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The 2023 NJBIZ Accounting Power 50 slideshow

June 26, 2023 12:03 am

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The top 10 honorees are ranked numerically; the remaining 40 are listed alphabetically. Click here to read more from this year’s list.

  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-1-aiysha-johnson/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 1: Aiysha Johnson</a>, executive director, New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-2-lara-abrash-2/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 2: Lara Abrash</a>, chair and CEO, Deloitte & Touche LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-3-dan-geltrude/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 3: Dan Geltrude</a>, founder, Geltrude & Co.
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-4-alan-sobel/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 4: Alan Sobel</a>, managing principal, CLA
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-5-lori-roth/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 5: Lori Roth</a>, global managing partner; member of Prager Metis International Group; and partner in the Audit and Accounting, and Advisory Services Departments
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-6-andrew-coombs/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 6: Andrew Coombs</a>, CEO and managing partner, Coombs CPA PC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-7-patrick-walsh/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 7: Patrick Walsh</a>, CEO and managing partner, Withum
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-8-diane-wasser/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 8: Diane Wasser</a>, partner-in-charge of New Jersey, managing partner of regions, EisnerAmper
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-9-miklos-vasarhelyi/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 9: Miklos Vasarhelyi</a>, director, Rutgers University Accounting Research Center
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/no-10-stacey-udell/"><span style="color: #ff0000">No. 10: Stacey Udell</a>, Mid-Atlantic regional director, HBK Cannabis Solutions
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Karen Artasanchez</a>, shareholder and tax department partner, WilkinGuttenplan
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Glenn Bellomy</a>, partner, Red Bank office, WithumSmith+Brown
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Todd Bialick</a>, partner and leader of the US Digital Assurance & Transparency practice, PwC US
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">James Blake</a>, chief operating officer, Mazars
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">James Bourke</a>, managing director for advisory services, Withum
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Harry Carpenter</a>, co-leader of cannabis advisory services practice, Citrin Cooperman
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Anthony Castellano</a>, assurance practice leader, BDO
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Jeffrey Christakos</a>, accounting and wealth management professor, Seton Hall University
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Joseph Damiano</a>, CEO and managing partner, Sax LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Scott Derco</a>, partner, Citrin Cooperman
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Nicole DeRosa</a>, partner and senior tax manager, Wiss & Co.
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Andrea Diaz</a>, partner, SKC & Co. CPAs
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Howard Dorman</a>, national sector leader, Mazars USA LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-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/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Tracey Early and David Untracht</a>, co-founders, Untracht Early (now part of Citrin Cooperman)
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Paula Ferreira</a>, office managing partner, Mazars USA LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Glenn Friedman</a>, CEO, Prager Metis
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Timothy Gearty</a>, founder and managing partner, Gearty & McIntyre; editor-in-chief and national lead instructor, Becker
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Victoria Ghafoor</a>, associate director, FP&A Global Vaccines, Merck
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Sally Glick</a>, business development adviser and brand ambassador, CLA
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Phillip Goldstein</a>, CEO, Goldstein Lieberman & Co.
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Michael Hochman</a>, partner and co-leader of the New Jersey market, Grassi
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-a-h/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Joseph Hunt</a>, senior, CLA
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Paul Krieger</a>, managing partner, New Jersey practice, Deloitte LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Christopher Lovasz</a>, managing director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Jerry Maginnis</a>, accounting executive in residence, Rowan University
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Christopher Massood</a>, manager, Massood & Co. PA
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Bryan Merrigan</a>, managing partner, Grant Thornton
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Edward O’Connell</a>, lead, International Financial Reporting and Multi-National Organizations, Withum
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Shawn Panson</a>, U.S. private leader, PwC’s Private Practice
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Maria Rollins</a>, managing partner, KRS CPAs LLC
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Michael Saccomanno</a>, partner-in-charge, Valuation, Forensic & Litigation Support Services in New Jersey, Marcum LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Steven Schinella</a>, New Jersey office managing partner, CohnReznick LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Jennifer Shimek</a>, principal, Advisory Services, KPMG LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Chris Smith</a>, partner, office managing partner in East Hanover and New Jersey leader for capital markets, Marcum LLP
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Sandy Suchoff</a>, partner, The Canna CPAs (Lefstein-Suchoff CPA & Associates LLC)
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Karen Taylor-Burke</a>, partner, PKF O’Connor Davies
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Jeffrey Thomson</a>, senior strategic advisor, Competent Boards
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">June Toth</a>, principal, WilkinGuttenplan
  • <a href="https://njbiz.com/2023-accounting-power-50-i-z/"><span style="color: #ff0000">Jay Weinstein</a>, vice chair of industries and markets, EisnerAmper

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