Ted Mandigo Receives Illinois CPA Society’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award

The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) has presented Theodore (Ted) Mandigo, CPA, MBA, ISHC, with its prestigious 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor ICPAS bestows on members who demonstrate distinguished service to both ICPAS and the CPA profession.

Mandigo has more than 37 years of consulting experience as a CPA and is the owner and director of TR Mandigo & Company, where he serves as an advisor to developers, lenders, and chain operators relating to hotel and resort operations. He’s also an assistant professor at Kendall College in Chicago. A graduate of Loyola University Chicago and Cornell University, Mandigo formerly held positions with BDO and Pannell Kerr Forster. He also served as the president of the ICPAS Board of Directors from 1999-2000. Mandigo has committed himself to decades of volunteer service with ICPAS, including sitting on the board of directors for several years, chairing the CPE Committee and Council, and serving on the Business Valuations Consulting Committee, Committee Structure & Volunteerism Task Force, Management Advisory Services Committee, Reg & Leg Committee, and Strategic Planning Committee, among others.

“Ted’s extensive involvement on our board and various committees and task forces throughout the years is commendable,” says Todd Shapiro, ICPAS president and CEO. “It is an honor to present Ted with our 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award.”

During his acceptance speech at ICPAS’ Leadership Recognition and Awards Dinner on June 9, 2022, Mandigo shared his interesting career path and thanked many for their support: “I am deeply honored to be included among those amazing and distinguished members who have received this award,” he said. “Events in my life kept pulling me to the accounting profession. Recognizing the impact of being a CPA, I undertook an MBA at the age of 40 with a major in accounting, followed by sitting for the CPA exam. I immediately joined ICPAS. Many thanks for the opportunities and doors that were opened.”