Career moves

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.

ALABAMA

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.

CALIFORNIA

Former SEC commissioner Harvey Goldschmid has been appointed to succeed one of the retiring trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, the organization that oversees the International Accounting Standards Board.

Texas accounting firm MaloneBailey has named Wesley Middleton as its managing partner to pave the way for market expansion, with founder John Malone taking the role of SEC practice leader.

The Internal Revenue Service has appointed Victor Song as the new chief of its Criminal Investigation division, replacing Eileen Mayer, who is retiring next month.

The Trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, which oversees the International Accounting Standards Board, said they are seeking nominations to identify a successor to IASB Chairman Sir David Tweedie.

Kurt Schacht, the managing director of the CFA Institute's Centre for Financial Market Integrity, is reportedly among the lead contenders to become chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The Financial Planning Association has named Martin Kurtz as its next president.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy has elected Billy M. Atkinson, a Sugarland, Texas-based CPA and PricewaterhouseCoopers audit partner, as its 2009-2010 chairman.