COLUMBIA —The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (CHE) announced today that Douglas A. Snyder was confirmed by the South Carolina Senate to serve on the CHE Board of Commissioners. 

Commissioner Snyder graduated from The Citadel in 1982 and holds a B.S. in Business Administration. He is a certified public accountant and a certified global management accountant. Throughout his career, he worked across constantly changing, complex organizations and management structures to help leaders make the best decisions based on financial and other related data. Snyder has worked as an audit manager in an international accounting firm, a chief financial officer in a South Carolina state-wide nonprofit organization, and as a business coach in the accounting firm he founded, The Snyder Firm, PA.

Snyder has also held numerous positions on The Citadel Board of Visitors, to include chair, and currently serves as a member emeritus.

"We welcome Commissioner Snyder to the CHE Board of Commissioners and look forward to the perspective he will contribute based on his leadership experience and his broad technical background," said CHE Chair Wes Hayes. "His deep experience as a board of visitors chair at The Citadel, his inspiring entrepreneurship, and his passion for community involvement will allow him to contribute greatly to the advancement of higher education in South Carolina."

Dr. Rusty Monhollon, CHE’s president and executive director, said, “We look forward to leveraging Commissioner Snyder's wide range of experience and strategic leadership across higher education and multiple professional sectors as he joins the CHE.  His insights will help us advocate for higher education initiatives that are relevant to our state and our workforce.”

Snyder has a wide variety of experience on other community and professional boards, to include: 

• Goodwill Industries of Lower South Carolina, Inc., Board of Directors
• Porter-Gaud School, Board of Directors, Treasurer
• American Institute of CPAs, Designated National CPA Ambassador
• South Carolina Association of CPAs, Trustee, Past Trustee Chair
• South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations, Board of Directors, Finance Committee
• Charleston CFO Council, Charter Member
• Leadership South Carolina, Class of 2000

Snyder continues to help individuals and small business clients understand and practice financial leadership to support profitable growth and increase net worth by providing accounting and tax services as a practicing DigitalCPA.