– USA, IL – Grant Thornton LLP today announced the election of Mike Desmond and Kelli Knoble to the Partnership Board as new members.
The Partnership Board also announced current member Muhammad Bhayat as its chairman.
“Grant Thornton has combined flexibility, innovation and quality to thrive in today’s unprecedented and uncertain times, posting record high earnings in our last fiscal year. Our elected and renewed board members will be critical to our ongoing success — using their exceptional skills to help steer the growth and strategic direction of the firm,” said CEO, Brad Preber.
The Partnership Board helps govern the partnership and helps determine the firm’s direction.
Other Partnership Board members currently serving are:
- Brad Preber, CEO (based in Phoenix).
- Muhammad Bhayat, Audit partner (based in Iselin, New Jersey).
- Bert Fox, national managing partner of Professional Standards (based in Chicago).
- Catherine Hyodo, office managing partner for Los Angeles — where she is based.
- Chris Smith, national Strategy Solution leader for Advisory Services (based in Charlotte, North Carolina).
- Mark Sullivan, office managing principal for Chicago — where he is based.
- Jim Wittmer, national market growth leader for Tax (based in Philadelphia).
About Mike Desmond
Mike Desmond joins Grant Thornton’s Partnership Board with more than three decades of public accounting and corporate industry experience focused primarily within the manufacturing and technology sectors. He currently serves as the national client experience leader for Audit as well as the office managing partner of the firm’s Charlotte, North Carolina office. Desmond joined Grant Thornton as a partner in 2007 and previously served as the firm’s national Audit Industry and Growth leader. Before that, he led the firm’s Carolinas Consumer and Industrial Products industry team.
Desmond received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a CPA in North Carolina and a member of the AICPA.
About Kelli Knoble
Kelli Knoble joins the Partnership Board with more than 25 years of experience providing state and local tax services. She currently serves as the firm’s national Tax business lines leader and has held a range of other leadership positions, including Tax Services practice leader for the Carolinas. She focuses on income and franchise tax reviews and planning opportunities, with a specialty in helping clients manage the tax impacts resulting from business expansions and contractions.
She received a master’s degree in accounting and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a CPA in North Carolina and a member of the AICPA.
About Grant Thornton LLP
Founded in Chicago in 1924, Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the world’s leading organizations of independent audit, tax, and advisory firms. Grant Thornton, which has revenues of $1.97 billion and operates more than 50 offices, works with a broad range of dynamic publicly and privately held companies, government agencies, financial institutions, and civic and religious organizations.
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