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Colleen K. Conrad, CPA, serves as executive vice president and chief operating officer of NASBA. She is responsible for all operations of NASBA including services related to the CPA Examination, CPA licensing, the National CPA Registry and other services and products, as well as IT and risk management. Conrad also oversees governmental, international and professional relationships.

She brings more than 25 years of accounting expertise and leadership to NASBA. As a former partner in a large regional CPA firm, she practiced in the firm’s Real Estate Services Group, providing real estate, attest, tax and consulting services to clients nationwide. Before joining NASBA, Conrad served on the Missouri Board of Accountancy, with two terms as chair. Her contributions to NASBA as a committee member and featured speaker during NASBA forums date back to 1997. A longtime member of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), Conrad served a three-year term on the AICPA Council. She was a member of the AICPA Board of Examiners for 10 years, serving one term as chair.

A Kansas native, Conrad is a member of the Tennessee Society of CPAs and past president and member of the St. Louis Society of Women CPAs. Among her numerous honors, she was named as an AICPA/Missouri CPA Woman-to-Watch, Experienced Leader in 2008. In January 2014, she was appointed to the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) for a four-year term. Conrad earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Truman State University and she was named Outstanding Alumna in 2015. She also earned a master’s of science in leadership from Washington University in St. Louis.