Garden City resident Andrew (Drew) Hult, CPA, was elected Executive Vice President of the National Conference of CPA Practitioners (NCCPAP(tm)) during the organization's annual conference held earlier this Fall.

Andrew L. Hult has been a CPA in public practice for over twenty years. In 1998, he left Owen Peterson, a regional accounting firm, to set up his own CPA practice, now based in Hempstead, NY (www.alhcompany.com). Earlier in his career, Drew was a decorated naval officer and a corporate financial executive. He is a 1965 graduate from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, and has taken numerous graduate level courses in accounting from Adelphi University.

Drew has served NCCPAP on the national and local level. For NCCPAP national, Drew has served as treasurer and chaired the Council of Chapter Presidents and the ethics committee. He currently serves on the NCCPAP national issues and tax committees and is co-chair of the marketing committee. For the Nassau/Suffolk chapter of NCCPAP, he has served as chapter president and chaired the marketing committee.

In addition to his NCCPAP membership, Drew is a member of the AICPA and the New York State Society of CPAs. He has lectured before the Nassau and Suffolk Bar Associations as well as the American Management Association.

Drew is also an active participant in the Garden City community where he and his wife Marilyn reside. In his church, he served as a trustee and chair of the board of finance and administration, and currently serves on the investment committee. At his tennis club, he was treasurer and president. He also served as president of the Garden City Student Aid and Scholarship Fund. Drew and Marilyn have three children and four grandchildren.