ALABAMA

Anglin Reichmann Armstrong, Huntsville, partnered with AR Business Consulting to launch a new line of human resources consulting and compliance services. 

COLORADO

Lori Davis, market managing principal at Grant Thornton, Denver, was recognized as an Outstanding Women in Business by the Denver Business Journal.

FLORIDA

2024-Key-Award-winners-with-Tom-Watson.jpg
Honorees Adam Smith (left) and Holly Reavis (right) with Forvis Mazars CEO Tom Watson
Forvis Mazars announced the winners of the Key Award, given annually to one partner and one team member who exemplify the firm's cultural DNA, at the 2024 Vision conference in Orlando. The honorees were Adam Smith, an audit partner based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who leads the Education Center of Excellence within the education practice; and Holly Reavis, a director in the health care consulting practice based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

ILLINOIS

Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton, Chicago, named Money Magnets Club, which aims to empower elementary school children and their families with financial education and entrepreneurship skills, to its Purple Paladin program, which helps emerging nonprofit organizations with funding, business advice and volunteer support.

Natalie Kotlyar was elected to an inaugural term as chair of the board of directors at BDO USA, where she has served on the board since November 2020 and was re-elected to a new term this year, succeeding Kelly Johnson. Additionally, Kirstie Tiernan was elected as a new board member and John Marquardt to a second term, while the board also extended the term of Tony Argiz through the remainder of the term of Mark Ellenbogen's vacated board seat, which he is leaving to assume the role of chief operating officer. 

MISSOURI

Percival-Grace-KPM.jpg
Grace Percival
KPM CPAs & Advisors, Springfield, hired as staff accountants: Grace Percival, Colton Thomas, Destiny Louis, Holly Lemon, Eli Fearn and Miguel Preciado. 

Anders CPAs + Advisors, St. Louis, was named Top Workplace by the St. Louis Post Dispatch for the 11th consecutive year, ranking No. 33 in the Midsize Employer category.

NEBRASKA

ConvergenceCoaching, Bellevue, announced its 2023-24 Spring Transformational Leadership Program graduating class: Abby Fletcher, senior manager, Rosen, Sapperstein & Friedlander; Abigail DeLaney, director, operations and talent acquisition, Floyd Advisory; Amy Landry, senior manager, HM&M; Ben Gardner, assurance manager, WellsColeman; Bob Torella, partner, Lumsden McCormick CPA; Brandi Marso, senior tax manager, Brady Martz; Christy Turner, assurance manager, Brown Edwards & Co.; Danny Baer, partner, Floyd Advisory; David Elkins, senior manager, Brown Edwards & Co.; Ian Williams, principal, KBKG; Korab Ferati, Senior Manager, Davis Martindale; Kristyn Giannaccio, tax partner, Weinstein Spira; Lindsay Ard, controller, KerberRose; Mackenzie Sprain, chief customer officer, LattaHarris; Maggie Walker, managing member, Burchell Denson & Morrison; Mark Stack, partner, Lumsden McCormick CPA; Marni Kaufman, senior manager, Floyd Advisory; Mary Hlebechuk, senior manager, Ketel Thorstenson; Mitch Richman, partner, LattaHarris; Ruth Audiss, tax manager, Brady Martz; Ryan Kirtner, senior tax manager, WellsColeman; Ryan Root, principal, Grimbleby Coleman; Sarah Sims, Program Manager, ConvergenceCoaching; Stephanie Taylor, managing director, CCK Strategies; Tetyana Guguchkina, director, KBKG; Vance Glaser, tax partner, LattaHarris; and Yevgeniy Sukhenko, partner, GRF CPAs & Advisors.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Jessie Handforth Kome was hired as a director in the government and public sector advisory practice at CohnReznick.
MORE FROM ACCOUNTING TODAY