A partner in Assurance Practice Jerry Johnson, CPA, has been appointed Managing Partner of the Tampa Office. The leader of the firm’s public company practice, Johnson joined the firm in September 2017 after an almost 20-year career at KPMG, where he was a managing director.

The new Nashville Office Managing Partner Brandon Sherman, CISA, MBA mis a leader in the advisory practice. Sherman provides risk advisory, digital transformation and strategic consulting solutions to a variety of organizations of all sizes. Sherman, who became a partner in 2015, worked at Deloitte the prior nine years.

John Hightower, MBA, co-founder of Arch + Tower, an FD Company, and partner in the firm's advisory Practice, has been named chief growth officer. Hightower co-founded Arch + Tower in September 2017 and came to FD with its acquisition of that business.

 Amber Schrock, CPA, CISA, has been named the Las Vegas Market Leader. She is a principal in the FD advisory practice with expertise in gaming, hospitality and leisure, manufacturing and distribution, technology and utilities. Schrock has been with FD since July 2015. She had served the previous four years and eight months as risk advisory and consulting director.

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Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards.  Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He  has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind