A. Michael Gellman is an independent Fiscal and Financial Strategist for nonprofit organizations and a founding principal partner for Fiscal Strategies 4 Nonprofits, LLC where his primary focus is helping legacy organizations and new organizations build and achieve a sustainable and financially healthy future while enhancing mission delivery and capacity.  Mr. Gellman was a previously a Partner for Rubino & Company, Chartered for over 20 years.

Michael is a past-president of the Greater Washington Society of CPAs (GWSCPA) and a former chair of Not-For-Profit Organizations Symposium and Not-For-Profit Committee. He also serves on numerous nonprofit boards including B’nai B’rith International as the current International Treasurer.

He regularly teaches adjunct classes in nonprofit management for Georgetown University and conducts numerous seminars on budgeting, fiscal and financial sustainability, effective financial messaging and strategic planning for exempt organizations for national and local nonprofit organizations including American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), federal and state agencies and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organizational Management. He is the author of numerous articles, including articles entitled Creating Financial Expectations is Healthy, Balancing Mission Resources and Sustainability, Three-Dimensional Financial Messaging, Creating a Culture of Projections and Attributes to Consider and Balance When Making Financial Decisions.

Benjamin Takis is an attorney practicing in the field of nonprofit organizations and is the founder of Takis Nonprofit Law PLLC, where he represents public charities, private foundations, trade associations, and other nonprofits of all types and sizes. Prior to starting his own firm in 2012, Ben worked as an associate for 6 years at two leading Washington D.C. boutique firms: Bredhoff & Kaiser and Groom Law Group. Ben also served as Of Counsel to Weinberg, Jacobs & Tolani LLP from 2013 until Mark Weinberg’s retirement in 2015, after which Ben took on Mark Weinberg’s nonprofit law practice under his own firm.

Ben is a frequent speaker and writer on nonprofit law, tax, corporate governance, and business management for a variety of organizations and educational institutions, including the District of Columbia Bar and Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. Ben’s writing on employee benefits matters has twice been featured in BNA publications, and his writing on tax-exempt organizations law has been featured in the Thomson Reuters publication Taxation of Exempts.