People: Ed Usalis, AM, CVA, has joined the business valuation practice at BuckheadFMV, an Atlanta firm that specializes in healthcare valuation and consulting; he has over 25 years of experience providing business valuation, litigation support consulting, and financial advisory services, and he has prepared business valuations for federal gift and estate tax returns, estate planning, employee stock ownership plans, financial reporting, and mergers and acquisitions … Yuhi Kamimura has joined Prairie Capital Advisors Inc., a corporate advisory and investment banking firm, as director; he will be part of the firm’s Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., office and will focus on advising middle-market companies, shareholders, and trustees on employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) transactions, fairness opinions, leveraged buyouts, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic advisory engagements … Lori A. Roth, CPA/ABV, CFF, global managing partner at Prager Metis, has been named to the Schneps Media Power Women of Manhattan List; she is based in Basking Ridge, N.J., and oversees all of the day-to-day operations for the entire firm and provides guidance and oversight to each of the firm’s office managing partners and service line leaders.
Firms: Los Angeles-based Marshall & Stevens, an independent valuation and dispute consulting firm, has been on a recent buying spree, acquiring Value Consulting Group (headquartered outside Minneapolis), and two Salt Lake City firms, Lone Peak Valuation Group and Rocky Mountain Advisory … New York City-based Marcum’s technology unit has released its AskMarcum.ai tool to outside users; the AI tool began as an internal initiative to advance the firm’s operational efficiency, but it sparked interest from other organizations looking to optimize workflows and make smarter decisions. Marcum recently used the tool to build Visual Basic code for Excel to perform data analysis and automation rapidly with a complex Excel workbook for a client deliverable … New York City-based CohnReznick has launched a digital advisory practice.
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