Congratulations to the 36 very good boys and girls who can count themselves among the flock of BDO’s chosen ones. Okay, maybe that’s a touch extravagant for a BDO partner, but that does not diminish the achievement.
This year’s class is a smidgen smaller compared to last year’s 39, but it’s still a large class since Going Concern’s been covering the promotions. There were 30 new partners in 2015, 24 in 2014, 16 in ’13, 15 in ’12, 13 in ’11, and 5 in ’10.
There are 19 assurance partners, 12 tax, two advisory and three in the national office. I count 11 women in this class, just under a third of the total. Here’s the list:
- Jason Aldridge (Washington DC – Assurance)
- Brooke Anderson (Pittsburgh – Tax)
- John Barry (Orange County – Assurance)
- Brad Bird (Chicago – National Assurance)
- Danny Castro (Fort Lauderdale – Tax)
- Craig Christie (Philadelphia – IS Assurance)
- Jason Cuda (Atlanta – Assurance)
- Anthony Diianni (Philadelphia – Assurance)
- Chad Estes (Anchorage – Tax)
- Heidi Franklin (Washington DC – Assurance)
- Ryan Hecht (Columbus – Assurance)
- Alex Iacobelli (Los Angeles – Assurance)
- Carlye Klimek (Grand Rapids – Tax)
- Lee Klumpp (Washington DC – National Assurance)
- Jin Koo (Dallas – National Assurance)
- Ritesh Lall (New York – Assurance)
- Dennis Lam (Los Angeles – Assurance)
- Tracy Lewis (Richmond – Assurance)
- David McClain (Akron – Tax)
- Christopher Mueller (Milwaukee – Tax)
- Steve O’Donnell (Spokane – Assurance)
- Nicole Pak (Raleigh – Assurance)
- Jim Passaro (Philadelphia – Tax)
- Kevin Patterson (Grand Rapids – Assurance)
- Chad Paul (Milwaukee – Tax)
- Ann Pena (San Antonio – Tax)
- Jacob Pensler (Charlotte – Tax)
- Bernadette Pieters-Harilal (New York – Human Resources)
- Karen Schuler (Washington DC – Advisory)
- Natallia Shapel (New York – National Tax)
- David Stasiewicz (Chicago – Corporate Planning & Development)
- Alison Torres (Washington DC – Transaction Advisory Services)
- Brian Vigneault (Boston – Tax)
- Reid Wade (Houston – Assurance)
- Andrea Wilson (Washington DC – Industry Services)
- Waylon Wood (Houston Assurance)
Way to go, everyone. It would be fitting if they all took a pie to the face, wouldn’t it? I think we can all agree that that should be the new BDO partner initiation.
[BDO]