CPAs choose new governing board chairman, membership

The Puerto Rico Certified Public Accountants Association’s new governing board for the 2025-2026 fiscal year was sworn in at the professional organization’s recent assembly held at El Conquistador Hotel in Fajardo.

By THE STAR STAFF

Within the framework of its Annual Convention, the Puerto Rico Certified Public Accountants Association (CCPA by its initials in Spanish) announced its new governing board for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, which was sworn in at the professional organization’s assembly held last Saturday at El Conquistador Hotel in Fajardo.

The new governing board chairman is CPA David A. Rodríguez Ortiz, who has over 25 years of experience and is currently the president of the firm SAGEZA LLC. Throughout his career within CCPA, he has held various positions both on the governing board and in its committees. In 2012, he was appointed as a member of the Puerto Rico Department of State’s accountancy board.

Subsequently, in 2016-2017 Rodríguez Ortiz served as president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce.

“This year we will be setting the course for our institution under the motto: ‘Charting our course, beyond the numbers,’” Rodríguez Ortiz said during his swearing-in speech. “CPAs are not only accounting experts, auditing experts, and tax experts. We are strategists, ethical leaders, and trusted advisers. This motto is an expression of how our role in society has evolved: we want the CPA to be recognized as a key partner in the most important and transcendent decisions in Puerto Rico, both at the business and government levels.”

The CCPA Executive Committee was constituted as follows: immediate past president, Cynthia J. Rijo Sánchez; president-elect, Gerardo Torres Roldán; first vice president, Carlos de Ángel Ramírez; second vice president, Andrés Dávila Suárez; treasurer, Alexis Ortiz Ortiz; assistant treasurer, Yaritza Figueroa Hernández; secretary, Gerardo Rodríguez Negrón; and assistant secretary, Michelle de la Cruz Soto.

The directors are: Felipe J. Crespo Claudio, Yvonne Huertas Carbonell, William E. Guardiola Vargas, Nicole López Santiago, Carlos Alejandro Santana, Ángel Morales Lebrón and Karen Rochet Laboy.