People News: Feb. 27, 2015

ALABAMA

Anglin Reichmann Snellgrove & Armstrong has named Ryan Campbell, Scott Hand, Jeremy Mosteller, and Brandon Smith as new partners at the firm. … Maddox Casey, who is a member of Warren Averett’s Healthcare Division, was named one of Birmingham Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, Class of 2015. Casey was profiled in Birmingham Business Journal’s Feb. 12 issue.

CALIFORNIA

Dignity Health, St. Bernardine Medical Center’s parent company, and the hospital’s Community Board has appointed Darryl VandenBosch, as St. Bernardine’s new president. Steven Barron, the hospital’s president for the past 15 years, has phased out of that role to focus full attention on his responsibilities as Dignity Health senior vice president of operations for the company’s six Southern California hospitals. VandenBosch is a certified public accountant with over 25 years experience in health care finance. … Hemming Morse has promoted four women in its Forensic and Financial Consulting Services Group to managers: Megan Cafferkey, Shannon McKinnon, Julie Oleinikova and Tatyana Shtyrkova. … California Governor Edmund G. Brown recently appointed Golden Gate University Professor and alumna Kathleen K. Wright to the California Board of Accountancy, a branch of the state’s Department of Consumer Affairs. … NSBN LLP, CPAs & Business Consultants in Beverly Hills, promoted Joyce Fang, Kalina Grayson and Randal Nachenberg to managers. … Grant Thornton LLP is continuing the expansion of its Forensic and Valuation Services practice. Ron Durkin will serve as managing director, Brian Lopez as director, Anthony Bohorquez as senior manager, Kanzaz Phuong Nguyen as manager and Wan Laam Tse as manager. … AKT has named five new partners, Tracy Allen, Amy Fenerty, Carrie Sowders and Jaime Stimpson for the Oregon offices, and Andy Maffia for the San Diego office. … Mayer Hoffman McCann has named James Comito as director of professional standards at its San Diego office. Comito takes on this role as Ernest Baugh transitions into retirement. …. Natasha Rudnitsky was promoted to a manager in the tax department of Gumbiner Savett Inc and Joanna Lee is now a manager in the firm’s audit and accounting department.

CONNECTICUT

The Board of Trustees of Financial Accounting Foundation appointed Michael Granof EY Distinguished Centennial Professor in the McCombs School of Business and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, to a second term as a member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. His term is effective from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2020.

FLORIDA

Amanda Connolly, Tyler Gubbrud and Veronica Sanchez have joined the audit department of Myers, Brettholtz & Co. Ariel De Cardenas and Blake Weeks joined the firm as auditors, and Ayla Zeigler joined the firm as a bookkeeper. … Rebecca Stangl has joined CBIZ MHM as a bookkeeper at the Tampa Bay office.

GEORGIA

Moore Colson has hired Chad Creasman, as a lender services associate and Katherine Gleaton as a tax associate.

HONG KONG

Stephan Leung has joined PrimeGlobal as chief regional officer for the Asia Pacific & Oceania region.

ILLINOIS

Richard Tworek has joined Horwich Coleman Levin as director in the firm’s tax and business consulting division. … Sikich LLP has named Chris Bucolo as the senior manager of partner relations for the security and compliance practice. … Brad Slattery has joined transfer pricing practice of PwC US and is based in Chicago. Slattery was formerly a tax partner with PwC Singapore, responsible for advising US and European MNCs on regional supply chain structures, and has more than 13 years of experience in transfer pricing and value chain transformation. Prior to Singapore, Slattery was with PwC Australia and PwC US in New York. Slattery has advised companies across a range of industries with a primary focus on retail and consumer goods, and industrial products. He holds a Masters of Law, Intellectual Property and a Bachelors of Economics and Bachelor of Management. ... Chris Bucolo has been named senior manager of partner relations for the security and compliance practice at Sikich LLP.

INDIANA

Carla Brock has joined Blue & Co. as an accounting specialist in its Bloomington office. David Feinberg was hired as chief financial officer in the firm’s Carmel office. Jacqueline Smith was hired as an AR and collections specialist and Patricia Dunn was hired as a manager in the firm. In the Indianapolis office, the firm hired Allen Still and Matthew Groff as managers, Abby McDonoughas a staff accountant, Nicole Cameron as an inpatient coding consultant and Angela Babb as a manager physician coding consultant. … Mike Nickell has joined Sponsel CPA Group as a staff accountant in the tax services department.

KANSAS

Mark Winiarski has been promoted to shareholder at Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. (MHM) in Kansas. Winiarski joined CBIZ & MHM in 2005. He has focused his career on performing and managing audits for organizations in a variety of industries including manufacturing, distribution, services and technology.

KENTUCKY

Louis T. Roth has hired Michelle Cronen as senior accountant, Kendra Cunningham as an assistant bookkeeper, Michael Gant as a staff accountant, and Jeffrey Wilhite as a senior accountant. … Megan Smiddie and Kara Vass have joined Blue & Co. as an administrative assistant in the firm’s Lexington office. Sarah Fraim joined the firm as a staff accountant. Michael Wade joined the firm as principal, John Britt as senior manager and Priscilla Howell, Angelica Williams, Emily Labertew and Hannah Carroll as staff accountants.

