Accounting Advisory Board
The Stony Brook University Career Center and College of Business Accounting Advisory Board is made up of recruiting partners who are invested in hiring Stony Brook University students for top internships and full-time jobs. Students can find valuable information about the accounting industry on the Career Center's Accounting Resources Website.
Peter Diakovasilis, CPA, MST
Principal, Core Tax Services
BDO USA
Peter is a Tax Principal with more than 20 years of experience in public accounting. His experience encompasses corporate and pass-through entity tax planning and consulting for both federal and state income taxes for New York Metro area clients, including multinational and multi-state companies.
Peter’s experience ranges from publicly–held corporations to privately-owned businesses and their owners in a various industries, including: retail & consumer products, manufacturing & distribution, private equity, healthcare, real estate, technology, and life sciences.
Peter has also been a frequent instructor at BDO’s National Training Conferences and other local training programs.
About BDO USA
BDO USA provides professional assurance, tax and advisory services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. The firm serves clients through more than 80 offices and over 750 independent alliance firms nationwide. As an independent Member Firm of BDO International Limited, BDO USA serves multi-national clients through a global network of more than 95,000 people working out of more than 1,700 offices across 164 countries and territories.
Ken Cerini
Managing Partner
Cerini & Associates, LLP
Ken is the Managing Partner of Cerini & Associates, LLP and is the executive responsible for the administration of our not-for-profit and educational provider practice groups. In addition to his extensive audit experience, Ken has been directly involved in providing consulting services for nonprofits and educational facilities of all sizes throughout New York State in such areas as cost reporting, financial analysis, Medicaid compliance, government audit representation, rate maximization, board training, budgeting and forecasting, and more.
Ken has won numerous awards, and has been quoted in publications such as Newsday, Long Island Business News, the Long Island Press, and the New York Times. Ken is the editor for two of the seven newsletters published by the firm, including The Report Card, written for private schools, and The Special ED-ition, published for special education providers. He taught a graduate level nonprofit accounting course at LIU-Post.
Kelli-Anne Cerini
Marketing Manager
Cerini & Associates, LLP
Kelli-Anne is a Manager for Cerini & Associates’ marketing staff. She oversees all marketing and communications efforts for the firm. Kelli-Anne is heavily involved in firm operations, recruitment, and development. She work’s with the firm’s various services areas and management team to define and meet growth goals, as well as working to help organize and promote the Long Island and New York City Imagine Awards.
About Cerini & Associates, LLP
Cerini & Associates, LLP is a full service accounting firm with a staff of 80, 8 partners, and a foundation built on value-added ideas and integrity. We serve many industries, including healthcare, nonprofit, technology, education, startups, school districts, and construction, among many others. We provide diverse services including audit, internal audit, tax, accounting assistance, cost reporting, and a wide range of consulting services.
Peter Andrieszyn
Tax Director
CohnReznick
Peter Andrieszyn, CPA, is a Tax Director at CohnReznick and a member of the Firm’s Private Client Services Group, which provides high-quality accounting and tax services to a variety of small and large businesses, as well as to high-net-worth individuals. He has over 25 years of diversified public accounting experience working with both small closely-held entities and large corporate clients in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, consulting, retail/wholesale, technology, construction, real estate, and personal services. Peter provides clients with tax planning and compliance and consulting services, as well as necessary accounting, bookkeeping, and outsourced CFO services.
Kiegh Dudley
Senior Campus Recruiting Specialist
CohnReznick
Kiegh Dudley, CPA, is a Senior Campus Recruiting Specialist overseeing the assurance campus recruiting efforts for CohnReznick’s five New York Metro offices, including the company’s headquarters in Manhattan, NY, and national assurance teams such as IT Audit. He has quite an interesting journey, previously working in both the assurance and advisory service lines within the public accounting profession. He started his career in the commercial audit group of CohnReznick, allowing him to gain exposure to a variety of SEC and privately-owned businesses spanning a diverse portfolio of industries. As a Senior Associate, he transferred to CohnReznick’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) practice specializing in financial due diligence and deal advisory. Throughout his time on the client service side, he consistently chose to get involved in the firm’s recruiting initiatives in addition to committees and mentorship programs at various colleges and universities. That passion and experience is ultimately what brought him to his current role in talent acquisition. His hope is to leverage his experience of having worked in two out of the three service lines in public accounting to offer a unique perspective to speak from when engaging with college faculty as well as their students, to try and enlighten them on the exciting opportunities this industry has to offer. This passion also led Kiegh to serve as an Adjunct Lecturer within the College of Business at Stony Brook University, whereby he was further able to bridge the gap between the classroom and the accounting profession.
About CohnReznick
CohnReznick helps organizations optimize performance, manage risk, and maximize value through associated firms operating under the CohnReznick brand: CohnReznick LLP, a licensed CPA firm providing assurance services; and CohnReznick Advisory LLC (not a licensed firm) providing advisory and tax services. With a legacy spanning more than a century, the firm supports clients across 30 industries and across the globe. With offices throughout the United States and four offshore subsidiaries, CohnReznick’s membership in Nexia International extends its reach to more than 128 countries. The firm can help clients achieve their growth objectives wherever they choose to do business. CohnReznick is a certified Great Place to Work® since 2022 and was named among INSIDE Public Accounting's 2025 Best of the Best CPA Firms. CohnReznick was on Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces® list for three years in a row and routinely earn numerous industry awards. The firm’s commitment to a diverse, inclusive culture has earned them recognition from Vault as a Top 5 firm for overall diversity and LGBTQ diversity and a top 3 firm for racial and ethnic diversity.
Michael Percent
Partner
KPMG LLP
Michael (“Mike”) Percent is a partner within KPMG’s New York Metropolitan Area with more than thirty years of experience serving national and global clients primarily in KPMG’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice. Mike is the Audit Group Leader for KPMG’s Long Island office, an SEC Review Partner, and serves as Account Executive on several of the firm’s prestigious clients.
In Mike’s role as a lead audit partner, he is responsible for the global delivery of audit and attestation services. Mike’s client experience has been focused on public companies (SEC registrants) across the technology sector, including fin-tech, business services & equipment, and distribution. Mike has supported clients with initial public offerings, secondary and shelf registrations, as well as private-placement offerings. Mike served in KPMG’s Department of Professional Practice, and is experienced with resolving complex technical accounting and SEC financial reporting issues. Earlier in Mike’s career, he served in KPMG’s financial services practice, serving commercial banks, thrifts, community banks, mortgage banks and credit unions. Mike has supported the effectiveness of the firm’s audit practice as a concurring review partner, an Audit Methodology and Tools Specialist, a Quality Performance and Compliance reviewer, an external peer reviewer and a Computer Processing Specialist.
Liz Pelan
Partner
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC)
Liz is a partner in PwC’s asset and wealth management practice in New York. Liz has over 20 years of experience helping clients strengthen their control environment, organize their infrastructure and provide enhanced guidance around accounting policies and procedures in order to enable them to maximize opportunities with current and future investors.
Liz is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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