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FAF Names Four New Board Members

Jaclyn Jaeger November 17, 2010

The Financial Accounting Foundation, an independent, private-sector organization responsible for the oversight of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, has elected four new members to its board of trustees. Each of the appointments is for a five-year term that begins in January 2011. Among the...

Aflac Names Chief Accounting Officer

Jaclyn Jaeger November 12, 2010

Aflac Incorporated has appointed June Howard as chief accounting officer, assuming the role from senior vice president, Ralph Rogers, who is retiring. Howard also will continue to serve in her current position as senior vice president of Financial Services and International Financial Reporting Standards at Aflac.Howard joined Aflac in 2009...

Rayonier Elects New Board Member

Jaclyn Jaeger November 01, 2010

Rayonier, an international forest products company, has elected Mark Gaumond to its board of directors, effective immediately.Gaumond retired earlier this year as senior vice chair of markets for Ernst & Young, where he oversaw the assurance, tax, transaction and advisory service lines in the Americas region. Previously, he was the...

Deloitte Names New Partners

Jaclyn Jaeger October 11, 2010

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services has announced the appointment of two new partners to its corporate investigations team, as well as the appointment of a new director to its analytic and forensic technology practice.Larry Kivett, who has been with the firm his entire career, has been promoted to partner in the...

EMRISE Appoints New Chief Accounting Officer

Jaclyn Jaeger September 03, 2010

EMRISE Corporation, a multi-national manufacturer of defense, aerospace and industrial electronic devices and communications equipment, has promoted veteran corporate controller, Brandi Festa, to director of finance and administration and principal accounting officer, effective immediately. Festa, who was also appointed secretary and treasurer, reports directly to Chairman and CEO Carmine Oliva.Festa...

Haskell & White Announces Management Promotions

Jaclyn Jaeger July 19, 2010

Irvine-based Haskell & White, an independently owned accounting, auditing and tax consulting firm, announced three promotions from within the organization, further strengthening the firm’s tax and audit and business advisory teams. Ken Gundersen has been promoted to principal in the firm’s audit and business advisory services department. Gundersen has over...

Grant Thornton Gets New Atlanta Practice Leader

Jaclyn Jaeger July 06, 2010

Johnny Lee has come on board as director and Atlanta Practice Leader of Forensic Technology Services and e-Discovery for Grant Thornton.In his new role, Lee will be responsible for delivering data analytics, computer forensics and electronic discovery in support of investigations and civil litigation. He also will provide advisory services...

CIT Group Appoints Corporate Controller

Jaclyn Jaeger July 06, 2010

CIT Group, a provider of financing to small businesses and middle market companies, has appointed Carol Hayles as senior vice president, corporate controller.Hayles also will serve as the company's principal accounting officer and will be responsible for managing the Accounting department, as well as all SEC and regulatory reporting. She...

New Independent Member on K-V Pharmaceutical Board

Jaclyn Jaeger June 30, 2010

K-V Pharmaceutical Company has appointed Ana Stancic to the company's board of directors as a new independent member. She replaces Terry Hatfield, whose resignation from the board was effective upon Stancic's appointment.Stancic brings to the board extensive knowledge and experience in long- and short-term strategic planning, and the development and...

New Director in PwC Forensic Services Practice

Jaclyn Jaeger June 30, 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced that Worth MacMurray has joined the firm as a director in the Forensic Services practice, which is part of the Firm's Advisory practice. MacMurray will focus on helping global organizations develop policies and processes in support of client objectives to increase revenues and operational effectiveness, lower expenses,...

Pharma Industry Veteran Named PwC Senior Advisor

Jaclyn Jaeger June 17, 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that Lori Queisser, former chief compliance officer at Schering-Plough Corporation and Eli Lilly, is working with PwC's governance, risk, and compliance practice as a senior adviser to the firm’s pharmaceutical and life sciences clients.As senior adviser, Queisser will work with PwC professionals to provide strategic guidance to pharmaceutical,...

Leviton Names Corporate Controller

Jaclyn Jaeger June 11, 2010

Leviton, a provider of electrical wiring devices, data center connectivity solutions, and lighting energy management systems, has appointed Lucy Guilherme to the role of corporate controller for all Leviton operations. In her new position, Guilherme oversees the company's accounting operations.Guilherme joins Leviton with an extensive background in public accounting, auditing,...

Crowe Horwath Hires New Principal

Jaclyn Jaeger June 09, 2010

Crowe Horwath, a public accounting and consulting firm, is expanding its risk consulting practice in the Southeast with the appointment of Rick Warren as principal. Warren, who is based in Crowe’s Atlanta office, has more than 16 years of experience in financial analysis and audit, internal audit, enterprise risk management,...

New Chief Accounting Officer at ABM Industries

Jaclyn Jaeger June 04, 2010

Facility services provider, ABM Industries, has named Dean Chin as senior vice president, corporate controller, and chief accounting officer, effective immediately. He reports to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jim Lusk.Chin joined ABM in 2008 as vice president and assistant corporate controller, where he led the financial reporting,...

Weaver Names Two New Partners

Jaclyn Jaeger May 28, 2010

Weaver, an independent certified public accounting firm, has announced the promotions of Melvin Hunt to audit partner in Assurance Services, and Mary Thomas to international consulting partner in Tax and Strategic Business Services, effective June 1.Hunt, who joined Weaver in 2007, previously served as an audit senior manager in the...

