Member milestones.

• Position: Brief article

Announcements

McGowan Guntermann, Santa Barbara, promoted Stephen Smith to accounting and audit partner and added Lorraine McIntire to it tax department ... Crowe Horwath LLP, Sacramento, promoted Nick Hollinden to partner in tax services, Scott Sachs to partner in audit services and Tim Bryan to partner in advisory services ... Rauly Gutierrez was promoted to Innovus Pharmaceuticals' principal financial and accounting officer.

Accomplishments

Kimberly Pugliese of EY, San Francisco, and Marina Zhiltsov of EY, San Jose, received the AICPA Elijah Watt Sells Award for being among the top CPA Exam performers in 2016 ... Deborah Dickson of Smith Dickson, Irvine; Stacie Kitts and Diane Wittenberg, both with Haskell & White, Irvine; and Susan Levinstein and Jodi Ristrom. both of whom are with HMWC CPAs & Business Advisors, Tustin, are 201 7 Women in Business nominees for the Orange County Business Journal... Accounting Today named KROST CPAs & Consultants as a 2017 regional leader in the west and ranked it among...