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CALIFORNIA
Rimma Tabakh was named Greater Bay Area local audit practice leader at Grant Thornton, San Francisco, where she will be responsible for driving audit services to clients in the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices.
Mike Dinsdale was hired as the first chief financial officer at Gusto, San Francisco.
Kash Hussain was named a new partner of the accounting and assurance department, based in Los Angeles, of CohnReznick.
FLORIDA
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INDIANA
MARYLAND
MICHIGAN
MISSOURI
NEW JERSEY
James DiGabriele, managing member at DiGabriele, McNulty, Campanella & Co., Fairfield, received the Bright Idea Award for his article, “The Expectation of Differences Among Stakeholders in the Financial Valuation Fitness of Auditors.” The award was given by New Jersey Policy Research Organization Foundation, the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University and a panel of deans from New Jersey universities.
NEW YORK
Julie Petit was elected partner at Mazars USA, New York, where she provides accounting, audit and advisory services to midsized companies, multinational corporations and SEC registrants.
Prager Metis partner Wendy Valentino was honored with the 2017 Long Island Business News’ Top 50 Women Award, a program recognizing Long Island’s top women professionals for business acumen, mentoring and community involvement. In firm affiliate news, Russ Safirstein was named partner and managing director at Prager Metis Technology, Woodbury.