John D. Woodburn
The Woodburn Group
1660 S. Hwy 100, Suite 224
St. Louis Park, MN 55416-1526
(952)-542-3800
JWoodburn@woodburn.com
www.wooodburn.com  

The founder of the Woodburn Group, John D. Woodburn established the Company in 1989. His vision is to improve organizations through efficient and effective Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. In 1999, he co-authored the AICPA Strategic Business Initiative and is chair of the AICPA Electronic Business Task Force. In 2000 he was selected to serve on the AICPA Top Ten Technology Group, which establishes the technologies that will most impact the CPA profession.

Before founding the Woodburn Group, Woodburn worked at Ernst & Young and was a controller for Proex Photo Systems. He was involved in the system selection and implementation of Great Plains at Proex. He was the project manager on the first ever implementation of a financial accounting system on Microsoft SQL Server in Minnesota. He has been involved in hundreds of implementations since the mid-1980’s. Woodburn is on the Board of Directors of ATRAC and Vernon Valley Farms and an advisor to several start-up ventures.

Woodburn co-founded and chaired the MNCPA Information Technology Conference. He chaired the first AICPA Electronic Business Conference (May, 1999) and the first AICPA Electronic Business Strategic Forum (July, 2000). He was involved with a project to establish a specification for the digital exchange of financial information (XBRL, see www.XBRL.org).

Woodburn was also selected as one of five people to participate on an expert review panel for the AICPA E-Business Audit Risk Alert. Frequently, he speaks on electronic business issues affecting business and the CPA community. He was appointed to the Great Plains Electronic Commerce Partner Advisory Board and the Niku Partner Advisory Board. Woodburn has been published in the AICPA’s The CPA Letter. In 1999, Accounting Technology listed Woodburn as one of fifteen “Killer VARs” in the United States and Accounting Today listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in accounting technology in America. Woodburn, a Certified Public Accountant, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and French from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.

John D. Woodburn is the co-editor of the e by Epicor content for the Accounting Software Advisor web site. John is one of the world's leading experts on e by Epicor and it is his responsibility to review all e by Epicor content and offer corrections, opinions, and rebuttals regarding the information and opinions we publish. In other words, John's job is to keep us honest.