People: Scott A. Stringer joined New York City-based Marcum LLP as an Advisory Services partner in the firm’s Chicago office … Lyle Simons has joined Warren Averett, CPAs and Advisors, as a manager in the firm’s Corporate Advisory Services group … Walter Brasch has joined Whitman Business Advisors as a consultant; he was a partner and chief business development officer at New York City-based PKF O’Connor Davies … Alisa Moody has been appointed as the first CEO of Greensboro, N.C.-based Bernard Robinson & Co. LLP … Carl Jenkins has been named global leader for Duff & Phelps’ new Governance, Risk, Investigations and Disputes unit; this new business unit is a result of the firm’s recent acquisition of Kroll.

Firms: EAC Valuations PA of Paoli, Pa., has joined Sobel & Co. of Livingston, N.J., in its valuation practice to create Sobel Valuations LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sobel & Co. …Gumbiner Savett Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., has acquired Katz Fram & Co., also of Santa Monica, effective June 1 … The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) gave New York City-based EisnerAmper the 2017 “When Work Works” Award for exemplary workplace practices … New York City-based Citrin Cooperman has acquired Sharkansky LLP of Brockton, Mass.; the deal adds six partners and more than 25 staff to the firm’s Braintree, Mass., office … Pensacola, Fla.-based Saltmarsh Cleaveland & Gund has become a member of BDO Alliance USA … New York-based Marcum LLP announced that Filomeno & Co. PC of West Hartford, Conn., has been merged into Marcum’s New England region … York, Pa.-based Stambaugh Ness is celebrating its centennial of providing client service.

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