Carol Carden, a principal of Pershing Yoakley & Associates and frequent contributor to BVR, has been inducted into the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame, an honor that recognizes lifetime achievements and contributions that significantly advanced the valuation discipline … Roger Grabowski (Duff & Phelps) and Shannon Pratt (Shannon Pratt Valuations) will be keynote presenters at NACVA’s 2014 Business Valuation and Financial Forensics SuperConference June 17–20 in Las Vegas. John Paglia, Ph.D., who established thePepperdine Private Capital Markets Project, will also be a keynote presenter at the NACVA event. In separate news, Paglia has been appointed interim associate dean with responsibility for fully employed programs at the Graziadio School of Business and Management … Mark L. Winger, formerly with American Appraisal, has joined AccuVal-LiquiTec as a senior manager in the business valuation practice based in Dallas … WTAS promoted Eric Garfield to the team of 14 managing directors in its Los Angeles office. Garfield joined WTAS in 2009 as a director in its valuation services practice … Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP promoted Brad W. Matthews, senior accountant, business valuation services group … Walter E. Loeffler, president of Business Valuation Associates Inc. and BVA Consulting, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Community Bank of Bergen County, N.J. … Eric Klein, partner and managing director of Farber Financial Group, Klein Farber Corporate Finance Inc., Klein Valuation Services Inc., was elected to the board of directors of Liberty Silver Corp. … Sheri Fiske Schultz, a director of business valuation services at Fiske & Co., presented a seminar, “Testimony Skills: Trial Preparation and Communication” at the recent Florida Institute of CPAs Valuation and Litigation Conference.