People: Two new hires at Boulay, a leading Twin Cities accounting and consulting firm: Paul Diegnau and Dan Korsman come on board as business valuation managers; Boulay now has 170 staffers including 33 partners … Ankuracontinues to grow its Chicago office with the addition of John Levitske as a senior managing director, specializing in business valuation and complex financial disputes … Gary P. Taylor of Fort Hill, S.C., is the recipient of The Appraisal Foundation Chair’s Public Service Award, which recognizes individuals who have worked with the organization and have gone above and beyond the call of duty for the benefit of the valuation profession in the United States … Howard M. Rosenis the new worldwide CEO of global accounting association BKR International … Thomas F. Bonadio, managing partner and CEO of The Bonadio Group, is a recipient of the ICON Honors award, which recognizes business leaders over the age of 60 in the greater Rochester, N.Y., area … Ken Haffey, a partner at Skoda Minotti, has earned the Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) designation from the Exit Planning Institute (EPI) … Nene Glenn Gianfala has been promoted to vice president at Chaffe & Associates Inc. of New Orleans … Guido Rooijackers of Sman Business Value (Netherlands) was the recipient of the Business Valuer of the Year award presented at the F&O Merger & Acquisition Annual Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands … Brian Malthouse, president and shareholder of VonLehman CPA & Advisory Firm (Fort Wright, Ky.), is the new chair of the board of CPAmerica International, an association of independent CPA and business advisory firms … Gerald W. Hodgkins, associate director of the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission has left the agency for private practice … The Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland (ICAS) has appointed former PwC partner Bruce Cartwright as its CEO, effective March 23; ICAS represents more than 21,000 Chartered Accountants in over 100 countries.
Firms: Eide Bailly LLP is expanding in Denver by adding Heider, Tanner & Dirks Inc., effective January 15; this adds two partners and six staffers to Eide Bailly’s 261 partners and 1,631 staff … The merger of Charleston, W. Va., area firms Brown Edwards and Gibbons & Kawash adds nine partners and 50 associates to Brown Edwards’ Charleston office … Manhattan, N.Y., firms Farkouh, Furman & Faccio LLP and CPI Associates Inc. will merge … Lurie LLP of Minneapolis is the first Minnesota office that is a member of Moore Stephens North America, a 40-member accounting firm association with 150 offices nationwide … La Crosse, Wis.-based Hawkins Ash CPAs has acquired the tax and audit practice of Thomas Cummings of Rochester, N.Y. … Gorfine, Schiller & Gardyn PA adds John Lyons and his tax practice from Protiviti Inc., a subsidiary of Robert Half International; the deal adds six employees to GSG’s headquarters in Owings Mills, Md. … Rhode Island firms Markarian & Meehan Ltd. and DiSanto, Priest & Co. have merged; the combined offices will be in Warwick and Wakefield.
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