Career moves

Citrin Cooperman & Company has brought on Arnold J. Hermann as partner and practice leader of the firm’s Entertainment, Media and Family Office Group.

Craig Klein has been elected managing director of CBIZ Tofias.

Accounting firm Grassi & Co. is expanding its presence in New York and New Jersey, with the partners and staff of Soloway, Goldstein, Silverstein & Co. joining the firm in Manhattan.

The International Accounting Standards Board has named two new board members from Germany and South Africa to replace a pair of departing members.

Marks Paneth & Shron LLP has appointed Donald M. May, a valuation specialist with nearly 20 years of experience, as a director in the MP&S Litigation and Corporate Financial Advisory Services Group.

John R. Schnitzer has been elected to serve as the managing member of Smith Elliott Kearns.

Timothy L. Christen, chief executive of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, has been appointed chairman of the American Institute of CPAs’ Major Firms Group.

Linda Stiff, a former IRS acting commissioner, has now joined PricewaterhouseCoopers, along with some other former agency officials.

The American Institute of CPAs has given its 2009 Personal Financial Planning Distinguished Service Award to financial advisor Beth Gamel.

Jim Barrett has been named managing partner of accounting firm Meyers Brothers Kalicka.

SS&G Healthcare Services, the health care services consulting arm of accounting firm SS&G, has promoted four of its professional staff members.

The Internal Revenue Service has appointed tax attorney Michael Danilack as deputy commissioner (international) of the IRS’s Large and Mid-Size Business Division.

Accounting firm MaloneBailey LLP has named David Forrest as audit partner and Stan Raines as tax partner.

Grant Thornton LLP has named its new senior leadership team that will report directly to CEO Stephen Chipman.

Rick Anderson, chairman of accounting firm Moss Adams LLP, has been named chairman of the “blue ribbon” panel that is being set up to address how U.S. accounting standards can best meet the needs of users of private company financial statements.

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Carlo V. di Florio, a former partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Financial Services Regulatory Practice, has been named director of the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations.

At Grant Thornton LLP’s Annual Partners Meeting in November, the partners and principals elected Chicago-based audit partner Jeff Robinson to the firm’s Partnership Board.

BKD LLP CEO Neal Spencer has been re-elected to a second three-year term by the firm’s partners.

Veteran sales and marketing executive Alan Deichler has been appointed as president of CPAmerica International, a large association of CPA firms.