master of Science in Taxation from the D'Amore Mckim School of Business, Northeastern University, Massachusetts.

In this episode of the Trusted Professional Podcast, Calvin Harris Jr., CPA, CEO of the New York State Society of CPAs, chats with Michael Durant, CPA, a member of the NYSSCPA board of directors, and a senior tax accountant with Prager Metis CPAs, LLC, New York.

On this episode of the Trusted Professional Podcast from the New York State Society of CPAs, NYSSCPA CEO Calvin Harris Jr.. chats with Kevin O'Leary, president of the NYSSCPA and managing partner at MMB + CO..

About the Guest

Kevin O’Leary became Managing Partner of MMB + CO’s Albany office in 2019. On June 1, 2024, Kevin was elected President of the NYSSCPA. Previously, he had been President, President-elect, Secretary and Treasurer of the Northeast Chapter. Because of his role with the NYSSCPA, he is also now a council member of the AICPA.

Kevin graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, where he played four years of college football and received his BS in Accounting. During his downtime, he enjoys coaching basketball and flag football at St. Gregory’s School, as well as playing golf with the kids. His wife, Tara, is also a CPA, and they are the proud parents of two awesome boys (and future CPAs—they just don’t know it yet), Mason and Nick.