Rosie is our firm's president. Her work focuses on audits, including employee benefit plans, internal controls, and SOC engagements.
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Leadership Team
Angela Alexander
CPA, MSA - DirectorAngela is a director in our tax department. Her work focuses on consolidated structures, transaction planning, and mergers and acquisitions.
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Michael S. Essenmacher
CPA - DirectorMike is the director of the assurance services department and leads our construction group practice. His work focuses on audit, reviewing internal controls, and fraud awareness.
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Larry D. Friedman
CPA, MT - DirectorLarry is the chairman of the tax department. He specializes in S Corp taxation, corporate acquisitions and reorganizations.
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Laurie A. Gatten
CPA, CFE - DirectorLaurie is a director in the assurance services department, and leads our not-for-profit group practice. Her work focuses on compliance services, internal control studies, financial and quality of earnings analyses, and due diligence procedures.
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Janine M. Iacobelli
CPA, CEPA - DirectorJanine is a director in the assurance services department, and serves as our firm administrator. She leads the firm's human resources consulting group to assist clients with recruiting, hiring, and benefits analysis.
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Matthew D. Maker
CPA, MT - DirectorMatt is a director in the tax department. His work focuses on tax compliance, consulting, research, and tax planning at the federal, state, and local levels.
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Timothy D. Mayles
CPA, CFF, CFE - DirectorTim is a director in the assurance services department. He specializes in fraud prevention and detection, forensic accounting, internal control studies, and audits of privately-held businesses.
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Jeffrey D. Neuman
CPA, JD - DirectorJeff works with a diverse group of clients, specializing in business development, and estate, retirement and succession planning. He advises business clients on growth and exit strategies.
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Michael Pappas
CPA, CEPA - DirectorMike is a director in the assurance services department. He specializes in succession planning, benchmarking services, and operational management reporting and metrics.
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Steven J. Piatak
CPA, ABV, CFF - DirectorSteve is a director and leads Barnes Wendling CPAs' Valuation Services. His work focuses on valuation and ligation services, along with fair value for financial reporting, including intangible and option valuations.
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Jeffrey L. Schmittgen
CPA - DirectorJeff is a director in our tax department and specializes in family businesses, healthcare, and hospitality. His work focuses on practice management reviews, software evaluation, financial analysis, and consulting on business acquisition and expansion.
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Floyd A. Trouten III
CPA - DirectorFloyd is a tax director in the transaction advisory service area. His industry focus includes working with manufacturers, distributors, financial service companies, high-tech and software companies, and private equity/investment companies.
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Robert G. Zunich
CPA, ABV - DirectorRob is a director in the assurance services department. His experience includes business and accounting consultation, attest services, and corporate taxation.
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Ryan N. Bidlack
IT PrincipalRyan is an IT principal and leads our team in performing SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits. His work focuses on designing and implementing internal controls over data security, including configuring firewalls, implementing backup solutions, and assessing disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
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Kathrine T. Gabel
CPA, CFE - PrincipalKathrine is a principal in our assurance services department. Her work focuses on providing accounting, audit, fraud, and tax services for privately held companies.
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Donald P. Hanck
CPA, ABV, CFF - PrincipalDon serves local businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and individuals. He specializes in consulting on business valuations for estate and gift tax planning, succession planning, business acquisitions and sales, and litigation support.
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Laure B. Javorsky
CPA - PrincipalLaure is a principal in the assurance services department and a member of our employee benefit plan group practice. She provides audit, review, compilation, and tax services to privately held companies in the manufacturing, distribution, and service industries.
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Lacie L. O'Daire
JD, LL.M. - PrincipalLacie is a principal who works in all areas of taxation, specializing in individual and business income and transfer tax planning.
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Lena M. Parks
CPA - PrincipalLena is a principal in the assurance services department and a member of our not-for-profit industry group practice. She provides accounting, audit, and tax services, and assists clients in consulting needs.
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Sondra L. Sofranko
CPA - PrincipalSondra is a principal in our tax department. Her work focuses on personal services, individuals, trusts, estates, and gifts.
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Jordan A. Batch
CPA - Senior ManagerJordan is a senior manager in our assurance services department. She specializes in employee benefit plan audits, corporate audits, reviews, and compilations.
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Stephen J. Cox Jr.
CPA - Senior ManagerStephen is a senior manager working across both our tax and accounting services lines. His work focuses on tax review, planning, research, consulting, and compliance services for not-for-profit and service enterprise clients.
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Heather R. Cunningham
CPA, MBA - Senior ManagerHeather is a senior manager in our assurance services department. She works closely with the firm’s manufacturing and distribution and service enterprises clients.
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Mandi C. Raneri
CPA, MT - Senior ManagerMandi is a senior manager working with our manufacturing and distribution, and service enterprise clients. Her work focuses on S and C corporations, and tax and accounting considerations related to high-net worth individuals.
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Michael D. Shepherd
CVA - Senior ManagerMichael is a senior manager in our business valuation services department. His work focuses on valuation and litigation services, along with fair value for financial reporting.
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Zachary A. Weiss
CPA - Senior ManagerZack is a senior manager in our assurance services department. He specializes in audit, review, and compilation engagements in the construction, manufacturing, and service industries.
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