Armanino has named two audit and three tax partners effective this month. The new partners are based in five California offices. The five are Michael Boulton, Stacie Kowalczyk, Tony Lam, Min Riblett and Sergio Salas.

Xero has named Graham Smith as its chair. The executive replaces Chris Liddell, who resigned to join the administration of president Donald Trump. Liddell told the New Zealand-based company that accepting the job required him to resign the position he has held for three years.

Robert D. Oros has been named CEO of H.D. Vest. He takes over the job on February 28 when Roger Ochs steps down. Blucora, which owns H.D. Vest, also this month hired a Sanjay Baskaran as the new president for its other business segment, TaxAct.