Danny Martinez
Managing Director, Cherry Bekaert Advisory, Dallas, Texas
Danny is a licensed CPA with over 17 years of experience providing advisory and training services to a wide range of governmental entities, including municipalities and their component units, special districts, counties, school districts, tribal governments, airports, ports and hospitals.
As the leader of the Government and Public Sector Accounting Advisory group, he is responsible for the quality and growth of all of the firm’s GASB-as-a-Service, ACFR writing, and Surge Team advisory services. Under his leadership the Firm had significant growth in these services and achieved high client satisfaction and retention scores. He has provided technical accounting assistance to some of the largest cities and counties in the country. He has presented on various governmental industry and accounting topics at national and regional conferences, including the future of government, GASB updates, and internal control and grants management best practices.
Danny is the past Zone 3 (GASB) Chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Technical Issues Committee, a group that provides a voice for its constituents in the standard-setting process. In addition, Danny is a founding member of the firm’s Government Standards Outlook Committee, a group of technical leaders in the firm that keep abreast of all upcoming GASB, OMB, and AICPA changes and provides comment letters to those standard setting bodies.