Career moves

John Geraci has joined LitmanGerson Associates as a principal, expanding the firm’s assurance services and employee benefit plan services.

ARIZONA

Sage Software developer and partner SWK Technologies recently added Andrew Nunez and Paul Frydman to its executive team as part of a strategy to increase its presence throughout the Northeast, as well as resell and consult on Sage X3 software.

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.

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.