People on the move: Richard Kopelman re-elected Aprio MP

January 11, 2019 12:00 PM

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Berdon admits six to partnership and promotes seven to principal; Akin Gump adds a partner in the white collar defense and government investigations practice; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

CALIFORNIA

Armanino, San Ramon, promoted seven to partner: in consulting and the San Francisco Bay Area, Carolyn Bremer, Ryan Prindiville and Scott Schwartz; in tax, Darice Chan in San Francisco and Jonathan March in Dallas; in audit, Matt Gard in San Ramon; and in business management, Chris Mays in Los Angeles.

FLORIDA

Michael Miller and Beth Varhalla were elected shareholders at Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund. Varhalla joined the firm in 1987 and Miller in 2008.

GEORGIA

Richard Kopelman was re-elected managing partner at Aprio, Atlanta, where he has held the position since 2012, for a three-year term. Additionally, Aprio re-elected to its executive committee: Yelena Epova, partner-in-charge of international services; Michael Levy, partner-in-charge of transaction advisory services; and Alan Vaughn, partner-in-charge of real estate & construction. The firm admitted several new partners: Jessica Hussain, retail, franchise & hospitality; Michael Lange, manufacturing & distribution; Thomas Prevatt, professional services; Thomas Scott, technology & blockchain; and Jagruti Solanki, technology & blockchain. Aprio named to director: Julie Chesebro and Shay Eubanks in tax and Cheryl Leydon in global mobility services.

Clay Huffman (pictured), a senior manager at Frazier & Deeter, Atlanta, has been elected by the members of the Georgia State Board of Accountancy as its new chairman. Huffman was appointed to the board in October 2016 and previously served as vice chair.

ILLINOIS

Philip Katzberg was promoted to principal and Carol Schubert was promoted to supervisor and SALT specialist at Bronswick Benjamin, Buffalo Grove.

INDIANA

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Randy Hooper (pictured) and Stephen Royster were named partners at Katz, Sapper & Miller, Indianapolis.

MAINE

Berry Dunn, Portland, announced several hires. In the administrative group, the firm hired: Jeremy Newton Davenport as a systems administrator, Pamela Juergens as a receptionist, and Becky Morton as an administrative assistant; in the audit and accounting group: Menglu Cai as a senior; in the consulting group: Cindy Belcher, Kirsten Bickford, Rachel Moss Capper, Michele Addison Mosher and Michelle Unterschutz as senior consultants, Melanie Boothe, Jessica Dill, Annie Messinger, Danni Glo Ricks and Courtney Rombow as staff consultants, Yang Ji as a manager, and Molly Young as a business development specialist; and in the tax group: Benjamin Chase and Michael Pappavasiliou as tax specialists, and Michael Mastroianni as a senior manager.

MARYLAND

Chad Seifert was promoted to shareholder at KatzAbosch, Timonium, where he has worked since 2006, most recently as a principal.

MASSACHUSETTS

Kim O’Connor was named office managing partner in Boston at Grant Thornton, where she has worked since 2004 and serves as an assurance partner.

MICHIGAN

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Alex Schaeffer was promoted to partner in the audit and assurance services practice at Kruggel Lawton, St. Joseph.

NEW JERSEY

Hubert Klein (pictured), a partner at EisnerAmper, was named leader of the firm’s New Jersey forensics, litigation and valuation services group.

Sax, Clifton, announced five promotions to partner: Megan Sartor, Stephen Ehrenberg, William Happe, Melissa O'Shea and Jason Borofsky.

NEW YORK

The Bonadio Group promoted five to partner (pictured). The firm promoted, in the Rochester office: Jamie Crosley, on the small business advisory team; Aimee Jozic, on the health care tax-exempt team; and Adam Thaine, on the tax team; in the East Aurora office, Tom Landers on the small business advisory team; and in Syracuse, Wendy Riccelli on the tax team.

Mary Beth Vetter and Tammy Daitch were promoted to principal at Janover, New York.

Susan Teicher, partner-in-charge of the private client group in the New York regional offices of Baker Tilly, was voted into the board of directors of Women in Need, an organization serving homeless women and their children in New York City.

Douglas Stark was admitted as a partner in the tax department at Insero & Co. CPAs, Rochester.

OHIO

Bober Markey Fedorovich, Akron, announced a number of promotions and new hires: Jennifer Martin (pictured) was promoted to manager, transaction advisory services, and Mary Ramnytz to senior accountant, tax services; Christopher Johnson was hired as a senior accountant, assurance and advisory services, and Kelly Harrington as a staff accountant, assurance and advisory services.

Berdon, New York, admitted six to the partnership and advanced seven to principal. Admitted to the partnership were, in audit: Marcy Greenfield, Angela Katehis, Smit Shah and Jon Scalzitti; and in tax: Thea Kruger and Sanford Stolar. The new principals are, in audit: Matthew Doty, Anthony Fernandes, Kimin Fox, Anthony Graci and Christopher Imperiale; and in tax: Evan Fox and Merrick Shukan.

PENNSYLVANIA

Ryan Hurst and Ruthann Woll (pictured) were admitted to the partnership at RKL, Wyomissing.

SEK, York, promoted three staff members to manager: William Souders, who works closely with nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit entities in the Hagerstown office; Daryl Staley in the accounting, consulting and tax services department; and Evan Wabrick in the tax department, who also assists in accounting services.

Christopher Ittner and Jeremy Michels, both professors of accountancy at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, received the 2019 Greatest Potential Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award from the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. (Read the

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John Evans, alumni professor of accounting and business administration at the University of Pittsburgh, was named the recipient of the 2019 AAA Lifetime Contribution Award by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. (Read the

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TENNESSEE

Geoffrey Stewart (pictured) was promoted to managing member and Adam McDowell to member at WSW CPAs, Nashville.

TEXAS

Jonathan Rittenhouse, an audit manager at Whitley Penn, was named to the Leadership Fort Worth Leading Edge Class of 2019, giving emerging leaders the opportunity to strengthen leadership practices and their connections with community leaders.

VIRGINIA

Christopher Budd (pictured) was hired as a tax manager, and former interns Andrew Jones and Brendon Maturey were hired as staff accountants, at Mitchell Wiggins, Richmond.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Claudius Modesti, former director of enforcement at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, was appointed partner in the white collar defense and government investigations practice at law firm Akin Gump.