The Xpitax Leadership Team
Mark Albrecht, Chief Executive Officer
Glen Keenan, President
Barry MacQuarrie, Chief Information Officer
James R. Baltimore, Tax Compliance Director
Gary S. Spaulding, Chief Technology Officer
Mark Albrecht, Chief Executive Officer
Mark Albrecht is the CEO and founder of Xpitax and a founding partner of Kirkland Albrecht & Fredrickson, P.C.. He has over 23 years of experience in public accounting, specializing in tax services. He is a current member of the Board of Trustees of Eastern Bank and a member of their audit committee. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Boston College and a Masters Degree in Taxation from Bentley College in Waltham, MA. He currently holds securities Series 6 and 66 licenses from the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Mark is past Chairman of the Notre Dame Academy Golf Tournament, is a member of the Archbishop Williams Athletic Hall of Fame and is a former member of the Boston College hockey team, captain 1976.
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Glen Keenan, President
Glen Keenan is the President of Xpitax. He has extensive experience in public accounting, having worked at the Boston Office of Deloitte & Touche for almost a decade. He specialized in the paperless workpaper environment, internal controls and risk assessment. He has also been an active contributor to the high tech community in the Boston area, having most recently served as the financial officer of a software company specializing in workflow, and document management.
Glen is a current member of the Advisory Board of Lexalytics and a member of their audit committee. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Glen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Boston College.
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Barry MacQuarrie, Chief Information Officer
Barry MacQuarrie, CPA is the Chief Information Officer for Xpitax. Barry has extensive experience working with paperless office solutions, networking technologies, and Internet applications. Barry has over fifteen years experience working with CPA firm technologies.
Barry is a member of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA) and the AICPA Information Technology Membership Section. Barry has served on various committees of the MSCPA.
Barry has been a guest speaker on the subject of paperless office technologies and other CPA firm technologies for the MSCPA, CCH Incorporated and various CPA associations. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Babson College.
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James R. Baltimore, Tax Compliance Director
As tax compliance director for Xpitax, Jim Baltimore is responsible for training the offshore accountants in the areas of tax software and tax preparation. Jim shares his time between India during tax season maintaining quality of excellence and Braintree developing new training for offshore personnel. He will also interface with the Xpitax customer base. Previously Jim spearheaded an outsourcing initiative for a 200 person accounting firm managing workflow, technology and technical tax aspects of outsourcing.
Jim holds a Master of Science in Taxation from Bentley College and has qualified for the Personal Financial Specialist designation awarded by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In addition, Jim has a Series 7 NASD license and insurance license from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Gary S. Spaulding, Chief Technology Officer
Gary has over 19 years experience designing and supporting network infrastructures. After working with Novell networks for several years, in 1993 he became a Charter Member Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) specializing in Microsoft Back Office solutions. Involved with Windows NT, Active Directory, SMS, SQL Server, and Exchange since their beta development versions, Gary's experience with Microsoft technologies is extensive. For five years, he worked exclusively in the Data Center industry, designing redundant, load-balanced, high-availability systems and networks supporting Internet commerce sites. He has also designed large-scale (over 35,000 users) Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Plans (DR/BCP) that address network failure scenarios. Gary is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and has worked extensively for one of the Common Criteria Testing Labs (CCTL) evaluating security evidence as part of the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS), an internationally recognized method of certifying security related hardware and software solutions. In a previous life, Gary was a professional clarinetist, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Jordan College of Fine Arts, studied at Peabody Conservatory, and has performed around the world.
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