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Widener Administration

Widener welcomes new member to Board of Trustees

By Matthew Sullivan '22 communication studies

Widener University is pleased to announce that new Board of Trustees member Tim Speiss, a past president of Widener’s Alumni Association, attended his first board meeting Oct. 20. 

Speiss is a prominent New York-based personal wealth advisor and tax partner with extensive experience in providing services to senior executives and other distinguished clients. He has been an active alumnus who has devoted significant time and resources to the university.

“I am excited to welcome Tim Speiss to the Widener University Board of Trustees,” Widener President Stacey Robertson said. “Tim brings immense talent and valuable business experience along with a relentless commitment to Widener’s success. All of this will help make our board more effective. Tim’s enthusiasm for the university is inspiring and contagious. I can’t wait to begin working with him as a trustee.”

Speiss earned a bachelor of business accounting degree from Widener in 1983 and a master's degree in taxation in 1989. He is a tax partner for EisnerAmper LLP, where he works in the Private Clients Services Group and chairs the firm’s Asia Practice. His work is concentrated in tax planning, investment, compensation, and financial planning services. Speiss also earned a certificate in financial management from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and is a certified public accountant in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Houzhou, China.

Speiss has extensive board experience supporting nonprofit business, education and arts organizations. In addition, he serves on the university’s School of Business Administration Dean’s Advisory Council, which he helped establish and has chaired, and the Accounting and Information Management Advisory Board. He is a decorated alumnus having been honored with the 2009 John C. Sevier Award, the 2003 Distinguished Performance in Management Award and the 2001 Outstanding Alumnus Award. He has given generously to the university for three decades, including by establishing the Timothy Speiss Endowed Fund for the Promotion of Global Business. 

The Board of Trustees appointment is a three-year term that took effect in May. 

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