Irving Dela Cruz, CPA (NJ/VA), CGMA, CIA®

Irving Dela Cruz is the Managing Director of ICD Consulting LLC, a firm that provides consulting and outsourced services to nonprofits. Irving has over 30 years of extensive accounting, finance, auditing, and consulting experience.

Irving was the former Chief Financial Officer START Treatment & Recovery Centers, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides specialized treatments to adults with opioid disorders. Prior to START, he served in a similar capacity at VIP Community Services, a non-profit based in the Bronx that offers comprehensive and integrated medical, behavioral health, housing, and other wraparound services, and at the Asian Americans for Equality, a nonprofit nationally recognized as an innovative housing developer and property manager.

Prior to his involvement in nonprofit finance operations, Irving worked as an audit manager at Marks Paneth LLP (now CBIZ Marks Paneth & MHM), one of the largest accounting firms in the New York region. He planned and managed audits of various nonprofits such as – social service organizations, child-care services, behavioral health, rehabilitation facilities, charitable, schools and colleges, and fundraising and membership organizations including those requiring Single Audits under the Federal Uniform Guidance.

Irving is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in New Jersey and the State of Virginia and has the Certified Internal Auditor® (CIA®) designation, a globally accepted certification for internal auditors. In April 2014, Irving obtained the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation, which recognizes professionals who have deep understanding of finance and have expanded their business skills through experience as management accountants to help drive better business decisions.