Firms & people on the move: ICPAS honors 2019 Women to Watch

Moribame Matthews entered a collaboration agreement with Andersen Global to become a member firm of the international association.

Christopher Ludwig (pictured) was hired as director of corporate governance at RoseRyan, Newark.

P. Evan Stephens was promoted to partner at Sensiba San Filippo, San Jose, where he has worked since 2012.

Therese Cheevers was appointed partner in the employee benefit services practice, and Ed Fazio to partner in the tax and accounting practice, at Windes, Irvine. Cheevers has worked at the firm since 2007 and Fazio since 2006.

The Illinois CPA Society announced that more than 350 professionals attended the ICPAS’s Women’s Leadership Forum in Chicago, May 10, with Kim Simios, office managing partner at EY Chicago, serving as the event’s keynote speaker. At the event, the ICPAS honored the 2019 Women to Watch Award winners (pictured). Receiving the Experienced Leader Award were: Rebekuh Eley, senior manager at RSM US, and Kristen Fitzpatrick, managing principal at Miller Cooper & Co.; and the Emerging Leader Award: Julia Haried, audit & assurance in-charge at Deloitte & Touche and co-founder of MakerGirl, and Charlene Rhinehart, managing director of CEO Unlimited and founder and editor-in-chief of Wealthy Women Daily. (Read the full story.)

Moore Stephens North America, Chicago, announced the winners of the second annual MSNA Awards program: the 2019 Collaboration Award went to the team at Beene Garter; the 2019 improvement Award was presented to the DMCL team; the 2019 Innovation Award was bestowed to the team at DiCicco, Gulman & Co.

Cendrowski Corporate Advisors, Chicago, has formed an alliance with Chicago-headquartered Ron Braver and Associates, adding to its investigative, anti-fraud, money laundering, internal investigations and asset forfeiture capabilities. Braver and his team represent more than three decades of combined federal law enforcement and private sector consulting experience.