ANDREW MINTZER
Principal
Hemming Morse, LLP
Andy Mintzer is a leader in the accounting profession in Los Angeles, nationally and globally. His leadership of the accounting profession is significant. He has been an active leader of CalCPA over his 36 years of membership, having chaired eight different groups or committees of CalCPA – and ultimately being elected the chair of CalCPA for 2016-2017.
Mintzer is on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of CPAs, the largest national body of professional accountants in the US and he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, a global organization with 700,000 members and is an elected member of the governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants based in the UK.
Mintzer’s most significant career accomplishment is his unique distinction of serving as a professional standard setter on four different standard setting bodies for a total of 16 years (and counting). He has contributed, in the public interest, in setting profession-wide ethics, auditing and accounting standards and has served on the International Ethics Standards Board of Accountants, AICPA’s Professional Executive Committee, Auditing Standards Board and Accounting Standards Executive Committee.
Mintzer also sets an example by being active in the Los Angeles area not-for-profit community. He is serving on the Audit Committees of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles as well as the American Jewish University. He previously served terms on the Los Angeles County Bar Association Audit Committee and was on the Board of Directors of Public Counsel, the largest provider of pro bono legal services in the US.
