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CALIFORNIA
Nate Collins was hired as a consulting partner to lead the CFO advisory services practice of Armanino, San Ramon.
Joe Muscat was appointed to managing partner in the Redwood Shores office and Ibi Krukrubo to managing partner in the San Jose office of Ernst & Young. Muscat, a former west growth markets leader and an assurance partner who has been with the firm for almost 30 years, succeeds Dianne Glynn, who will resume a full-time client focus serving a growing roster of tech-enabled emerging companies. Krukrubo, an assurance partner, succeeds Kailesh Karavadra, who will transition into a role as the firm’s west growth markets leader with a refined focus on taking companies public and recognizing leaders through the Entrepreneur Of The Year program.
COLORADO
GEORGIA
MAINE
MONTANA
NEW JERSEY
Ralph Albert Thomas, CEO and executive director of the New Jersey Society of CPAs, was selected for the President’s Award for Leadership and Excellence from the National Association of Black Accountants, New York chapter. Thomas will be presented with the award at NABA’s 37th annual awards gala June 1 at Chelsea Piers in New York.
Richard Higgins was hired as a staff accountant at McCarthy & Co., Beachwood.
NEW YORK
Claudio Diaz was named chief human capital officer at Marcum, New York.
Steven Melnik, director of the graduate and undergraduate tax programs at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, is joining the American Institute of CPAs’ Personal Financial Planning Executive committee.
OHIO
PENNSYLVANIA
McCarthy & Co. announced several promotions and new hires in the Lafayette Hill office: Matthew Boland was promoted to director of accounting and assurance; Kyrstin Mackrides was promoted to senior staff accountant; Michael Sexton was hired as director of tax services; and Andrew Racobaldo was hired as a staff accountant.
Carnegie Mellon University’s Finance Club at the H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy hosted Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, American Institute of CPAs chair and Heinz College alumna, along with several accounting professionals and a sold-out crowd of registrants, on campus March 31. Ellison-Taylor was joined by Lisa Myers, president of the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs and PICPA CEO Michael Colgan to speak about accounting industry trends related to technology and women in business. The university also presented Ellison-Taylor with the Heinz Finance Club's Distinguished Alumna award. Ellison-Taylor, global accounting strategy director for Oracle, was also the first African American female chair of the AICPA.
SOUTH CAROLINA
TEXAS
David Grossman, COO and shareholder at GBH CPAs, Houston, was appointed to the Center for Audit Quality’s Smaller Firm Task Force.
William Vespe, recently president from 2009 to 2017, was named owner of BCS ProSoft, San Antonio, taking over for founder and CEO Clark Haley.
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Laurie Dicker was appointed managing director of the U.S. national tax office of Andersen Tax, Washington, D.C.