Brooklyn Canarsie Lions President Jean Joseph addresses 67th Annual Breakfast Fundraiser in April 2024.
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Brooklyn Canarsie Lions President Jean Joseph on Thursday was elected the brand new president of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI), succeeding Dr. Roy Hastick, the Grenadian-born CACCI’s late founder and long-standing president, who died on April 8, 2020.
“I am grateful for this chance, and thanks for placing your belief in me to take the helm of management and steer this esteemed group by way of the perilous occasions through which we stay,” mentioned Dominican-born Joseph, a licensed public accountant (CPA), in her acceptance speech quickly after her election at CACCI’s headquarters on Caton Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
“I am buoyed on this journey by the sterling legacy of the Founding Father of this group, the late Dr. the Hon. Roy Hastick,” added the Brooklyn resident. “I additionally acknowledge the work of all of the previous chairs and board members, who’ve served because the founding of the group in August 1985 to now.
“I’m honored to take over the mantle of management that you’ve handed to me,” Joseph continued. “It’s mentioned that management is the capability to translate imaginative and prescient into actuality. It’s towards that view that I am challenged to make use of my time period in workplace to deal with my imaginative and prescient of rising our membership and strengthening our present ones.
“With the impactful expertise and expertise we now have amongst our membership, we will creatively broaden our sphere of affect and, in so doing, strengthen the model that’s already a family title,” she mentioned.
Due to this fact, Joseph mentioned one of many foremost visions of her tenure can be “to supply new income streams whereas constructing on enterprise alternatives for our members.”
She mentioned enterprise training may even be part of the developmental plan, which, she mentioned, can be completed by way of seminars, commerce missions and Heads of Authorities conferences “and the likes.”
As well as, Joseph mentioned group outreach, which builds new group and company companions, will increase the “strengthening and redevelopment efforts of the CACCI Model.”
She mentioned coaching, rising procurement alternatives of Minority and Girls-Owned Enterprise Enterprises, and entrepreneurial improvement are different benchmarks on her “imaginative and prescient roll”.
“As your President, I am dedicated to offering the sort of linkages and alternatives for us to take action and far more,” Joseph mentioned. “My management may even make an impression on legacy preservation by creating methods to make sure that the title Dr. Roy Hastick stays cemented and synonymous with CACCI.
“Undoubtedly, there can be challenges forward as we navigate this new course,” she added. “However I remind you that each impediment presents a possibility to enhance.
“Allow us to collectively discover methods of eradicating the proverbial boulders of obstruction that will, in any method, hinder our progress,” Joseph continued. “If we’re to understand our needs and make the communities through which we stay and do enterprise a greater place to work and lift our households, then we have to be vigilant in our efforts towards this trigger.”
A graduate of Tempo College in New York, the place she acquired a baccalaureate of science in accounting and later attained her standing as a CPA, Joseph is an professional in tax planning, property, belief, and present tax.
She served as a supervisor for a number of blue-chip tax companies and oversaw the preparation and overview of economic statements for firms of assorted complexities. She specializes within the audit and taxation of not-for-profit organizations.
Joseph mentioned she has labored for American Categorical & Enterprise Companies as a supervisor within the Tax Division at Goldstein, Golub, and Kessler and as a CPA for Anchin, Block, and Anchin and Lionel Lewis.
She is the only real proprietor of Joseph Tax and Consulting Companies LLC and the CEO of Joseph Tax and Consulting Companies 1, Inc., each in Brooklyn. She excels at servicing numerous shoppers, together with people, companies, and not-for-profit organizations.
Her company acquired the Minority- and Girls-owned Enterprise Enterprise Award from New York State Division of Financial Growth.
In 2007, Joseph was inducted by CACCI as a enterprise visionary and member and served as an government member on the New York State Society of Licensed Public Accountants board for the Queens/Brooklyn Chapter.
She can also be the previous president of the Queens/Brooklyn Chapter of the New York State Society of Licensed Public Accountants and has served as ambassador-at-large for 2 years.
Joseph serves on the Basis for Accounting Training (FAE) Committee and the Relationship with the Inner Income Service Committee of the New York State Society of Licensed Public Accountants.
A previous president of the Brooklyn-based West Indian Day Carnival Affiliation, Inc., Joseph presently serves as treasurer of the Kings County Democratic Committee and chairperson and 4th vice chairman of the Brooklyn-based Thomas Jefferson Democratic Membership.
