People: Brent Sloan, senior director at Alvarez & Marsal Valuation Services LLC in Seattle, and Richard Eichmann, managing director of Forensic and Litigation at FTI Consulting Inc. in San Francisco, were honored with the inaugural "40 Under Forty Award" by NACVA—Consultants’ Training Institute … James Powers will succeed Charles Allen as Crowe Horwath LLP’s CEO effective April 1, 2015.

Firms: As part of Dixon Hughes Goodman’s GIVES initiative, the company recently donated over 430,000 pounds (215 tons) of food to communities in the 11 states it serves.