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Chairman
Linda W. Cropp at the request of the Mayor A PROPOSED RESOLUTION IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
To confirm the appointment of Mr. Jeffrey E.
Thompson to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Metropolitan Washington Airports
Authority Board of Directors Jeffrey E. Thompson Confirmation Resolution of 2000".
Sec. 2. The Council of the District of
Columbia confirms the appointment of:
Mr. Jeffrey E. Thompson
322 Peabody Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20011
(Ward 4)
as .member of the Metropolitan Washington
Airports Authority Board of Directors, established by section 6007(e) of the Metropolitan
Washington Airports Act of 1986, approved October 30, 1986 ( 100 Stat. 3341; D.C. Code
§7-1506(e)), for a term to end January 5, 2005.
Sec. 3. The Council of the District of
Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution, upon its adoption, each to the nominee
and to the Office of the Mayor.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect
immediately.
BIOGRAPHY OF
JEFFREY EARL THOMPSON, CPA
2025 Trumbull Terrace. N.W.
Washington, DC 20011
(202) 829-3924 (Home)
(202) 778-3400 (Office)
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Jeffrey Earl Thompson, CPA, is the Founder,
President and CEO of Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates, P.C., (the
"Firm") an accounting, management, and financial consulting firm headquartered
is Washington. D.C. Since founding the Firm in 1983, Mr. Thompson has expanded the Firm's
core audit, accounting and tax services to include specialized consulting services is the
areas of finance, management, health care, information systems, cost containment studies,
revenue enhancement studies, operating auditing, internal control reviews, governmental
accounting, economic development, asset securitization, financing, real estate, EDP
auditing, business tax planning, computer systems and support service.
As one of the nation's largest minority-owned
public accounting firms, Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates. P.C. has expanded Its
operations to five cities and currently has a staff of over 250 professionals sad
technical specialists.
Mr. Thompson has over 20 years of experience
is public accounting, governmental accounting, management, computer systems, asset
securitization, financing, financial management, reel estate and business consulting.
Prior to establishing Thompson. Cobb, Bazilio & Associates, P.C., he saved as the
Manager of Financial Services for the Washington Business Development Center which was
funded by the Minority Business Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
While at the Washington Business Development Center, he was successful in securing over
$23 million of debt and equity financing for numerous minority-owned businesses in the
Washington metropolitan area.
Mr. Thompson began his accounting career in
1976 as a bookkeeper at the National Rifle Association of America. Concurrently, he
attended the University of the District of Columbia where he received his baccalaureate
degree in accounting.
Under Mr. Thompson's leadership, Thompson,
Cobb, Bazilio & Associates, P.C. has developed significant specialization in the area
of asset securitization and financing. To date, he has provided due diligence, accounting,
asset valuation and related services to the Resolution Trust Corporation, the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, and several Wall Street financial advisors on over $25
billion of asset securitization transactions. The Firm is also a member of the Financial
Advisory Team for the Government National Mortgage Associations' REMIC program, which
involves the securitization of over $150 billion of collateral.
In the area of financing, the Firm, under Mr.
Thompson's leadership, has successfully provided services to numerous governmental and
quasi-governmental entities on over $4.5 billion of bond and other type of financing for
construction, housing and other capital budget projects. Mr Thompson has also directed
numerous audit and assurance, management and financial consulting engagements to provide
professional services to several clients in the transportation industry. These clients
include the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit System, the Washington Metropolitan Transit,
Authority, the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Southern California Regional
Rail Authority, the Riverside County Transportation Commission, and the South Coast Air
Quality Management District in California.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
Mr. Thompson is a 1980 "Magna cum
laude" accounting and finance baccalaureate graduate of the University of the
District of Columbia and was honored in 1992 as the University's Alumnus of the Year. He
is a certified public accountant in the District of Columbia.
HONORS AND AWARDS
On May 24, 1997, the University of the
District of Columbia, his alma mater, honored Mr. Thompson by conferring on him in
honorary "Doctor of Laws" degree.
In July 1994, Mr. Thompson was honored by the
National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) as its "1994 Outstanding
Entrepreneur of the Year in Public Accounting."
On October 20, 1995, Mr. Thompson received the
"1995 Minority Business Opportunity Commissioner's Award" from the District of
Columbia's Department of Human Rights and Minority Development for advanced business
achievements.
In July 1997, Mr. Thompson received a special
achievement award from NABA at its 1997 annual convention in Miami, Florida.
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
- Treasurer and Board member of the Lincoln
Theater Foundation, Washington, D.C.
- Finance Chair and Board Member, 100 Black Men
of Greater Washington, D.C.
- Chair of the Budget Committee for the 100 Black
Men of America, Inc.
- Board Member of the Good Samaritans Foundation
- Mr. Thompson is also a member of the National
Association of Black Accountants, Inc. and is as active mater of NABA's Division of Puma.
In addition, he is a member of the Greater Washington Society of Certified Public
Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a very
active member of 100 Black Men of Greater Washington, D.C. and is also a member of the
President's Club of the University of the District of Columbia.
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
In addition to his affiliations with the
organizations listed above, Mr. Thompson's civic duties include:
- Member of the selection panel that recruited,
interviewed and recommended the paw Chief Financial Officer and the Inspector General to
the Mayor for the District of Columbia Government.
- Member of the University of the District of
Columbia Alumni Association and the President's Club for outstanding contribution as as
alumnus of the University of the District of Columbia.
- Major contributor and supporter of the
"Young People on the Rise" after school, tutorial, college scholarship and
development program for youths of the District of Columbia.
- Member of the Advisory Board for Boys Town D.C.
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