{"id":486,"date":"2025-08-22T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierag.com\/?post_type=our-team&amp;p=486"},"modified":"2025-08-22T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:33:59","slug":"thomas-tom-j-raffa","status":"publish","type":"our-team","link":"https:\/\/pierag.com\/US\/our-team\/thomas-tom-j-raffa\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas (&#8220;Tom&#8221;) J. Raffa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li data-charcodes=\"8226\" data-font=\"Arial,Sans-Serif\" data-buautonum=\"8\" data-margin=\"270\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Tom Raffa\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">is a CPA with over 40 years of experience. He is a<\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">social entrepreneur focused on catalyzing positive system <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">change throughout the community.<\/span>\u200b<\/li>\n<li data-charcodes=\"8226\" data-font=\"Arial,Sans-Serif\" data-buautonum=\"8\" data-margin=\"270\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">In his prior role, he served as the national leader of Marcum\u2019s <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Nonprofit Social Sector group. Tom became part of Marcum via <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">the Firm\u2019s merger with Raffa, P.C which was founded by him in<\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">1984 and grew the firm into one of the 100 largest and best-<\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">managed accounting firms in the United States.\u00a0<\/span>\u200b<\/li>\n<li data-charcodes=\"8226\" data-font=\"Arial,Sans-Serif\" data-buautonum=\"8\" data-margin=\"270\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">A recognized pioneer in social enterprise, Tom\u2019s professional <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">and volunteer support of nonprofits has garnered him <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">numerous awards.<\/span>\u200b<\/li>\n<li data-charcodes=\"8226\" data-font=\"Arial,Sans-Serif\" data-buautonum=\"8\" data-margin=\"270\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">His current Board roles include, the Boston Philharmonic <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Orchestra, Social Impact 360, the Mental Health Coalition and <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">the Park City Community Foundation, The Alliance for <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Nonprofit Management, The United Way of the National Capital <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Area.<\/span>\u200b<\/li>\n<li data-charcodes=\"8226\" data-font=\"Arial,Sans-Serif\" data-buautonum=\"8\" data-margin=\"270\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Tom is a graduate of Georgetown University; He has served as a <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">member of the Alumni Admissions Program and a mentor at <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">the McDonough School of Business for more than 20 years.\u00a0<\/span>\u200b<\/li>\n<li data-charcodes=\"8226\" data-font=\"Arial,Sans-Serif\" data-buautonum=\"8\" data-margin=\"270\" data-aria-posinset=\"6\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">He was named the Georgetown Alumni Entrepreneur of the <\/span><span data-scheme-color=\"@001467,4,\" data-usefontface=\"true\" data-contrast=\"none\">Year in 2016.<\/span>\u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-Founder <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1535,"template":"","team-category":[16],"class_list":["post-486","our-team","type-our-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thomas (&quot;Tom&quot;) J. 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