ARIZONA
Andrew Baker has been promoted to assurance manager at Lohman Company PLLC.
CALIFORNIA
David Keum and Matt Woodard were promoted to senior audit manager at JLK Rosenberger LLP in Irvine, Calif. Kevin Lee and Paula Lomer moved up to audit seniors at the firm and Tamar Sadorian to a tax senior. Kimberly Sendowsky has joined HMWC CPAs & Business Advisors as a tax manager in Tustin, Calif.
CONNECTICUT
David Sundstrom, a Sonoma County auditor-controller and treasurer-tax collector, will serve a second term as a member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
GEORGIA
Adam Bateman was promoted to senior manager in the tax practice of Moore Colson. Jon Powell was promoted to senior manager in the firm’s Business Assurance Practice where he will work on the Risk Advisory & Compliance Services side. Marissa Nash, Christina Quinones and Sydney Trew were promoted to managers in the tax practice. Jake Patton joined the firm as a tax associate. Hobart Kwon joined the firm as a business assurance senior associate. Herbert Monford joined the firm’s IT audit practice as a business assurance senior associate. Mandy Yau has joined the firm as a tax associate. Isaiah Gresham joined the firm as an associate. Todd Burks has joined Porter Keadle Moore as a loan review specialist.
ILLINOIS
Dan Karnatz, who is a member of the Business Valuation & Transition Planning team at Porte Brown, has earned the designation of Certified Valuation Analyst.
MISSOURI
AI Jones has joined Mueller Prost as a health care consulting manager. Aisha White has joined RubinBrown as a manager in its State and Local Tax Services Group. White will provide state and local tax compliance, planning and consulting services for clients in a variety of industries. White, who is a graduate of Tennessee State University, serves as a board member and treasurer for the Reid Scholarship Foundation, and is also a co-chair of the education committee for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Amanda Kumma-Reeves has been promoted to manager at MarkNelson in Kansas City. Gerald Ostapko, Michael Herber and Malissa Sartain have been promoted to supervisors. Dan VanDyke, Maggie Bates, Tyler Jessup, Becca Martin and Alexis Cannon were promoted to senior staff accountants.
NEW JERSEY
Richard Bloom has joined WeiserMazars LLP as partner in the firm’s Edison office where he will work in the Private Client Services and Tax Practices.
NEW YORK
Scott Korman has joined the advisory board at The CFO Squad. Korman is a private equity investor and turnaround specialist, as well as founder and president of the investment and advisory firm, Nashone Inc. Ilene Mak and Candace Quinn has joined WeiserMazars LLP as partners in the New York Tax office. Kathi Metter has been named director of learning and education at the global tax and business advisory firm, WTP Advisors. Mettler is also an assistant professor of the practice teaching at Fairfield University, and formerly led PwC’s international tax learning and education program. Kevin Goldstein has joined Rothstein Kass as a director in the Business Advisory Services practice in its New York City office. Goldstein will advise clients, including hedge funds, funds of funds, mutual funds, private equity managers, broker-dealers, RIAs and family offices, on matters such as business strategy, new product development, infrastructure, technology assessments and more.
OHIO
Matt Kramer has been named managing partner of KPMG's Columbus office. Kramer will be responsible for the strategic direction and growth of the 150 person office. Kramer has led KPMG's Columbus practice for the last 11 years. He joined the Columbus office in 1993 and was named a partner in 2004. Kramer succeeds Philip Smith, who will be assuming a national market development leadership position with the firm.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Joie More´ has joined A.T. Locke as a financial analyst in its Greenville, S.C. office.
TEXAS
Christopher Monk and Samir Datt have been promoted to managing directors at the Houston-based global consulting firm, Protiviti. Keith Barger has been hired as managing director in the Houston office of BDO Consulting, where he will work in the Forensics Technology Services Practice. Prior to joining BDO, Barger was a director in the Forensic practice for a Big Four accounting firm and also held Special Agent and Digital Forensics and E-Discovery positions at the Department of Treasury and Department of Justice.
TENNESSEE
Bill Acuff, director of Forensic Accounting and Internal Audit Services at Decosimo and Daniel Barber an assurance supervisor at the firm, have earned the Certified Internal Auditor designation awarded by The Institute of Internal Auditors.
WASHINGTON
Jennifer Becker Harris, a senior manager with Clark Nuber PS, recently became a member of the Planned Giving Advisory Committee for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
WASHINGTON D.C.
David Kirk, former tax attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, has joined Ernst & Young LLP’s Washington, DC office as an executive director in the personal financial services practice. While at the IRS, Kirk was one of the principal authors of the net investment income tax regulations under Section 1411 of the Internal Revenue Code and also with respect to guidance addressing S corporation issues. Michael Ramos has joined the training and professional development firm 20-20 Services LLC, as president.
