Emily Yeh

I started my finance career in 1993 after graduating with my IT bachelor's degree, taking a part-time finance position while working full-time as a student to complete my accounting bachelor's degree in 1994. My first employer kept me for several years until 1997 when the company closed due to retirement. I then joined a company in Huntington that was doing online banking finance, partnered with Visa and IBM, but got laid off in November 1998 when the funding fell through. In 1998, I joined Therami, a biotech company, starting with just 5 people including the CEO and CFO, and we grew to 100 people within 2 years before the company was sold and merged with Gene Logic in 2003. I moved to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association as a senior accountant, which I really enjoyed for the challenging work. In 2007, I joined Advantage Solutions, a woman-owned government contracting firm, but got laid off in December 2012 when we lost our contract after growing too big to maintain woman-owned protections. During that same time, my father got ill, so I moved back from Maryland to Virginia. I worked at Panera Bread as a restaurant manager from June 2013 until December 2019 when COVID-19 hit and we had to lay people off. I then returned to my finance field through various consulting and contract positions, and since January 2014, I've been working with ASTHO on a contract basis. My day-to-day responsibilities include cash receipts, helping navigate contracting, setting up job codes for billing, dealing with memberships, resolving problems, booking revenue, and doing monthly and weekly closings. I've always wanted to do my own business and I'm taking classes to eventually open my own bookkeeping firm for small businesses.