On the move: HCJ hires CAS leader

July 21, 2023 9:00 AM

Centri Business Consulting hosts first Community Collaboration Day; Grant Thornton adds 75 partners; and more news from across the profession.

ARKANSAS

Joyce Rinaldi

Joyce Rinaldi was hired as a partner at HCJ CPAs & Advisors, Little Rock, leading the client accounting services department and serving as the firm's first remote partner.

ILLINOIS

Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton, Chicago, named 75 new partners, principals and managing directors. By service line, audit accounts for the largest number of promotions (40%), followed by tax (28%), advisory (28%), and internal services (4%). The full list is available here.

NEW JERSEY

CLA's Irvine office

CliftonLarsonAllen announced career advancements of professionals across the country, including more than 200 in New Jersey, effective July 1.

NEW YORK

Angel Li

Angel Li was hired as a partner in the tax practice and Scott Sachs as a partner in assurance at CohnReznick, New York.

OHIO

Valene Faulkner

Rick Buchanan

Valene Faulkner was hired as a manager of tax advisory services at Schneider Downs & Co., Columbus.

PENNSYLVANIA

Greggory Whitcomb

Brown Schultz Sheridan & Fritz promoted, in the Camp Hill office: Greggory Whitcomb to manager, Michael Basti to supervisor, Connor Shoop and Margaret Geraci to senior staff accountants; in Hanover, Shawn Manges to senior staff accountant; and in Lancaster, Janie Hess to senior small business accounting services associate.

Centri Business Consulting, Philadelphia, hosted the company's first companywide Community Collaboration Day, with the firm donating 637 hours of time and over $20,000 to local nonprofits across the company's presence in Boston; Denver; New York City; Philadelphia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Tampa, Florida; and Tysons Corner, Virginia.

VIRGINIA

Allan Autry, partner at Johnson Lambert , Vienna, was recognized in Captive International's Forty under 40 list, representing top talent in the captive insurance industry,

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Raymond Hamm will leave the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the PCAOB announced, after nearly 20 years with the Division of Enforcement and Investigations where he served as division deputy director since 2006.

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