philanthropy.org | 990 Resource | FAQ Verify yourself Sign in
CJ
Person · officer / director

Christopher J Kersting

Former CEO & President · Specialty Equipment Market Association

Former CEO & President at Specialty Equipment Market Association. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 4 organizations on the Form 990 record.

This is me
Ambiguous identity This name matches 1 other individual we could not verify as the same person. Each is kept as a separate record below — treat them as distinct people unless an explicit match is confirmed.
Organizations
4
Roles reported
4
Reported compensation
$469K
Others who share this name
1

Who this is

Profile

The filed facts are verified from the IRS filings. The biography is compiled from public web sources and grounded to that filed record.

✓ Verified from filings
●
Reported as Former CEO & President of Specialty Equipment Market Association, based in Diamond Bar, CA.
●
Received $469K in total reported compensation on the most recent Form 990 (Part VII).
●
Also listed as Former President and CEO of Sema Memorial Scholarship Fund, uncompensated.
●
Also listed as Former President and CEO of Performance Racing INC, uncompensated.
Facts extracted directly from each organization's Form 990, Part VII.
Biography In progress
We're building a sourced biography for every person — from filings, news, and public records, citing where each fact comes from. Person-name searches are our single largest source of demand, so this is what we're shipping next.

Affiliations

Organizations

Linked as the same person by IRS Schedule R, a shared officer mailing address, or shared fellow board members.

Specialty Equipment Market Association Former CEO & President · $51.6M revenue · Diamond Bar, CATO PROVIDE MEMBERS WITH A FORUM TO BUY, SELL, AND MARKET PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WHICH DRIVES THE SPECIALTY AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET INDUSTRY.pay $1.1M → $469KFiled FY2023, FY2022 · Source: Form 990, Part VII
$469Kreported comp
Sema Memorial Scholarship Fund Former President and CEO · $547K revenue · Diamond Bar, CATO FOSTER LEADERSHIP IN THE SPECIALTY EQUIPMENT MARKETPLACE AND TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR STUDENTS TO PURSUING CAREERS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE…Filed FY2023, FY2022 · Source: Form 990, Part VII
P
Performance Racing INC Former President and CEO · $4.9M revenue · Diamond Bar, CATO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT AND PROMOTE THE AMERICAN CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE ARISING OUT OF THE INVENTION AND CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT, AND…Filed FY2023, FY2022 · Source: Form 990, Part VII
Specialty Equipment Warrantyalliance Former President & CEO · $3.3M revenue · Diamond Bar, CATHE SEMA DATA COOPERATIVE (SDC) MISSION IS TO SUPPORT THE AFTERMARKET AUTO PRODUCTS INDUSTRY, INCREASE SALES OF SPECIALTY AUTO PARTS AND ACCESSORIES…Filed FY2023, FY2022 · Source: Form 990, Part VII

Disambiguation

Other people named Christopher J Kersting

Different individuals who share this name, separated by IRS Schedule R, mailing address, and shared-board evidence. The 990 carries no person identifier, so some may still be the same person.

C
Christopher J Kersting 1 organization · Park Ridge, NJPascack Historical Society

Network

Serves alongside

Other officers, directors & key employees at this person's organizations, by latest reported compensation.

M
President and CEO · FY2024
$587K
K
VP, Gov't & Legal Affairs · FY2024
$444K
G
Former CFO · FY2024
$386K
R
Vice President, Marketing · FY2024
$342K
T
Vice President, Events · FY2024
$339K
G
Vice President · FY2024
$315K
Z
Councils & Membership · FY2023
$305K
W
Vice President, Sales · FY2024
$291K
D
Legal Affairs (thru 2/13/23) · FY2022
$284K
D
VP, Gov't & Legal Affairs · FY2021
$274K
J
President, Pri (thru 12/14/22) · FY2022
$272K
N
& Membership (thru 9/9/2022) · FY2022
$268K

Network

Recommendations

Written by other verified members of the network — visible once you're a verified person yourself.

Loading…

The names, titles, and financial information shown on this page are reproduced from IRS Form 990 filings, which are public records. More

Philanthropy.org does not alter the content of those filings. All information appears exactly as reported by the filing organization for the tax year shown. A filing can only be corrected by the organization filing an amended return with the IRS; the corrected information appears here at our next update.

We publish only information contained in the public IRS filing, and less than the filing contains. Our pages do not display home addresses, telephone numbers, personal email addresses, or other personal contact information, even where the filing includes them.

Many people share the same name. A name shown on this page reflects only what one organization reported in one IRS filing for one tax year. It should not be interpreted as identifying any other individual with the same or a similar name.

If you are no longer affiliated with the organization, your name will generally stop appearing in future IRS filings once the organization no longer reports you. Pages for tax years in which you were reported remain published because those filings remain part of the public record.

Philanthropy.org does not alter or remove IRS filing records. Removing a page from this website would not remove the underlying IRS filing, which remains publicly available from the IRS and other publishers of the same information.

If you believe the IRS filing itself is inaccurate, contact the filing organization or the IRS directly.

Public data from IRS Form 990 e-file & the Business Master File. Individuals appear here because they were named as an officer, director, or key employee on a nonprofit's Form 990; people are grouped by name plus corroborating evidence (Schedule R, shared address, shared board members). · philanthropy.org