Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:25pm to 5:40pm
About this Event
Marc Siegel is a Partner in EY’s Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice and a Member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). He specializes in enhancing corporate reporting and investor communications in areas such as, disclosure effectiveness, sustainability reporting, and financial performance reporting. Prior to joining EY in 2018,
Marc served as a Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Board Member from 2008 through 2018, where he finalized Accounting Standards Updates (such as revenue recognition, leases, current expected credit losses (CECL), hedging, etc.), enhanced FASB communications (focusing on plain-English and investor audiences), hosted sector specific Q&A webcasts for investors, developed podcasts on investor uses of tax disclosures and stock compensation, and hosted forums with auditors, preparers, securities regulators, securities attorneys, investors and audit committee members to kick off the Disclosure Framework project. He has been a frequent speaker at conferences on financial reporting, worked with FASB investor liaison team to improve investor outreach, and participated as a FASB Observer on the Enhanced Disclosure Task Force of the Financial Stability Board, the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Corporate Reporting Dialogue (CRD).
Previously, Marc was director of research at a boutique sell-side research firm providing forensic financial statement analysis to mutual fund and hedge fund clients to support their investment decisions. Also, Marc worked closely with Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) corporate governance and ESG research teams to identify synergies in research processes and findings. Marc has a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-NY).