Preston Quesenberry

Preston is a Senior Managing Director in the Exempt Organizations group for the KPMG Washington National Tax practice. He has nearly two decades of experience in the nonprofit and tax-exempt space, providing advice on a wide variety of tax and strategic issues in the private sector and serving in multiple capacities at the Internal Revenue Service.

Preston joined KPMG from a large multi-service law firm in Washington D.C. where he served as Counsel to healthcare organizations, public charities, private foundations, social welfare organizations, trade associations, and government entities. His advice covered a wide variety of legal, strategic, and tax issues including qualification for tax-exempt status, public charity status, unrelated business income tax (“UBIT”), excise taxes applicable to private foundations and public charities, charitable contributions, domestic and international grantmaking, joint ventures, lobbying and political activities, and executive compensation.

Prior to entering the private legal sector, Preston served more than seven years in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, most recently as Special Counsel to the Associate Chief Counsel of Tax-Exempt and Government Entities.