Instructor Biography

Jeffrey D Mechanick

Jeffrey D Mechanick, CPA, CGMA

Senior Project Advisor/ Not-for-Profit Organizations
Financial Accounting Standards Board
Instructor's Course List

About The Instructor

Jeff Mechanick is Senior Project Advisor for Not-for-Profit Organizations at the FASB. In that role, he 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. He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the International Financial Reporting for Nonprofit Organizations initiative (#IFR4NPO).

Prior to joining the FASB staff in 2006, Jeff 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 received his MBA from Rutgers University and his AB from the University of Chicago, and he is a member of the AICPA and the New York State Society of CPAs. He is also an adjunct instructor in Columbia University's MS degree program in Nonprofit Management.