On the move: INCPAS celebrates 17th annual CPA Day of Service

October 8, 2021 11:59 AM

Value Reporting Foundation adds eight members to SASB group; Grant Thornton and BDO release annual surveys; and more CPA news.

CALIFORNIA

Armanino, San Ramon, announced the partners and employees of Holtzman Partners, Austin, will join the firm effective Jan. 1, 2022, with Holtzman carrying the Armanino name and adding a second office in Austin for Armanino.

The Value Reporting Foundation, San Francisco, announced eight new members of the SASB Standards Advisory Group: Sotiria Anagnostou, ESG analyst, Federated Hermes, United States; Natasha Bouwan, global sustainability partner, Prosus, Netherlands; Timothy Dudley, independent advisor and board member, U.K.; Steve Lippman, director, ESG engagement, Microsoft, United States; Magdalena Podoska, lead sustainability - targets, governance, reporting, BMW, Germany; Jeannie Renne-Malone, VP global sustainability, VF Corporation, United States; Khris Singh, director, British Columbia government, Canada; and Peter Skovly, head of decarbonisation standards, Maersk, Denmark.

COLORADO

Soukup Bush & Associates, Fort Collins, joined CPAmerica.

FLORIDA

CBIZ MHM's Tampa Bay office

CBIZ MHM announced its Tampa Bay office is moving to a larger office space at 140 Fountain Parkway North, Suite 410, St. Petersburg 33716.

GEORGIA

Brandi Samuel

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Brandi Samuel was named principal at Windham Brannon, Atlanta, becoming the first Black principal at the firm.

ILLINOIS

Grant Thornton, Chicago, released its “State of Work in America” survey, available here.

INDIANA

Kruggel Lawton CPAs and INCPAS past chair Kevin Kruggel volunteer at Feed the Children of Elkhart County

The Indiana CPA Society, Indianapolis, held its 17th annual CPA Day of Service on Sept, 24, when teams from 13 companies completed 16 service projects in the Indiana communities of Avon, Elkhart, Goshen, Indianapolis, Lawrence, Muncie, Munster, South Bend, West Lafayette and Winona Lake.

MICHIGAN

David Milkes

David Milkes was hired as the director of M&A and strategic services in the financial institutions group at Doeren Mayhew, Troy.

MISSOURI

Michelle Brekken

BKD, Springfield, awarded its 2021 PRIDE Awards, the firm’s highest internal honor, to Michelle Brekken, who works on the national office quality control team, as this year’s partner award recipient; and Nickie Redick, an accounting and auditing director, as this year’s employee award recipient. In other firm news, BKD was ranked No. 10 on Modern Healthcare’s annual survey of the largest health care management consulting firms in the country.

NEW JERSEY

Alex Bogopolsky was hired as a managing director in the accounting advisory practice, and Frederick Bara as a managing director in the tax practice, at DLA, Fairfield.

NEW YORK

Yesenia Scheker Izquierdo

Yesenia Scheker Izquierdo was named New York office managing partner and New York metro leader at KPMG, becoming the first woman to lead the Big Four firm’s New York office.

Anchin, New York, was ranked No. 4 on the Society for Human Resources Management’s Best Companies to Work For in New York state on the large companies list. Additionally, the firm was named to Crain's New York Business Best Places to Work in New York City list for the 12th year.

Deloitte, New York, was named to the 2021 World’s Most Attractive Employer rankings by Universum for the 13th consecutive year.

KPMG, New York, announced a $1.5 billion commitment over the next three years to focus on environmental, social and governance issues, training and solutions. (Read the

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Mazars, New York, named John Confrey, Rachel Efthemes, Timothy Evans, Melissa Gonzalez, Benjamin Hutterer, Samuel Pizzichillo and Stephen Saluccio partners and Shiv Venkatraman a principal.

BDO, New York, released its 2021 Fall Board Pulse Survey, available

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Freed Maxick, Buffalo, announced the launch of a new accounting and advisory practice, MAXIS by Freed Maxick, designed to optimize back-office accounting and financial planning and analysis with a technology-driven approach.

NORTH DAKOTA

Megan Awalt

Megan Awalt, Ashley Engel, Jordan Rodgers, Adam Schatz and Anthony Weisser were named to the shareholder group at Brady Martz, Grand Forks.

PENNSYLVANIA

Stacy Weller

Stacy Weller, David Peritz and Kim Vandergrift were admitted to the firm partnership at Herbein + Co., Reading.

RKL, Lancaster, was named one of the Best Places to Work in PA for the fifth consecutive year.

TEXAS

The forensic litigation and valuation group at Whitley Penn, Fort Worth, was named to the Texas Lawyer Best of 2021 list.

Doreen Griffith, office managing partner at Grant Thornton, Dallas, was named community volunteer chair of the 2021-22 Dallas Go Red for Women Movement for the American Heart Association.

VIRGINIA

Mitchell Wiggins hired, in the Richmond office: Emily Knerr as a tax senior, Brenda Kontinopoulos as an administrative assistant in the tax and audit departments, and Jacob Lane as a staff accountant; and in the Petersburg office: Jeri Forrest, Carrie Godfrey and Michelle Vess as accounting associates.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Barbara Klepper was hired as a partner in the tax practice group, within the corporate and capital markets department, at Brown Rudnick.