Val D. Steed
CPA, MA, CITP
Chief Executive Officer, K2 Enterprises

Awards and Recognition:

• Accounting Today’s Top 100 Influential Accounting Professionals 1998
• AICPA 1998 Certificate of Appreciation - Strategic Planning Committee
• Accounting Today’s Top 100 Influential Accounting Professionals 1997
• 1997 Alumni Professional Achievement Award – Utah State University
• 1996 Outstanding Discussion Leader Award – Indiana Society of CPAs
• 1987 Outstanding Discussion Leader Award – Utah Association of CPAs
• AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award 1986
• AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award 1987
• AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award 1988

Professional Service:

• Three-year Member - AICPA’s Strategic Planning Committee
• Four-year Member - AICPA’s Information Technology Executive Committee
• Five-year Member - AICPA’s Microcomputer Conference Committee
• 1995 Chairman of the AICPA’s Microcomputer Conference
• Two-term Chairperson of the Consulting Services Committee
• Two-term Chairperson - CPE Committee for the Utah Association of CPAs

Val D. Steed graduated from Utah State University where he received both his Bachelors of Science (BS) in Accounting and his Masters of Accounting (MA).

After college, Val worked for Deloitte Haskins and Sells of Salt Lake City, Utah, and then with Hansen, Steed, Bradshaw & Malmrose P.C. of Salt Lake City.  Val was with Hansen, Steed, Bradshaw & Malmrose P.C. for eleven years and was a shareholder for six years before leaving to start K2 Enterprises.  Currently, Val is the CEO of K2 Enterprises which is a national technology training and consulting organization.  He has eleven years experience in public practice and has been involved with information systems and the technology industry for over twenty one years.