Thursday, November 6
6:00 – 8:30pm
Biltmore Los Angeles

Educating the Next Generation of Accountants Who Lead with Purpose
At the College Nazarian College of Business and Economics, accounting education goes beyond textbooks and test scores. It’s about….
Transformation, Not Tradition
Today’s CPAs go far beyond managing led-gers and balancing books. They sit at the intersection of business strategy, technol….
2025 SPECIALTY AWARD HONOREES:
ACCOUNTING ICON AWARD
Honoree
THOMAS SCHULTE – Armanino LLP
LUCAS HORSFALL
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2025 TOP 100 ACCOUNTANTS
Bridget Ahern – EY
Limor Amrani – Manela & Company
Sally Aubury – SingerLewak
Meghan Avendt – PwC LLP
Ivan Axelrod – Provident Financial Management
Aryan Azarani – RSM US LLP
Ruth Baldauf – Partner Engineering and Science, Inc.
Tyson Beem – Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman LLC
Patricia Bell Harik – Harik Thompson
Grant Blackmon – Richey May
Debbie Chan – BDO USA
Steve Chhuor – EisnerAmper
Eric Chin – Akido Labs
Linda Chou – Lucas Horsfall
Matt Cochran – Lucas Horsfall
Steve Cupingood – SingerLewak
Kip Dellinger – Kallman & Company, LLP
Tayiika Dennis – Confidential
Jeremy Dillard – SingerLewak LLP
Kevin Doman – EY
Brian Donahue – PwC LLP
Kayo Elkner – Prager Metis
Jim Eubanks – KPMG
Anthony Ferguson – BDO USA
Corey Fischer – Weinberg & Company, P.A.
Steven Fishman – Fishman Block + Diamond
Glenn Frank – David Weise & Associates, A Division of NKSFB
Damon Frier – Grant Thornton
Mara Garcia – Phonexa
Michelle Germain – LA Business Management, LLP
Houtan Gholian – Manela & Company
W. Shane Glass – Gelfand Rennert & Feldman
Greg Glater – CohnReznick
Michael Good – CohnReznick
Howard Grobstein – Grobstein Teeple LLP
Keith Hamasaki – EisnerAmper
Lauren Haverlock – Baker Tilly
Jade Hoang – Baker Tilly
Damon Houterman – Baker Tilly
Mark Hughes – KPMG
Jeffrey Hyldahl – Fineman West & Co LLP
Robert Hymers – Pinnacle Tax Services
Cathy Hyodo – Grant Thornton
Steven Jager – Fineman West & Company
Albert Jang – Kim & Lee, LLP
Marijane Kantzabedian – Miller Kaplan
Miriam Kaplan – Duffy Kruspodin, LLP
Andrew Klint – Grant Thornton
Stacey Korman – EisnerAmper
Jason A. Krein – RSM US LLP
Raffi Kurkjian – RGK Accountancy, P.C.
Steve Landau – NKSFB, LLC
Daniel Lee – Duffy Kruspodin, LLP
Stephen Lee – Citrin Cooperman
Mary Leylekyan – Miller Kaplan
Harry Lin – Harry C. Lin, CPA A Professional Corporation
Michael Lin – Harry C. Lin, CPA A Professional Corporation
Steven Mandel – Smith Mandel & Associates, LLP
Josh Martin – Martin Business Management
Dave McLean – Stout
Andy Mintzer – Hemming Morse, LLC
Piyush Modi – CBIZ
Lorna Mouton Riff – CBIZ
Chikara “Ricky” Nagano – Prager Metis
Satpal Nagpal – GHJ
Lizbeth Nevarez – GHJ
Wendy On – Fineman West & Co LLP
Charles Osaki – Cerritos College
Parnia Pandkhou – Armanino LLP
Joseph Pangrazio – Hanmi Bank
David Papotta – Hyperion Accounting Group
Mark Pariser – Dunn, Pariser & Peyrot
Anant Patel – GHJ
Shannon Pearce – CBIZ
Jillian Phan – Meloni Hribal Tratner LLP
Karine Philippon – FORVIS Mazars
Kimberly Ravenell – Withum
Miklos Ringbauer – MiklosCPA, Inc.
Scott Roberts – PwC LLP
Joseph Rust – Prager Metis
Rick Schenkel – Richey May
Cindy Schoelen – BPM
Thomas Schulte – Armanino LLP
Karla Sharan – Forvis Mazars
Lewis Sharpstone – Lewis Sharpstone & Co.
Liel Shemtov – Miller Kaplan
Mark Silah – NKSFB, LLC
Mike Sovik – Lucas Horsfall
Matthew Sprague – Hedman Partners LLP
Kory Stoehr – BDO USA
Alex Sturm – Cohn Handler Sturm | An Accountancy Corporation
Carol Suruki-Carmany – Baker Tilly
Norm Tamkin – HCVT
Ken Teasdale – Armanino LLP
Elizabeth Tellado – EY
James Theobald – Withum
Mary Tripp – KPMG
Darcy Wilson-Jones – RSM US LLP
Marc Wolf – CohnReznick
Gary Zhang – Citrin Cooperman
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