member milestones.

• Position: California certified public accountants and accounting firms

Announcements

The AICPA awarded two-year transfer scholarships to Taylor Wilson, Hoa Tran and Samantha Moreno...

Sarah Peltakian is among the graduates of the AICPA's 10th Annual Leadership Academy.... Bregante + Company, with offices in San Francisco, Novato and Plcasanton, named David Crouch as firm managing partner and appointed Jennifer Ruth as the San Francisco office managing-partner ... GPW, LLP, San Diego, promoted Andrea K. Dear to partner and Diane L. Gilabert and Andrew T. Bolinger to tax partner... Ian Lawson joined Weaver, Manhattan Beach, as an audit partner... Moss Adams, Silicon Valley, named Arlene Chan a partner... Kelli K. Cox of CGC Accountants & Advisors, Palm Desert, earned the certified exit planning advisor designation from the Exit Planning Institute ... Eliza Minassian and Tayiika Dennis of CliftonLarsonAllen have been named by the Los Angeles Business Journal as among the most influential women in accounting in Los Angeles... Cyndi LeBerthon joined Wright Ford Young, Irvine, as an audit partner... Lucas Horsfall, Pasadena, named Matt Cochran audit principal and Eric So tax principal.... Michael G. Mouriski joined the Folsom office of Hanson McClain Tax Solutions... Moss Adams, San Francisco, named Francisco Sarmiento Jr.. and Kinman Tong partners... Gumbiner Savett Inc., Santa Monica, named Karla Chavez Luna shareholder... Price Paige and Company, Clovis, named Henry Oum partner... White Nelson Diehl Evans LLP, Irvine, promoted Joshua Basile to partner... Soares, Sandall, Bcrnacchi & Petrovich LLP, Oxnard, named Raj Acharya managing partner... BDO USA LLP, Los Angeles, promoted Benjamin White to office managing partner, tax services... RSM US LLP selected Matthew Bradvica of San Diego as its national business tax leader... Jim Karp has joined Lucas Horsfall, Encino, as a partner... Pradeep Budhiraja of Gumbiner Savett, Los Angeles, has been appointed to a two-year term to the California Board of Accountancy's Qualifications Committee, and Michael Savoy, also of Gumbiner Savett, has been reappointed to a four-year term on the California Board of Accountancy... Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP, Pasadena, admitted Joseph Lee to partnership ... BPM LLP, San Francisco, promoted Dmitri Alexeev, Mark Li and Shannon Winter to partner... Patty Mayer of Moss Adams, San Diego, is a finalist for the San Diego Business Journal* Business Women of the Year Awards... ColmReznick LLP, Los Angeles, elected Mohamed Ghattas as tax...