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At a glance: 2024 NJBIZ Accounting Power 50 (photos)

June 24, 2024 12:04 am

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The top 10 honorees are ranked numerically; the remaining 40 are listed alphabetically. Click on any honoree’s name below to learn more about them, or click here to read more from this year’s list.

Editor’s note: This slideshow was updated to correct the spelling of Harry Wills III’s name and to reflect James Blake’s most recent title and his company’s new name.

  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-1-aiysha-johnson-2/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 1: Aiysha Johnson</a> | Executive director and CEO, New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-2-lara-abrash-3/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 2: Lara Abrash</a> | Chair, Deloitte LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-3-andrew-coombs/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 3: Andrew Coombs</a> | CEO and managing partner, Coombs CPA PC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-4-joseph-damiano/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 4: Joseph Damiano</a> | CEO and managing partner, Sax LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-5-diane-wasser/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 5: Diane Wasser</a> | Partner-in-charge of New Jersey and managing partner of regions, EisnerAmper
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-6-patrick-walsh/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 6: Patrick Walsh</a> | CEO and managing partner, Withum
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-7-susan-coffey/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 7: Susan Coffey</a> | CEO, Public Accounting, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-8-june-toth/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 8: June Toth</a> | Principal, WilkinGuttenplan
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-9-deborah-sundermann/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 9: Deborah Sundermann</a> | Managing director, Cg Tax, Audit & Advisory
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-10-renata-serban/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 10: Renata Serban</a> | Founder and CEO, Highly Elevated CPA
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Karen Artasanchez</a> | Shareholder, WilkinGuttenplan
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">James Blake</a> | co-regional managing partner, Forvis Mazars
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">James Bourke</a> | Partner and managing director, Withum
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Harry Carpenter</a> | New Jersey practice leader, co-chair, Cannabis Advisory Services Practice, Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Anthony Castellano</a> | Assurance practice leader, BDO USA LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Jeffrey Christakos</a> | Accounting and wealth management professor, Seton Hall University; tax partner, Christakos & Co. PC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Mike DePrisco</a> | President and CEO, Institute of Management Accountants
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Nicole DeRosa</a> | Tax partner, Wiss
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Andrea Diaz</a> | Partner, SKC & Co. CPAs LLC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Howard Dorman</a> | Senior advisor, Forvis Mazars
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Brigid D'Souza</a> | Assistant professor, Saint Peters University's Frank J. Guarini School of Business
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Tracey Early and David Untracht</a> | Family office practice leader and tax partner, Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Paula Ferreira</a> | Assistant managing partner, New York metro area, Forvis Mazars
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Dan Fiorentino</a> | Managing director, WilkinGuttenplan
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Glenn Friedman</a> | CEO, Prager Metis CPAs
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Timothy Gearty </a> | Partner, Gearty & McIntyre LLP CPA
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Dan Geltrude</a> | Managing partner, Geltrude & Co. LLC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Victoria Ghafoor</a> | Associate director, Global Vaccines Financial Planning & Analysis, Merck & Co. Inc.
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Phillip Goldstein</a> | CEO, Goldstein Lieberman & Co. LLC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Michael Hochman</a> | Partner, co-leader, New Jersey Market, Grassi
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Joseph Hunt</a> | Manager, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP)
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Christopher Lovasz</a> | Managing director, Deloitte LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Jerry Maginnis</a> | Accounting executive in residence, Rowan University
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Bryan Merrigan</a> | Managing principal, MetroPark office, Grant Thornton LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Shawn Panson</a> | U.S. private leader, PwC Private Practice
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Maria Rollins</a> | Managing partner, KRS CPAs LLC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">David Roth</a> | Managing partner, RRBB Advisors LLC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Lori Roth</a> | Global managing partner, Prager Metis
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Michael Saccomanno</a> | Partner-in-charge, Valuation, Forensic & Litigation Support Services, Marcum LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Steven Schinella</a> | Office managing partner - New Jersey, CohnReznick LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Jennifer Shimek</a> | Short Hills office managing partner, KPMG LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Chris Smith</a> | Partner, Marcum LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Alan Sobel</a> | Managing principal, New Jersey offices, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP)
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Sandy Suchoff</a> | Partner, The Canna CPAs
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Andrej Suskavcevic</a> | President and CEO, Financial Executives International and Financial Education & Research Foundation
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Karen Taylor-Burke</a> | Partner, PKF O'Connor Davies
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Robert Traphagen</a> | Managing partner, Traphagen CPAs
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Stacey Udell</a> | Principal, HBK Valuation Group; Mid-Atlantic regional director, HBK Cannabis Solutions
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Miklos Vasarhelyi</a> | Director, Rutgers University Accounting Research Center
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2024-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Harry Wills III</a> | Managing partner, Bowman & Co.

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