Career moves

Arkansas

After less than two years at accounting and business solutions giant Sage North America, Business Solutions Division president Jodi Uecker-Rust will depart the company at the end of this week due to “personal reasons.”

The partners of Greenwalt CPAs have selected senior partner Anita W. Sherman as the firm’s next managing partner, effective Jan. 1, 2011.

After less than nine months on the job, SpeedTax executive vice president David Lahey has departed the company.

CPA and business advisory firm RubinBrown has formed a new client niche, Life Sciences Services Group, and appointed Felicia Malter, CPA, as partner-in-charge.

Alabama

Gene Dodaro, who has filled the post of acting comptroller general of the Government Accountability Office for two-and-a-half years, has been nominated by President Obama as the official comptroller general.

Financial Accounting Standards Board technical director Russell G. Golden has been appointed a member of the board, filling one of three vacancies on the newly expanded panel.

Kenneth M. Donohue, inspector general of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has been hired by Reznick Group as a principal in the firm’s government services group.

The National Society of Accountants has elected a new slate of officers, district governors and state directors at its 65th Annual Meeting.

Jon Baron, who has presided over Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting’s Professional Software and Services business for the past five years, has been appointed president of a new Americas Business Unit within the company’s Workflow & Services Solutions group.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed J.W. "Mike" Starr as deputy chief accountant for policy support and market monitoring in the agency's Office of the Chief Accountant.

Alabama

Kelli S. Lewis, a principal in the tax and business services department at CPA firm Stone Carlie & Company, has been certified as an Accredited Estate Planner by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.

PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that Tom Boniface has joined the firm as co-leader of PwC's Indirect Tax practice in New York, focusing on value-added taxes.

Los Angeles-based accounting and business advisory firm RBZ LLP has promoted 11 of its accounting professionals.

Christopher R. Conte, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s associate director of enforcement, who led enforcement actions against Dell, Comverse Technology and other companies over their accounting violations, plans to leave the agency after nearly 18 years.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting, a global provider of tax, accounting and audit products and information, has named Russell Evans as president of its Asia Pacific region, effective August 30.

Mark E. Lund, the Houston audit location leader at the accounting firm Weaver, was recently named executive partner of the Houston office.

Brian J. “BJ” Hoffman and Michael J. Kline, formerly shareholders with Shechtman Marks Devor PC, have joined Citrin Cooperman as partners in the firm’s Philadelphia accounting, tax and business consulting practice.