People: Regan Sander joins Valuation Research Corp.’s (VRC) Houston office as managing director and will lead the MLP practice’s valuation of energy-related assets … Linda Trugman was elected international president of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), and Gary Trugman was elected to the Business Valuation Committee of the ASA. Both are with Trugman Valuation Associates (Plantation, Fla.) … Michael Zovistoski, a partner at UHY LLP and managing director of UHY Advisors NY Inc. in Albany, N.Y., was elected president of the New York State Society of CPAs.

Firms: Montreal accounting firm Fauteux, Bruno, Bussière, Leewarden (FBBL), with over 110 employees, and BDO Canada LLP have merged, bringing the total employees to over 300 in Canada … The New York firms Insero & Co. CPAs (offices in Rochester and Corning) and Ciaschi, Dietershagen, Little, Mickelson & Co. LLP (offices in Ithaca, Cortland, and Watkins Glen) agreed to merge their combined workforce of over 125 employees and will operate under the Insero & Co. brand … Johnson O’Connor Feron & Carucci LLP of Wakefield, Mass., has been admitted into AGN International North America Inc., an association of independent accounting and consulting firms … Ryan, a global tax services firm, was named one of the “2015 Best Employers” in Ohio.