Decosimo adds professionals and staff in three offices

Mallory M. Collier, CPA (Cincinnati) comes to the firm as a tax manager with over 20 years of tax experience and was most recently associated with a Fairfield, Ohio practice. She was graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Cincinnati with a BBA degree in Accounting.

Nancy F. Klaserner, CPA (Cincinnati) joins as an audit manager with 27 years experience including audits of Fortune 500 companies as well as closely-held companies. Nancy spent two years as a Practice Fellow at the AICPA in New York where she wrote technical guidance for the auditing profession and helped draft SAS No. 48. She holds a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan.

David B. Brooks (Chattanooga) joined the Corporate Finance Department as a consultant. David holds an M.B.A. from the University of Oxford, Mansfield College in the U.K. and a B.S. degree in Business and German from Wake Forest University. He was most recently a strategy consultant in Hamburg, London, New Delhi and Zambia.

John W. Leach (Memphis) joins the firm as a tax staff accountant after interning since January, 2006. John holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Tennessee and is working on a Master of Science in Accountancy at the University of Memphis.

Suzanne Sullivan (Cincinnati), a new staff accountant in the tax and audit areas, earned her B.S. degree in Accounting and Finance from Northern Kentucky University. She worked with a local CPA firm while attending college.

Julia K. Renner (Cincinnati) joins the administrative staff focusing primarily on financial statement processing. Julia comes with over 30 years experience in office administration including 13 with a local CPA firm.

Daniel Barber and Tamra Thompson (Chattanooga), students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, joined the Proofreading Department. Tamra had previously worked in our Knoxville office during her break from school. Ben Jendrek (Knoxville) will be working for the firm as a part-time runner.