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 with the PCAOB and SEC’s independence quality control standards.

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