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Member News & Job Updates

May 9, 2024

Member promotions, new hires and news from November 1, 2023–February 29, 2024.

NEW HIRES

Lynn Auffart, CPA, controller, At Your School.

Gary Bushue, CPA, senior client advisor, CLH, CPAs & Consultants.

Ryan Cetnar, staff accountant, CLH, CPAs & Consultants.

Victor Hernandez, staff accountant, CLH, CPAs & Consultants.

Jerry Johnson Jr., CPA, CGMA, manager, Jones & Anderson CPA Group.

Shaun Johnston, CPA, director – business advisory, KSM.

Jordan Sheets, staff accountant, CLH, CPAs & Consultants.

PROMOTIONS

Jason Bainter, CPA, CDA, CGMA, MBA, director, CBIZ Somerset.

Cynthia Bay, CPA, CGMA, director, CBIZ Somerset.

Greg Chester, CPA, audit member, Dauby O’Connor & Zaleski, LLC.

Timothy Falconbury, CPA, ABV, partner, Sackrider & Company, Inc.

Chaleise Fleming, CPA, CFE, principal – tax services, Greenwalt CPAs, Inc.

Mary Grimmer, EA, manager, Insight Accounting Group, PC.

Joell Grisel, CPA, accounting director – Aliign, an affiliate of Blue & Co., LLC.

Angela Grothaus, CPA, CFE, CVA, director – CLH, CPAs & Consultants.

Sarah Hammond, CPA, partner – business advisory, KSM.

Abigail Hedges, CPA, tax services manager, Donovan CPAs.

Debbie Herbert, CPA, director – Blue & Co. LLC, Seymour branch.

Luke Hinton, CPA, senior accountant – Bradley Associates.

Cole House, CPA, director, CBIZ Somerset.

Lisa Human, CPA, director – CLH, CPAs & Consultants.

Devon Hunter, CPA, senior accountant – Bradley Associates.

Alan Kassis, CPA, associate partner, Sackrider & Company, Inc.

Jordan Mayer, CPA, partner – business advisory, KSM.

Corrie McConnell, CPA, tax member, Dauby O’Connor & Zaleski, LLC.

Cody Newport, CPA, partner, Kruggel Lawton CPAs.

Trishia Peterson, CPA, tax services manager, Donovan CPAs.

Victoria Pierceall, CPA, director, CBIZ Somerset.

Brittany Schutter, CPA, partner – business advisory, KSM.

Camecia Taylor, CPA, manager, Insight Accounting Group, PC.

Chris Thompson, CPA, audit member, Dauby O’Connor & Zaleski, LLC.

Kevin Umberger, CPA, director – Blue & Co., LLC.

Olivia Wolfe, CPA, tax senior, Greenwalt CPAs.

Jakob Wright, CPA, director, CBIZ Somerset.

MEMBER NEWS

Evan Brown, CPA, CFO at The Garrett Companies, receives top honor for Indianapolis Business Journal’s “2023 CFOs of the Year” for companies over $100 million.

Jose Castro, CPA, CIA, senior manager – Protiviti; Jeremy Davis, CPA, managing director – CBIZ Somerset; Eric Flueckiger, CPA, partner – FORVIS; Kyla Greenhoe, CPA, assurance principal – CliftonLarsonAllen LLP; Annie Hagan, CPA, assurance services manager — BGBC Advisory, LLC; Madeline Kurcz, CPA, assistant professor of accounting – Marian University; and Zee Malik, CPA, audit partner — Katz, Sapper & Miller, LLP, named Junior Achievement of Central Indiana’s 2023 “Best & Brightest” in Accounting & Finance category finalists.

Kylee Fraze-Norman, CPA, partner – CLH CPAs & Consultants, named a “2024 Northwest Indiana Women on the Rise” by the Purdue University Northwest Leadership Institute and Society of Innovators. 

Brittney Turner, CPA, CGMA, CFO – F.A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc., named among Finance & Investing’s national “Top 25 CFOs for 2023.”

ORGANIZATION NEWS

Blue & Co., LLC, and Katz, Sapper & Miller (KSM), named to Indiana Chamber of Commerce “2024 Best Places to Work in Indiana” in the Large Companies category (250–999 U.S. Employees).

CLA announces new $10 million training facility in Minnesota.

Donovan CPAs acquires Delta Wealth Advisors’ audit and assurance practice.

Donovan CPAs, Greenwalt CPAs, Inc., and Sponsel CPA Group LLC, named to Indiana Chamber of Commerce “2024 Best Places to Work in Indiana” in the Small Companies category (15–74 U.S. Employees).

Girardot, Strauch & Co., CPAs acquires Beardsley & Company, CPAs, effective August 1, 2024.

Kruggel Lawton CPAs named to Indiana Chamber of Commerce “2024 Best Places to Work in Indiana” in the Medium Companies category (75–249 U.S. Employees).

Sikich acquires Northeast Financial in Northeast Ohio.

VonLehman CPA & Advisory merges with Dean Dorton.

IN MEMORIAM

The Indiana CPA Society extends condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of the following INCPAS members who recently passed.

Timothy Doyle passed January 11, 2024.

Patricia ("Pat") Lowery passed November 12, 2023.

Do you have an update to share about yourself, a team member or your organization? Send it to Elise May.



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Elise May is the communications coordinator at the Indiana CPA Society.