Career moves

Financial Accounting Standards Board Chairman Robert Herz plans to retire after more than eight years of leading the board, which will now increase in size to seven members.

Walter Timoshenko has been named chief operating officer at accounting and consulting firm Nussbaum Yates Berg Klein & Wolpow LLP.

Rothstein Kass has appointed Camille Asaro, Frank Attalla, Jeff Kollin and Navin Sethi as principals at the international professional services firm.

Russell W. Hinton of Atlanta and Peter Hughes of Orange County, Calif., are the 2010 recipients of the American Institute of CPAs’ Outstanding CPA in Government Award.

Alabama

Green Hasson & Janks has hired two new directors as part of the firm’s strategic growth initiatives.

Stephen C. Van Arsdell has been named chairman and CEO of Deloitte LLP’s accounting, auditing, capital markets and risk advisory subsidiary Deloitte & Touche LLP.

ParenteBeard partner David Duffus has been appointed to the board of directors of the nonprofit group Pittsburgh Cares.

The Institute of Management Accountants has named accounting professor Sandra Richtermeyer as the chair of its board of directors for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

D. Scott Moore, director of marketing and business development at Dixon Hughes, was recently elected 2010-2011 president of the Association for Accounting Marketing.

Scott Brubaker was recently hired as principal at the professional services firm of UHY Advisors in the business development area of the firm’s Sports and Entertainment Practice with the goal of engaging professional sports organizations and college athletic departments in a variety of service offerings, including vendor and construction audits, internal audits and process reviews.

McConnell & Jones LLP, one of the largest African-American owned and operated CPA firms in the nation, has added Knoel Kambak as the audit supervisor to the firm’s Dallas/Fort Worth team.

Skoda Minotti has named Steven H. Gross as partner, with primary responsibility for managing and overseeing all small business clients.

Arnold Schilder has been re-appointed to chair the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board from 2012 to 2014.

Horne LLP has appointed Katherine Watts as the new partner-in-charge of the firm’s health care services unit.

Robert Paz has been named managing director of New Jersey accounting firm Sax Macy Fromm & Co.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has added two new business units, Business Compliance & Knowledge Solutions and Workflow & Service Solutions, led by Mark Schlageter and Brian Peccarelli, respectively, as the units’ new presidents.

Arizona

The Financial Accounting Foundation has appointed Mark Schroeder, a recently retired senior partner at Deloitte & Touche, to a new position as post-implementation review leader of accounting standards.

Haskell & White has promoted three managers from within the organization, further strengthening the firm’s tax and audit and business advisory teams.