Yossef Newman

Yossef Newman is an audit senior manager and project leader for XBRL at Deloitte. He has spent much of his career specializing in technology assisted auditing with a focus on the Securities and Banking Industry. As a financial auditor he has served a wide range of clients including multinational brokerage and investment firms, government securities dealers and mortgage banking entities. Yossef has also served as a member of Deloitte’s technology innovation team, helping to develop and deploy new technologies and tools within Deloitte’s Audit and Enterprise Risk Services practice.Since 2003 Yossef has been an active member of the XBRL International Consortium where he currently serves as chairman of the Taxonomy Recognition Task Force and as a member of the XBRL International Standards Board, the group responsible for managing the production of the consortium's technical materials.Prior to joining Deloitte, Yossef served as a financial accountant with D.E. Shaw & Co. L.P. As a member of the financial operations group Yossef worked with management to develop reporting processes for both domestic operations and overseas subsidiaries, participated in financial statement preparation and was responsible for the accounting and regulatory filings of a startup online broker dealer.Yossef is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of CPA’s. He received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Touro College and also studied abroad at Yeshivas Toras Moshe, Israel.