Leadership Team

The RyanSharkey team is comprised of dedicated professionals who enjoy helping their clients succeed.

The nature of our client engagements require that we employ experienced people, capable of providing both accounting and business advice. Many of our team members have worked within Big 4 accounting firms and their large firm and large client experience enables us to possess the backgrounds necessary to deliver highly sophisticated services to our small and mid-size clients. Our partners are integrally involved in each of our client engagements, delivering a level of financial acumen, business experience and personalized service that sets us apart.

Get to know our leadership team and discover how their real-life experience and vast expertise can help you achieve your growth goals and make the tough financial decisions required to succeed.
 

RyanSharkey Partners

Edward Ryan, CPA, CVA

Managing Partner

Ed Ryan leads our assurance practice and has extensive experience in working with a range of clients including start-up organizations and large publicly held corporations. Ed has managed and assisted in all aspects of IPO's and SEC filings, performed financial statement audits, financial statement compilations and reviews, and delivered accounting and assurance services to our clients in the technology, service and government contracting industries, serving as a key advisor to company executives. 

Ed’s extensive industry knowledge allows him to provide proactive advice to client executives on key accounting issues they’re facing, including employee stock compensation, complex equity transactions, revenue recognition, financial statement presentation, SEC requirements and capitalized and internal use software issues.

Ed is an Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton alum and his strong work ethic, technical proficiency, and interpersonal skills contribute to his clients’ success.

David Sharkey, CPA

Partner

Dave Sharkey leads our tax services practice and has extensive experience in both public accounting and industry.  Dave’s expertise lies in corporate formation, structuring business combinations, tax-efficient corporate expansion (multi-state and international) and research and experimentation tax credits.  He leverages his technical tax background and corporate tax department leadership experience to develop strategic tax planning solutions for his clients.  Dave’s industry expertise includes the telecommunications, software and technology, professional services and government contracting industries.

Dave is a PricewaterhouseCoopers alum and served as Director of Taxes at PSINet, Inc. and Astrolink International, LLC.  He has been active in Virginia legislative matters, playing a lead role in an industry coalition seeking to expand sales and use tax and personal property tax incentives for Internet service providers and web hosting facilities.  Dave has also served on the Tax Subcommittee of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and is actively involved with the Northern Virginia Society of CPA's.

Scott Carruthers, CIA, CISA, MBA

Partner

Scott Carruthers is a partner in our internal audit consulting practice bringing 14 years of professional and industry experience where he gained extensive auditing and financial leadership experience while managing various projects and processes. Scott gained significant knowledge from his internal audit experience with regard to meeting the compliance requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley. His experience allows him to provide proactive consulting to his clients, including: project scoping and planning; development of adequate process documentation; identification of key controls over financial reporting; assessment of key controls relative to control design and operating effectiveness; control deficiency ratings, tracking, and remediation; operational process improvements; and certification processes.

While working in industry, Scott also gained extensive experience with financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting, and executive decision support. Prior to joining RyanSharkey, Scott was a senior manager in Sprint-Nextel’s internal audit organization, where he obtained the Certified Internal Auditor designation. Scott attended the University of Florida, where he earned a B.S. in Finance; he earned his M.B.A. at Rockhurst University.

Michael Eagan, CPA

Partner

Michael Eagan joined RyanSharkey in 2010 and serves as a partner of the firm’s Tax Services Practice. In his current role, he helps lead RyanSharkey’s tax group, striving to ensure clients receive the highest level of service possible. On the technical side, Mike provides expert tax and business advisory services to clients across a range of industries, including government contracting, manufacturing, technology and communications.

With more than 18 years of experience in the tax field, Mike offers clients extensive knowledge of tax as it relates to all areas of business. In particular, he specializes in corporate income tax, state and local tax, FAS 109, international tax, and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining RyanSharkey, Mike served as a partner at Baker Tilly (formerly Beers + Cutler), based in Vienna, Virginia. He also previously worked for Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. Additionally, Mike has served in senior management roles for publicly-traded pharmaceutical and telecommunications companies.

Paul Joseph (“P.J.”) Warwick, CISA, CIPP, CISSP

Partner

P.J. Warwick joined the partner group of RyanSharkey in 2010. He currently serves in the firm’s Internal Audit and Business Advisory Services practice, where he leads engagement teams providing high quality Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, enterprise risk assessment, and internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing services. In particular, P.J. offers leadership and expertise in a variety of technology risk matters, including information technology auditing, information security, privacy, business continuity and disaster recovery, financial and business system controls, system implementations and change management.

After 15-plus years working in the internal audit and information systems arenas, P.J. has developed a broad base of technical skills which have been instrumental in helping growing organizations establish their internal audit functions, manage risks and ultimately improve their operations. In addition, his ability to draw from his diverse industry and business experience allows him to offer a fresh perspective on his clients’ unique opportunities and challenges.

P.J. previously served as a director at Baker Tilly (formerly Beers + Cutler), where he worked for five years. He has also served in managerial roles for Freddie Mac and Arthur Andersen, LLP/ Protiviti, as well as an outsourcing liaison at Wachovia Bank.