Michael R. Pender Jr joined the firm Cavanaugh & Co LLP, Certified Public Accountants in 1976 and was made a partner in 1980. He holds the CPA designation in the states of Florida and North Carolina. He also holds an ACFE designation of a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and AICPA specialty designations as a Personal Financial Specialist (PFS), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) and is a member of the AICPA Tax Section. He served as President of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants 2010-11. He has been on numerous committees and task force of the FICPA for the last 30 years. In addition, he has served as Treasurer of National, State and Local charitable organizations for many years. He received the FICPA outstanding public award in 2003. He has published articles in the Florida CPA Today on accounting issues. He has been a featured speaker at the FICPA Not-For-Profit Conference on the topics of “Private Foundations” and “Non Profit Governance”.