In her role as CEO, Sharon works directly with the NCACPA Board of Directors and the Executive Committee to set the strategic direction of the Association. Additionally, she works with the Tax Resource Group, and represents the membership with various state governmental entities, including the NC State Board of CPA Examiners, the NC Department of Revenue, and the North Carolina General Assembly.
Sharon currently serves as President of the CPA Society Executives Association, as a member of the NC State Master of Accounting Advisory Board, and on the ECU College of Business Advisory Board.

Sharon is a Past President of the Association Executives of North Carolina, a former member of the AICPA National Commission on Diversity & Inclusion, and the Louisburg College Board of Trustees. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteer work focusing on adoption.

Sharon received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

David Nance serves as Deputy Director for the NC State Board of CPA Examiners. With the State Board, he oversees its financial and administrative functions as well as assists Professional Standards activities. He previously worked for over 30 years as an audit manager for the Office of the State Auditor (OSA).

He received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in December of 1981, the year of the Michael Jordan jump shot and Dean Smith’s first National Championship. He has been a CPA since 1986.

As Deputy Director for the State Board, his responsibilities include overseeing financial activities, including the preparation of monthly financial statements for Board review; oversight of personnel activities, including employee evaluations; final review of the CPA examination applications allowing candidates to sit; and technical involvement with the Board’s professional standards section in reviewing disciplinary actions.

In his years of service with the OSA, he worked on audits across the state government spectrum including the Department of Transportation, Wildlife Resources, the Department of Administration, and the NC Ports Authority. He also spent over 12 years overseeing the OSA’s non-profit audit efforts for the Smart Start programs. His main area of responsibility in the latter years with OSA was oversight of the audit efforts for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and its numerous human services programs.

D. Scott Showalter, CPA, CGMA, CGFM is a professor of practice and the Director of the Master of Accounting Program at the Poole College of Management at NC State University where he has received numerous awards for teaching, research and service excellence. Prior to entering academia, Scott was an audit partner with KPMG LLP, where he completed his 33-year career in July of 2008. He is a member of the AICPA Council and is the past chairman of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board. He joined the North Carolina Association of CPA’s Board of Directors in 2016 and served as the chair 2018-2019. He completed a five-year term as a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standing Advisory Group and as a commissioner in the Pathways Commission. He is very active with the American Accounting Association, having served (and currently serving) in various leadership roles. He has written numerous articles on data analytics, consulted with businesses and regulators about the impact of data analytics, and is a frequent speaker on the topic. Scott received his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Richmond.