Three Partners Elected to Board of BDO USA, LLP
07 October 2015 - 1:34AM
Business Wire
BDO USA, LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional service
organizations, today announced that Joe Johnson, Karen Stone and
Ted Vaughan have each been elected to three year terms to the
firm’s board of directors. Ms. Stone and Mr. Vaughan are new
directors, while Mr. Johnson was re-elected to a new term of
service. These changes are effective November 1.
“I want to congratulate our partners for the excellent judgment
they have shown in electing these three very deserving individuals
to the board of directors,” said Wayne Berson, CEO of BDO USA. “I
want to welcome Karen and Ted to the board and look forward to the
valuable insight they will bring to the governance process. Joe has
already made valuable contributions in his previous board service
and we are pleased that he will continue to do so in the
future.”
Joe B. Johnson, is a partner and a member of the BDO USA board
of directors since 2012. Mr. Johnson’s current board duties include
the chairmanship of the partner matters committee and membership on
the compliance and ethics committee. He also serves as the board
representative for BDO’s Women’s Initiative and sits on the firm’s
core values philanthropy committee. Mr. Johnson, who serves as the
managing partner of the assurance practice for the firm’s Orange
County office, has approximately 30 years of public accounting
experience providing business consulting and assurance services to
growing private and publicly-held companies. Joe works with
organizations in a broad range of industries, including service,
pharmaceutical, high technology, hospitality, software,
manufacturing and distribution, and financial services. A member of
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and
the California Society of CPAs, Joe received his B.S. in Accounting
from the University of Southern California and his M.B.A. in
Finance from California State University, Fullerton. In addition to
his firm commitments, Mr. Johnson also serves on the advisory board
of the Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance of the College
of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton
and the accounting advisory board of the Orfalea College of
Business at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Joe is a founding and active
board member of the Be Perfect Foundation – an organization that
benefits spinal cord injury victims.
Karen Stone is a partner and the office managing partner for tax
services in Nashville and Memphis. During her more than 25-year
career in public accounting, she has served clients in multiple
industries with a focus on the tax consulting and reporting needs
of real estate, manufacturing, consumer business and healthcare
companies. Karen has extensive experience in all areas of taxation
working with closely held businesses, large publicly traded
companies, portfolio companies of private equity firms, as well as
high-net worth individuals. She regularly assists her clients with
an array of tax specialty areas including merger and acquisition
issues. A graduate of Louisiana Tech University, Karen serves as
co-chair of BDO USA’s Women’s Inclusion Strategy Group. A member of
the AICPA and the Tennessee State Society of CPAs, she is also a
member of the Nashville Healthcare Council, the National
Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and the Tennessee
Association for Corporate Growth.
Ted Vaughan, is a Dallas-based assurance partner with 22 years
of audit and assurance experience. He also serves as the Public
Company Practice Leader for BDO and one of the leaders of the
firm’s Consumer Business practice. His clients are primarily
publicly-held companies or private equity portfolio businesses that
are developing plans to enter into public offerings or other
transactions. In his consumer business role, Ted focuses on the
accounting and reporting issues facing companies in the retail
industry and develops numerous retail-specific audit programs for
audits of internal control over financial reporting. Ted also
manages various areas of quality control for BDO. A graduate of
Texas Tech University, Ted is a member of the AICPA and the Texas
Society of Certified Public Accountants.
About BDO USA
BDO is the brand name for BDO USA, LLP, a U.S. professional
services firm providing assurance, tax, financial advisory and
consulting services to a wide range of publicly traded and
privately held companies. For more than 100 years, BDO has provided
quality service through the active involvement of experienced and
committed professionals. The firm serves clients through 63 offices
and more than 400 independent alliance firm locations nationwide.
As an independent Member Firm of BDO International Limited, BDO
serves multi-national clients through a global network of more than
1,300 offices in over 150 countries.
BDO USA, LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership, is the
U.S. member of BDO International Limited, a UK company limited by
guarantee, and forms part of the international BDO network of
independent member firms. BDO is the brand name for the BDO network
and for each of the BDO Member Firms. For more information please
visit: www.bdo.com.
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