Ira assists with the InvestEd CD and in the Cyber Cafe. He teaches classes about club accounting and taxes at the local level as well as in online seminars for StockCentral.com and the Motley Fool. For more than a decade he has regularly contributed help about tax and investment issues to several online discussion groups. He received the 2005 Kenfield-Burris Award for service to the online community. Ira is a founding member and current treasurer of Lakshmi Investments LLC. Although trained as a chemist and chemical engineer, Ira has been a professional tax preparer, bookkeeper, and financial coach for more than two decades.