People: Capstone Advisory Group LLC, a national financial advisory services firm, announced the addition of Nathan Klatt as a managing director in its New York City office Valuation Practice … Mark Hanson, a shareholder at Schenck of Wisconsin, has been appointed to the business valuation panel at The Appraisal Foundation, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., that is dedicated to the advancement of professional valuation. Directed by a board of trustees, it is authorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standards and appraiser qualifications … The International Society of Business Analysts (ISBA) in Irving, Texas, announced that Dr. Shannon P. Pratt, CFA, FASA, ARM, ABAR, MCBC, CM&AA, has become a member of the Business Certified Appraiser (BCA) board of advisors. Dr. Pratt is the foremost authority in the field of business valuation and has written numerous books that articulate many of the concepts used in modern business valuation around the world.

Firms: InformationWeek magazine recognized Crowe Horwath LLP as one of the nation’s top 500 innovative business teams that take unconventional approaches in the use of new technology and models to capture business opportunities and solve complex business problems … The Managing Partners' Forum, an independent panel of subject matter experts, has named Grant Thornton “Best Managed International Firm” … WithumSmith+Brown PC is celebrating the firm’s 40th anniversary this month. Incorporated in 1974, WS+B originally started with six employees in a small Milltown, N.J., office; today, it has over 500 staff members in 13 offices across six states.