Melville, NY – June 1, 2024 – The Long Island Capital Alliance (“LICA”), Long Island’s leading non-profit capital formation and business development organization, today announced the appointment of Jill S. Scher to its Board of Directors, effective June 1, 2024. With this addition, LICA’s Board has expanded to 12 members.
“We are excited to welcome Jill Scher to the Board of the Long Island Capital Alliance,” said Michael A. Lane, Chairman of LICA. “She is known extensively throughout the middle market accounting and professional consulting services sector, and many of our other Board members have worked with her professionally for years. Now, we’ll be able to collaborate with her on a non-profit basis to help promote business growth on Long Island.”
Jill Scher, CPA, MS, has over 25 years of experience in both public and private accounting, working with businesses across diverse industries such as manufacturing, technology, cannabis, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and green energy. She specializes in tax consulting, transaction structuring, compliance, and representation. Jill is a sought-after speaker on topics like tax strategies, incentives, planning, and professional ethics.
Ms. Scher provides comprehensive guidance to start-up entities, from formation to fulfilling income tax filing obligations, ensuring compliance with Federal, State, and local requirements. She assists clients in implementing tax minimization and deferral strategies and identifying opportunities for tax incentive programs such as research & development and work opportunity tax credits. Her services also extend to advising foreign companies operating in the U.S. and domestic companies with overseas operations on the tax implications of potential transactions. She has successfully assisted numerous clients with IRS and State penalty abatements.
In her role at CBIZ, Inc. (and its predecessor Marcum LLP), Jill leads business development efforts, establishing new relationships and expanding business for the Accounting Services Group. She has built a strong network within the legal, insurance, investment, and consulting professions, leveraging their expertise as needed.
Jill also develops and teaches tax, technical, and professional ethics courses for CPE, Inc., NBI, and MyLawCLE, providing continuing education to CPAs and Attorneys nationally.
Jill is based out of CBIZ's Melville, NY office but serves clients nationally. Currently, she serves on the financial committee of the Tesla Science Center. She previously served as a Director on the Board of the Nassau Chapter of the New York State Society of CPAs. Jill earned her BS in Accounting and MS in Taxation from the State University of New York at Albany.
About Long Island Capital Alliance
Since 1984, the Long Island Capital Alliance (www.licapital.org), formerly known as Long Island Venture Group, has been promoting business growth on Long Island. LICA seeks to create a productive and business-friendly environment that will afford area businesses access to the resources necessary to compete successfully in today’s markets. LICA serves as a focal point for the exchange of ideas among new and existing business enterprises, successful entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers. Through quarterly capital forums and special meetings, LICA brings together members of the region’s business community and has been recognized as the place to turn to when small businesses need equity, debt, or other financing, or for investors to find an attractive investment opportunity.
LICA’s mission is to encourage economic development on Long Island by facilitating capital formation for a broad range of companies in various industries, from early stage to mature, middle market, closely held and publicly-traded businesses. LICA accomplishes this primarily through education, networking, quarterly capital forums, periodic special educational meetings, and alliances with other regional organizations. LICA brings together members of the region’s business community and serves as the finance arm for significant local business and organizations.
The work of LICA in assisting dozens of local companies in raising over $150 million and providing business formation consultation would not be possible without the support of its sponsors. A total of 14 sponsors provide LICA, a non-profit organization, with financial contributions and in-kind services.
Our sponsors contribute significant time and effort to the success of LICA. Please support them! For more information on LICA sponsors and next events, please contact LICA today or register online at www.licapital.org.
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