Member Milestones - corporate appointments and society news - Brief Article

California CPA, Nov, 2001

ANNOUNCEMENTS

In Sacramento, Perry-Smith LLP announces the promotion of Troy Prather to manager within its management consulting practice; also joining Perry-Smith are Peter G. Wiese, as audit manager in the financial institution practice and Sid Greenwell as senior manager in the firm's tax practice ... Theodore Mitchel has been promoted to partner at Ueltzen & Co. LLP in Rancho Murieta.

FIRM NEWS

In Los Angeles, Nancy A. Kearson has opened her own firm where she will concentrate in business appraisal, investigative forensic accounting and entertainment accounting ... Gilbert Accountancy Corp. has relocated to the South Natomas area in Sacramento and has changed its name to Gilbert Associates, Inc. CPAs and Advisors.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Andy Mattson, partner at the Silicon Valley firm Mohler, Nixon &Williams, has been appointed chairperson of the International Taxation Technical Resource Panel, the successor to the AICPA's International Taxation Committee ... In Hamburg, NY, Mark D. Thrasher, partner with the Buffalo firm Lucernoni, Schulz & Go, has been appointed chair of the Hilbert College Accounting Department ... Adrian Cole, a retired partner with Los Angeles-based Friedman, Minsk, Cole & Fastovsky, was recently named a 40-year honorary member of the AICPA ... CaICPA Chair David George; CaICPA CEO Susan Waters; David Cieslak, a partner with Information Technology Group and Education Foundation Board of Trustees past president; and Ronald J. Baker, founder of the VeraSage Institute, have been named to Accounting Today's "Top 100 Most Influential People" ... CaICPA candidate member Kimberlyn Gall, a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the first-place recipient of the 2001-02 Accountemps/AICPA $2,500 Student Scholar ship.