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Joel Hughes
Joel Hughes is responsible for setting the company’s direction and leading the execution of that strategy with the Rightworks leadership team. Since 2017, he has successfully overseen the rapid scaling of the business, including the acquisition of seven companies, transforming Rightworks into the only intelligent cloud purpose-built for accounting firms and professionals. He has an extensive track record of developing and growing businesses and has deep knowledge of corporate strategy and team building.
Before Rightworks, Joel was Senior Vice President of Emerging Business at Constant Contact, where he led strategy, and corporate development and had P&L responsibility for a portfolio of emerging growth businesses. As CEO at LiveWire Mobile (Nasdaq: LVWR), Joel led the transition of NMS Communications (Nasdaq: NMSS) from a hardware company to a mobile software and media business.
Michael Bird
Michael oversees the day-to-day operations of Rightworks. He’s also charged with expanding the current intelligent cloud product and service offerings. Michael brings more than 20 years of experience building market-leading businesses across the data, analytics and software industries.
Most recently, at Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), Michael ran a $750M global business and substantially improved revenue growth, customer satisfaction, product innovation and profitability for his division. During his tenure, Michael drove the identification and successful integration of multiple strategic acquisitions. Prior to Dun & Bradstreet, Michael served as CEO at NetProspex, Inc. (which D&B acquired), Senior Vice President at BzzAgent, Inc. and Vice President at CNET Networks, Inc.
Roman Kepczyk
Roman H. Kepczyk, CPA is Director of Firm Technology Strategy at Rightworks. His primary focus is helping firms throughout North America effectively use information technology by educating and directing owners towards today’s optimized CPA firm production processes.On a technical level, Roman is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, AICPA Certified Information Technology Professional and CGMA.
Roman has been named by one of the profession’s Most Recommended Consultants by INSIDE Public Accounting every year of the list from 2004 through 2017, as well as CPA Practice Advisor’s Top 25 Thought Leaders from 2010 to 2018. Accounting Today listed him as one of 2018’s Top 100 Most Influential People within the accounting profession (for the thirteenth time).
He has spent the past 23 years consulting exclusively with CPA firms and prior to that, 10 years with the CPA firm of Henry & Horne, (Arizona’s largest regional firm) where he was the partner in charge of the firm’s Management Advisory Services and Microcomputer Consulting practices. Roman also served as the firm’s Administrative partner where he oversaw Internal Accounting, Marketing, Human Resources, and was responsible for the creation and implementation of the firm’s technology plan and budget.
Roman is also an Advisory Board Member to the CPA Firm Management Association (formerly Association for Accounting Administration) and has served on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Society of CPAs. He has been a featured National and Regional speaker to thousands of CPA firms on information technology.
Our Story
Since 2002, we’ve been delivering purpose-built solutions for accounting professionals and their connected clients. Our focus has been clear: To help the profession continually progress by providing secure, advanced and easy-to-use solutions and services—and all with dedicated, expert support.
It all started with HyperRight, our patented hosting technology, built specifically for accounting and tax workflows. For over a decade, we’ve delivered secure hosted environments for the most popular applications—including QuickBooks, Lacerte, ProSeries and Drake software.
In 2017, Joel Hughes, Rightworks CEO, began to look for ways to expand the value of our cloud offering to help firm leaders and staff simplify how they do business via curated technologies and business strategy best practices. He also guided the company in building a trusted, established community of thought leaders and resources that customers could easily access. Since 2017, we have acquired seven companies to help make this vision a reality.
Today, operating under the Rightworks brand, we represent the leading vertical cloud service provider—offering the only intelligent cloud purpose-built for accounting firms and professionals. We offer comprehensive solutions and recognize the importance of education to support and drive the profession forward. Additionally, our award-winning customer care team has earned industry accolades and continues to differentiate the company.