Eric Russell is a Director with ENJ PLLC responsible for management consulting and regulatory compliance engagements with primarily public sector clients. Over the course of his 20-year career, he has served in numerous executive and senior management capacities, including serving as a Director and Senior Manager within two public accounting and consulting firms, Deputy Finance Director for one of the largest municipalities in the United States, and President of two separate not-for-profit organizations’ boards. He specializes in federal grants and contracts, audit readiness and response, asset management, and public financial management. Never one to avoid an opportunity to give back to the profession, Eric is often called upon to deliver training presentations. He has delivered training for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), Thompson Grants, the Association of Government Accountants, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Ohio Grants Summit, and numerous others.

Eric brings a wealth of audit-related experience to the table having served as an auditor, auditee, audit trainer, and consultant. During his 13-year tenure with Crowe LLP, Eric led more than 100 audits executed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards. These included financial and performance audits conducted on behalf of federal offices of inspectors general as well as program-specific and for-profit entity audits required by federal agencies. In addition, Eric served as both a program specialist and technical quality reviewer for audits of certain transit and transportation agencies, housing agencies and authorities, and energy and utility-related entities.

As part of his responsibilities within local government, Eric worked significantly in an audit preparation and readiness role documenting and implementing certain procedures, developing audit finding responses and overseeing corrective action. Eric has also worked with numerous organizations to establish and execute internal audit units and monitoring programs, conduct forensic analyses and investigations, prepare financial statements, schedules, reconciliations, and to document policies and procedures needed to support, manage, or otherwise satisfy audit requirements and address various related risks.

Eric is the Immediate Past President of the National Grants Management Association’s (NGMA) Board of Directors and is a current member of the Thompson Grants Advisory Board. He is an alumnus of The Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs and of Stetson University’s School of Business Administration.