Denise Wu, CPA, CGFM

Founding Partner

Denise has more than 25 years of auditing and consulting experience for public sector clients with operating resources ranging from $100 million to over $180 billion. In addition, she has several years of experience in auditing, reviewing, and compiling financial statements, as well as preparing tax returns for privately owned companies and nonprofit organizations.

Denise has published numerous thought leadership articles as well as serving on several Association of Government Accountants (AGA) chapter and regional boards and national committees. Furthermore, she has decades of experience serving on several nonprofit organizations’ boards and has received many recognition awards and accolades for her services.

Her specialities include accounting and financial advisory services in government, healthcare, transportation, research and development, grants management, internal control design and implementation, program performance and compliance, business process improvement, and financial reporting.

Before founding HPBS, Denise spent more than 20 years at CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), most recently serving as Principal-in-Charge, Federal Government Services. In that role, she served as the advisory and assurance principal/partner for the firm’s largest accounts and was responsible for managing and growing the firm’s federal government services. Her experience also includes time at Urbach, Kahn & Werlin PC.

Justice Sakyi, CPA, PMP, CGMA

Founding Partner

Justice brings over 15 years of experience providing audit and advisory services to public and private-sector clients.

He has performed financial statement audits, performance audits, and attestation engagements on large, complex federal agencies such as the Department of Education, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other federal agencies including the Government Accountability Office, the Election Assistance Commission, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the National Institutes of Health.

Before founding HPBS, Justice served as the Managing Partner at Justice Sakyi & Associates (JSA), LLC. Prior to founding JSA, Justice worked at a combination of large and mid-size firms including CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and Mitchell & Titus, previously a member firm of Ernst & Young Global (EY).