Former DoJ Senior Counselor Joins PwC

Jaclyn Jaeger May 28, 2010

Kimberly Peretti, a former senior counselor with the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, has joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a director in in the firm's U.S. Forensic Technology Solutions practice. Based in the Washington D.C. office, she will help clients respond to cyber attacks and breaches, as...

Crowe Horwath Appoints New Director

Jaclyn Jaeger May 11, 2010

Crowe Horwath, a public accounting and consulting firm, has announced that Bart Kimmel has joined the firm's risk consulting group as director, based in Crowe’s Los Angeles, Calif., office.Kimmel has more than 24 years of experience in enterprise risk management, enterprise risk identification and assessment, information technology audit and advisory...

A. Schulman Makes Management Changes

Jaclyn Jaeger April 16, 2010

A. Schulman, an international supplier of high-performance plastic compounds and resins, has promoted Malia Gelfo, former manager of financial reporting, to assistant corporate controller.In her new role, Gelfo will be responsible for the corporate accounting and financial reporting departments, as well as the integration of acquisitions into the financial consolidation...

Deloitte Appoints New Managing Partner

Jaclyn Jaeger March 26, 2010

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services has appointed Bob Clarke Midwest regional managing partner, based in Chicago. He succeeds John Trinta, who led the Midwest Deloitte FAS practice since 2007.Clarke has 31 years of experience, primarily in the healthcare industry. He also has served as the Midwest regional leader of Deloitte FAS’s...

Duff & Phelps Adds Two Managing Directors

Jaclyn Jaeger March 26, 2010

Duff & Phelps, an independent financial advisory and investment banking firm, has announced the addition of managing directors Michael Braverman and Matthew Medlin to its Dispute and Legal Management Consulting segment. Both professionals join Duff & Phelps from Huron Consulting Group.Braverman joins Duff & Phelps’ New York office as a...

Deloitte Adds Two New Members

Jaclyn Jaeger March 15, 2010

Deloitte Corporate Finance, the FINRA member subsidiary of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, has hired Michael McArthur as a managing director, based in the firm's Los Angeles office.McArthur has more than 15 years of investment banking experience with a special focus on the healthcare industry. Prior to joining Deloitte, McArthur led...

PG&E Names Chief Risk and Audit Officer

Jaclyn Jaeger February 26, 2010

PG&E Corporation and its utility unit, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, announced the election of two new officers and new assignments for key team members within the companies' finance and risk organizations.PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company named Anil Suri as vice president and chief risk and audit...

PwC Adds Director to Forensics Technology Practice

Jaclyn Jaeger February 09, 2010

PricewaterhouseCoopers has hired Edward Gibson, the former chief security adviser for Microsoft LTD in the United Kingdom, as a director in PwC's U.S. Forensics Technology Solutions practice. In this role, he will focus on helping organizations with issues involving investigating economic espionage, complex money laundering, cyber fraud schemes, and intellectual...

Office Depot Names New Board Member

Jaclyn Jaeger January 06, 2010

$14.5 billion Office Depot has appointed Thomas Colligan to its board of directors. He will also serve on the audit committee.Since September 2007, Colligan has been vice dean of the Wharton School's Aresty Institute of Executive Education. Previously, he spent more than 40 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he served in...

Stephen Chipman Named CEO of Grant Thornton

Jaclyn Jaeger January 04, 2010

Stephen Chipman has been named CEO of Grant Thornton, effective as of Jan. 1. He succeeds Edward Nusbaum, who will assume the responsibilities as CEO of Grant Thornton International.Chipman, who was elected to the position in June 2009, most recently served as CEO of Greater China Management Corporation, responsible for...

Former KPMG Partner Leaves for GAVI

Jaclyn Jaeger November 02, 2009

Cees Klumper, a former partner with KPMG Business Advisory Services in the Netherlands and an occasional guest columnist for Compliance Week, has announced he has left the firm to join the GAVI Alliance as its head of internal audit.GAVI is a global health partnership whose members work together to save...

RSM McGladrey Adds New Leader to Risk Team

Jaclyn Jaeger October 08, 2009

Peter Brady has joined accounting firm RSM McGladrey as a managing director and leader of the firm’s risk-management practice in New York.An accomplished senior executive, Brady has over 21 years of experience in risk management, internal audit, and internal controls. Prior to joining McGladrey, he held several leadership positions with...

David Shapiro Rejoins PwC Tax Services Practice

Jaclyn Jaeger September 10, 2009

David Shapiro has rejoined PricewaterhouseCoopers' Washington National Tax Services practice as a principal in its International Tax Services group, in Washington, D.C., the firm announced. Shapiro, who has broad expertise in both international tax planning and the taxation of financial transactions, was formerly an ITS principal in the practice from...

Haskell & White Announces Management Promotions

Jaclyn Jaeger August 21, 2009

Accounting, auditing and tax consulting firm Haskell & White has announced six promotions from within the organization.They are: Jon Huckabay has been promoted to senior manager in the firm’s tax department. He joined the firm in January 2008 after five years with BDO Seidman. Paul Louis has been promoted to senior manager...

Grant Thornton Appoints New Executive Director

Jaclyn Jaeger August 13, 2009

Accounting firm Grant Thornton announced the promotion of Jason Gitstein as executive director, effective as of Aug. 1.In his role as executive director, he will be responsible for administrative oversight of the firm’s development, monitoring, and enforcement of independence quality control policies, tools, databases, and other requirements to facilitate compliance...

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