Career moves

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.

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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.

KPMG LLP has appointed new executives to head its tax and audit practices in the U.S.

Jonathan Judge, president and chief executive at payroll and benefits outsourcing provider Paychex Inc., said he will leave the Rochester, N.Y.-based company effective July 31.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has named Marilyn Jentzen as the new vice president of sales and marketing of ONESOURCE Property Tax.

Accounting and consulting firm Rehmann has closed its acquisition of Veritas Global, a firm that provides corporate investigative services and business intelligence.

Shane Garbutt, a former inspections leader of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, has joined MaloneBailey as an audit partner.

WithumSmith+Brown has promoted four senior managers to partner level, effective July 1.

H&R Block’s board has appointed Alan M. Bennett as its new president and CEO after Russ Smyth resigned to become CEO of a “large private company headquartered in his hometown of Chicago,” according to Block.

In a move to accelerate its value-added reseller and CPA channel initiatives, cloud accounting provider Intacct has hired channel veteran Taylor Macdonald as its new vice president of channels.