Margery Piercey

Margery is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Mass Insight Education & Research, a non-profit focused on changing students lives and changing schools around the country.

Becoming a Certified Public Accountant after graduation from Isenberg launched a career filled with experiences in a wide range of organizations and across them wearing many different hats. Margery spent most of her career in public accounting providing audit, compliance and advisory services to diverse portfolios of public and private-company clients and not-for-profit organizations. She held many leadership roles in public accounting, most recently serving as Partner-in-Charge of a National firm’s Boston office and as a member of that firm’s Executive and Diversity & Inclusion Committees through a transitional period. During her tenure, she led the integration of its suburban and Boston office teams and led office growth and team development initiatives. Her tenure in public accounting also includes having led the Commercial Industries Audit Practice and the Family Business Service Team for a large regional firm. Margery spent eight years with PricewaterhouseCoopers serving emerging and middle market businesses, colleges and universities, and other not-for-profit organizations. During a six-year hiatus from public accounting, Margery worked in industry responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and cash management with a global public manufacturing company and in the start-up environment.

Margery has lent her financial expertise and business leadership experience to a variety of organizations as a volunteer leader. Prior to coming out of a brief retirement to take on the role of CFO/COO at Mass Insight, Margery served for eight years on the Board of that organization, during which period she chaired both the Finance & Audit and Governance & Nominating Committees. Recently, Margery completed a term as Board Member of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. She is a past Board Chair of both the Massachusetts Society of CPA and the United Way of Tri-County. Margery is an active member of the Accounting Department Advisory Council of UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management and a supporter of Isenberg’s minority Careers in Accounting and Management Professions program.

The majority of Margery’s career has been as a working mom, her children now 29 and 27. She shared the familial responsibilities with her engineer husband and both spent portions of their careers on part-time schedules.