Justin Doucette serves as the Chief Financial Officer of MRG Marketing & Management, Inc. Doucette is responsible for the day-to-day accounting processes, paperless accounting deployment and oversees the financial and tax reporting systems, as well as cash management.

With his wife Deborah (herself a well-credentialed CPA), Doucette in 1997 established a business and tax consultancy called Justin Time Enterprises, Inc. That company business continues to provide provides bookkeeping, business organization, business planning and tax services to a multitude of small businesses and specializes in the restaurant industry.

Doucette obtained his Certified Public Accountant designation in 1994, after achieving the third highest score in Nevada on the Uniform CPA Exam. He has more than thirteen years of accounting, tax and auditing experience, and completed his audit and experience requirements with the CPA firm of Deloitte & Touche, LLP. While with Deloitte & Touche, LLP, he performed audit and accounting services for a variety of public and privately-held clients, with specialization in internal control systems and in the hospitality industry.

A resident of Las Vegas for more than twenty years, Doucette is a graduate of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and currently holds a Master's Degree in Hotel Administration (Summa Cum Laude, 2000) and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration (Cum Laude, 1992).

Active in the community, Doucette is a Past-Chairman of the Nevada Restaurant Association and also serves as Vice-Chairman of the Nevada Restaurant Self-Insured Group. Doucette also currently serves as the Executive Director of the Nevada Gaming & Hospitality Association. In these capacities, he is active in local and national politics, holding frequent meetings with elected and appointed offices. Doucette is also a past Treasurer of Habitat for Humanity.

During 2002 and 2003, Doucette was appointed by the Secretary of the United States Treasury and served within the Treasury's "Taxpayer Advocacy Panel" as an ombudsman for the taxpayer to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Within the Panel, Justin was elected to serve as Area Chairman of and coordinated the efforts of eleven western states plus Alaska and Hawaii. Doucette was also a member of the Joint Committee, which provided oversight of the entire panel of more than one hundred citizens.

Doucette holds accreditations through various institutions. Through the National Restaurant Association, Doucette has been recognized with both Servsafe and FMP (Foodservice Management Professional) designations. He currently holds a Nevada Real Estate Salesman License and is active in local real estate. Doucette is a member of the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants (NSCPA) as well as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). In 2002, Doucette was honored by In Business Las Vegas Magazine as one of the "Top 40 Businesspeople Under 40". In 2004, Doucette was again honored by In Business Las Vegas Magazine's "Who's Who In Business".

Doucette has written numerous articles for such publications as Nevada Hospitality, Washington Weekly, and Hospitality Research Finance Monitor and has been quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nation's Restaurant News, the Reno Gazette, the Las Vegas Business Press, and the Las Vegas Sun, and has appeared on televised news segments for Channel 8 (CBS), Cable 1 and Cable 39.

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