 Earlier in his career, he was a Certified Public Accountant and audit supervisor for KPMG, and later a chief financial officer for Robert W. Baird & Co. Kruszewski was appointed to serve on the Federal Advisory Council by the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in 2013.He has served on the boards of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Saint Louis University, and the St. Louis Regional Chamber, among other organizations.He won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2007 and was recognized by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans in 2019.