Lynn Turner, chief accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), came to GVSU Tuesday to help the Seidman School of Business mark its move into its new home in downtown Grand Rapids.
The Seidman School celebrated its move into the Richard M. DeVos Center on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus with a lunch and convocation honoring Turner, who joined the SEC in July 1998.
As chief accountant, Turner advises the commission on a number of accounting and financial reporting issues, including the development and coordination of international accounting standards, oversight and development of U.S. accounting and auditing standards, and professional independence issues.
From June of 1996 to June of 1998, Turner was chief financial officer and vice president of Symbios, Inc. where he was part of the company's Executive Management Team. Symbios was an international semiconductor and storage manufacturer with over 2,400 employees. Prior to joining Symbios, he was a partner with Coopers & Lybrand. As national practice leader for the C&L High Technology Audit Practice, he had responsibility for an audit practice with more than 1,000 professionals.
Turner was awarded an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree in the Loosemore Auditorium of the DeVos Center.
There will also be a noon lunch, with featured speaker, CNBC chief commentator L. William Seidman. A Grand Rapids native, Bill Seidman was instrumental in getting the university's charter passed by the state legislature in 1960 and was one of the original members of the Board of Control. The Seidman School of Business is named for his family.
