Associations Bulletin Board

Alliott Group North America admitted two new members firms: Pry Professional Group of Findlay, Ohio (FY04 net revenue: $2 million; three partners, 21 total staff), and Sloan Group of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada (FY04 net revenue: $2 million, five partners, 21 total staff).

BKR International admitted

CPAmerica International admitted Wallace, PIese + Dreher of Tempe, Ariz. The firm has four partners and 21 total staff. The following were elected to CPAmerica's 2006 board of directors: Stephen Tatone of Aldrich Kilbride & Tatone in Salem, Ore., chair; David Graling of Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman in Bethesda, Md., vice chair; R. Earl Maxwell of Maxwell Locke & Ritter in Austin, Texas, immediate past chair; Jeffrey Anderson of Contryman Associates in Hastings, Neb., director; Michael Gillis of Davenport, Marvin, Joyce & Co. in Greensboro, N.C., director; Ronald Mitchell, Grice, Lund & Tarkington of Carlsbad, Calif., director; and Robert Porretti of Eldredge, Fox & Porretti in Rochester, N.Y., director.

DFK International/USA elected its 2006 officers: John McMurtry of KFMR Katz Ferraro McMurtry in Pittsburgh, president; Richard Bennett of Bennett Thrasher in Atlanta, presidentelect; John C. Swelling of Swalling & Assoc. in Anchorage, Alaska, immediate past president; Hal Hackerman of Ellin & Tucker in Baltimore, treasurer; and Glenn Lovett of Geffen Mesher & Co. in Portland, Ore., secretary. The following were named vice presidents: Bruce Madnick of Friedman LLP in New York; Jeff Garrison of Stonefield Josephson in Santa Monica, Calif.; and Steve Habib of Bloom Gettis Habib Silver Terrone & Rosner in Miami.

Jeffreys Henry International elected a new board for 2006. Among those elected were Ron Nash of New York's Marks Paneth & Shron, chair of the international executive committee; Stuart Meyers of Dorfman Abrams Music in Fair Lawn, N.J., incoming chair; and Jacob Leon of Houston-based Leon & Partners, Americas chair.

The Leading Edge Alliance appointed two new members of its board of directors: Carl Barranco, president of Wilson, Price, Barranco, Blankenship & Billingsley in Montgomery, Ala., and Frans Tijssen, managing partner of the Vernay office at BoI International in The Netherlands.

Russell Bedford International admitted Kross Border Trust Services of Mauritius as a correspondent firm. Until 2003, the firm was affiliated with KPMG.