Career moves

RSM McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen have named four new leaders for various industries.

Amanda Meko has been named director of the Audit and Other Assurance Services Group at Greenwalt CPAs.

Ernst & Young has appointed a former Spanish government minister, Juan Costa Climent, as its global leader for climate change and sustainability services.

Financial Planning, the leading publication and online resource for independent financial advisors, hosted its inaugural Influencer Awards Ceremony during the FPA Conference in Denver.

XBRL US has appointed Campbell Pryde as its new president and CEO.

Paychex, a provider of payroll, human resources and benefits outsourcing services for the small and midsized business markets, elevated company veteran Neil Rohrer to the post of vice president of core payroll services in the Eastern U.S.

Economist Arthur Laffer, the inventor of the Laffer Curve, has been engaged as an economic advisor and consultant by wealth management firm 1st Global.

Creighton University accounting and law professor Thomas J. Purcell III received the American Institute of CPAs’ 2010 Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award, the highest award given by the accounting profession in the area of taxation.

After nearly three years as director of partner programs with ERP software maker Deltek Inc., Peyton Burch has left to join cloud-based accounting and financial management solutions provider Intacct Inc. as senior channel executive.

Grant Thornton has appointed Stephen Lukens of IBM as its new advisory services leader.

For years, women in public accounting have faced many challenges in reaching high-ranking leadership positions — primarily because they were forced to choose between firm and family at a time when partner status came within reach.

Florida

Brett Siegfried has joined Weaver as a partner in assurance services in the firm’s San Antonio office, and the firm also added industry practice leaders in several of its other Texas offices.

CPA and consulting firm Jackson Thornton has promoted two accountants in its Montgomery, Ala., headquarters and created a new marketing position there.

Mark Ernst, the former chairman and CEO of H&R Block who went on to become deputy commissioner for operations support at the Internal Revenue Service, will be leaving the IRS later this year, according to an announcement Thursday by IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman.

The largest Microsoft Dynamics reseller in the country, and one of the biggest in the world, is losing its long-time leader as Tectura Corp. founder, president and chief executive Terry Petrzelka will be retiring and leaving the company at the end of this year.

Harold Monk Jr. received the American Institute of CPAs’ 2010 Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Service here during the last day of Fall Meeting of Council.

John T. Pagerly has been elected CFO of Herbein + Company Inc. for a three-year term that started on Oct. 1.

New York State Society of CPAs executive director Joanne S. Barry has been appointed as a member of the AICPA Foundation Board of Trustees.

Dutch financial markets regulator Hans Hoogervorst will succeed Sir David Tweedie as chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board next June when Tweedie retires from the most powerful and influential position in the accounting profession.