MASSACHUSETTS

Zachary Payne has joined G.T. Reilly & Co. as a staff accountant and auditor. Payne graduated from Eastern Nazarene College in May 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Business, Concentration: Accounting. He interned with G.T. Reilly in the summer of 2014, and also previously was employed with State Street Bank.

MICHIGAN

Hannah Thoms has been promoted to principal at Gordon Advisors, Thoms specializes in the areas of estate and trust, tax planning and personal financial planning. Carmen Jaeger, Jill Knop and April Thiel were promoted to senior managers at the firm. … Sherrie Blankenship and Diana Mitchell were promoted to senior managers at Maner Costerisan.

MINNESOTA

Richard Reeves has joined Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, as vice president of strategy for OneSumX®.

MISSOURI

Bill Gogel has been promoted to IT Audit Manager in the Advisory Services practice at Brown Smith Wallace. Todd Goldenhersh recently rejoined Brown Smith Wallace as a manager in the Insurance Advisory Services practice. … Brandon Loeschner, a partner at RubinBrown, was named one of the St. Louis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40.

NEW JERSEY

New Jersey Theatre Alliance elected Laura Hay to the Alliance’s Board of Trustees. Hay is a principal in KPMG’s Insurance Practice, serving as the Americas Sector Leader for Insurance in the firm’s New York headquarters. She is also a member of KPMG’s Board of Directors and a member of the KPMG Foundation Board, elected in 2011 after joining KPMG in 1993.

NEW YORK

Charles Scarallo has joined Markowitz, Fenelon & Bank in its Riverhead office as a member of their estate and trusts team. … RSSM’s David VanHerwynen has received the Accredited in Business Valuation credential. As an ABV credential holder, VanHerwynen will differentiate himself by going beyond the core service of reaching a conclusion of value and creating value for clients through the strategic application of this analysis. … CohnReznick has named Michelle Fleishman a principal and General Counsel for the firm. … O’Connor Davies has appointed David Gannaway as the firm’s newest principal. … Punit Renjen, currently Deloitte U.S. member firm Chairman of the Board, has been selected as Deloitte Global’s new chief executive officer. Renjen will assume the new role on 1 June 2015, the start of Deloitte Global’s new fiscal year. … Roger Upton has published his first eBook, Tangible Property Regulations Survival Kit: A How To Manual. In it, he shares a concise breakdown of the Tangible Property Regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Service. … Joseph Giampapa and Ryszard (Richard) Jania were promoted to partners at Marks Paneth. … Whitman Business Advisors has recruited Phyllis Eisenberg to help lead its mergers-and-acquisitions, talent, practice management and training services business lines.

NORTH CAROLINA

Blackman & Sloop has hired Melissa Carrubba as a tax associate and Scott Hartman as a senior tax manager.

NORTH DAKOTA

Eide Bailly’s Board of Directors has elected Kevin Doyle as chair and Scott Kost as vice chair for 2015.

OHIO

Jacob Wethington has joined Blue & Co. as a staff accountant in the firm’s Columbus office. Justin Porter joined the firm as an IT Support Specialist. … Corrigan Krause has hired Michael Josler, Catherine Calabrese, and Michelle Kendall to join the firm’s Tax, Assurance Services, and Bookkeeping departments, respectively. … Rea & Associates has tapped Heather McNichols to fill its Accounting Service Line Leader position, which was recently created to further enhance the firm’s existing accounting and payroll services by ensuring that every office and their team members are well versed on a range of constantly evolving topics.

OREGON

Doug Fettig has joined AKT as a business advisor with the firm’s Portland office. Rodd Booth has joined AKT as an audit manager. Ryan Bourque has joined the firm as a senior manager in Growth Services, based in the firm’s Carlsbad office. David Strom has joined the firm as the Director of Client Services, based in the Carlsbad office.

PENNSYLVANIA

Stephen Zanardelli has been promoted from vice president to senior vice president and shareholder at S.R. Snodgrass. John Brooks has been named vice president at the firm. … Smith Elliott Kearns & Co.'s Kimberly Wines has been awarded the SHRM Senior Certified Professional certification by the Society for Human Resource Management. … MDG has hired Danielle Bitto as a senior accountant. The firm also hired Bonnie Longhitano, who will work primarily with commercial companies, governmental entities and not-for-profit organizations. Ben Shrager also joins the firm as a staff accountant. …  Julie Gurney has joined Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP as a manager in the tax services group.

TEXAS

Erick Cutler and Angela Walters were promoted to equity partners at Goldin Peiser & Peiser.

VIRGINIA

Timothy Ross has joined CohnReznick LLP as a partner located in the Tysons Corner office. He will play a leadership role for corporate tax in the firm’s Mid-Atlantic region. … Cid Hickman has joined Yount, Hyde & Barbour as a banking principal. … Peter Viksnins joins Grant Thornton LLP's Forensic, Investigative and Dispute Services practice from PwC LLP. He has nearly 20 years of forensic accounting experience assisting clients in a variety of industries with a wide range of complex corruption issues. He also serves as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University, teaching a master's level course in fraud examination and forensic accounting. Viksnins will be based in the firm's McLean, Va. office. Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP has named 32-year Office of the Comptroller of the Currency veteran John Wagner, as a managing director in its anti-money laundering and sanctions consulting practice in McLean, Va.

WASHINGTON D.C.

Yolimar Martinez-Nadal has joined Cherry Bekaert as a tax partner.

 

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