Panelist

Herb Chain, MBA, CPA

Herb currently serves as independent director and audit committee member for three public companies (The RENN Fund (NYSE:RCG), Infusive US Trust (NYSE:JOYY), and FRMO Corp. (OTC Pink: FRMO) and one private company (Qlarant)  – three as audit committee chair. He is also trustee and treasurer of his alma mater, The Kew-Forest School, an independent school in Forest hills, NY.

Herb is currently a shareholder in Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. and serves in the Professional Standards Group (firm enterprise risk management, quality control, ethics, independence, etc.) of CBIZ Marks Paneth. He also services as adjunct professor (formerly a fulltime assistant professor) in the Department of Accountancy (teaching professional ethics, SEC practice, and enterprise risk management) at St. John’s University in New York. He formerly served as the executive director of the Tobin College of Business’s Center for Executive Education and the director of external relations and chief marketing officer. Prior to this, he spent 38 years with Deloitte, the last 27 years of which as audit partner prior to mandatory retirement.

Herb received his BS degree from Duke University, his MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business, and is completing his DBA from the International School of Management.