People: Jamie Burress was hired as a managing director in the forensic, litigation, and valuation group at Whitley Penn (Houston) … Haley Gribler has joined LBMC (Nashville) as a staff analyst in the firm’s litigation valuation division … Members of Moore Stephens North America (Minneapolis) voted three new members to join the board of the accounting network: Bruce Zicari, incoming managing partner at The Bonadio Group; Patrick Fuelling, shareholder at Doeren Mayhew & Co.; and Dan Natale, managing partner at Segal.

Firms: Two Schenectady, N.Y., accounting firms have merged: Watson Peterson & Co. CPAs and Colleen Campoli CPA; the combined firm will operate as Peterson Campoli & Associates CPAs … Murray Wamsley & Schrader of Lexington Park, Md., merged with Annapolis, Md.-based HeimLantz CPAs and Advisors effective January 1; the MWS team will be HeimLantz’s third office (the other is in Alexandria, Va.) … SobelCo (Livingston, N.J.) merged with Weber, Shapiro & Co. (Woodcliff Lake, N.J.) effective January 1; this will be the third office for SobelCo (the other is in Paoli, Pa.) … Fort Wright, Ky.-based VonLehman CPA & Advisory Firm moved its Indianapolis office to a new location in the city, allowing for expansion; its other office is in Cincinnati … Dallas-based Fred J. Bastie & Associates joined San Ramon, Calif.-based Armanino LLP effective January 1; Bastie’s specialties include estate/gift tax and real estate … Dunlap & Associates of New Britain Township (Pennsylvania) and Seitz, Leatherman & Kolb of Montgomery Township have joined to form DunlapSLK; the combined firm will have nine shareholders and 47 staff members … As of January 1, Marcum LLP has merged with Silverman Kendall LLC (Horsham, Pa.), a firm specializing in manufacturing companies and professional service organizations, with a niche in the commercial printing industry … Two Nashville-based firms, Puryear, Hamilton, Hausman & Wood PLC and McKerley & Noonan PC, merged effective January 1; the firms will operate as Puryear & Noonan CPAs and will have 47 total employees … Bradshaw, Gordon & Clinkscales LLC (Greenville, S.C.) has joined the BDO Alliance USA, a nationwide association of independently owned local and regional accounting, consulting, and service firms … Bedford, N.H.-based Howe, Riley & Howe has merged with Milwaukee-based Wipfli, which adds 50 associates, including six partners; the combined firm will have more than 2,200 associates and 47 office locations across the United States and India … Naperville, Ill.-based Sikich has expanded its presence in Milwaukee with the addition of Mick Goossen, Bill Nortman, Tammy Lindvig, Steve Grunewald, Rebecca Giombi, and their tax practice … BPM LLP increased its geographic footprint in the Central Valley to Stockton, Calif., with the combination of Croce & Co., a 22-employee firm noted for its agriculture and consumer manufacturing practice … Plante Moran, based in Southfield, Mich., has acquired Planning Perspectives Inc., a research firm in Birmingham, Mich., that studies relations between automobile makers and their suppliers.