Chris Vitacek
Chris serves as a senior manager and Enterprise Architect for HORNE’s Intelligence and Automation group. With a focus on innovation and impact, he leads a dynamic team of architects, system designers, and developers to design and implement solutions that leverage the...
Jelliam Díaz Pérez
Jelliam is a senior manager on HORNE’s Government Services team where she serves as a subject matter expert in project management, policy, contracts, leading high-performance teams and organizational development. She assists the Puerto Rico Department of Housing with...
Salim Laham
Salim is a senior manager on HORNE’s Government Services team as a project manager for infrastructure programs under Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery Programs for the Puerto Rico Department of Housing. He serves as a professional civil engineer...
Tamary Álvarez
Tamary is a senior manager on HORNE’s Government Services team under Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Programs for the Puerto Rico Department of Housing. Serving as the Energy Sector lead, she oversees various energy programs from a...
Paula Barron
Paula is a senior manager in client advisory services at HORNE, where she specializes in ensuring a seamless onboarding experience for new clients. Leading a dedicated team of professionals, Paula integrates clients’ existing accounting systems with the firm’s...
Caitlin Cruthird
Caitlin is a tax senior manager in the comprehensive tax solutions group at HORNE, where she specializes in tax compliance and consulting for publicly and privately held companies, including closely held family businesses and their owners, helping clients navigate complex tax regulations, optimize their tax strategies, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax laws.
Colin Philips
Colin is a senior manager on the construction team at HORNE. He serves clients by providing audit and consulting services. Colin joined the firm in 2024 with nearly 20 years of experience in public accounting and industry.
Sarah Legner
Sarah is an audit senior manager on the Compliance & Monitoring team at HORNE. She specializes in conducting comprehensive audits and thorough compliance reviews, ensuring that clients meet all regulatory and programmatic standards and requirements. She is skilled in client relationship management, business development, and navigating program challenges by implementing programs that maximize funding while reducing the risk of recapture.
Stephen Faulkner
Stephen is a senior manager on HORNE’s Intelligence & Automation team, where he serves as Senior Systems Developer utilizing innovative technology to help FEMA Public Assistance and HUD CDBG-DR teams manage the disaster recovery process. He works to implement...
Michelle Wise
Michelle is a payroll senior manager on HORNE’s Franchise team where she leads payroll operations and oversees the collection, compilation and accurate entry of data for clients. She also specializes in managing deductions, garnishments, salary adjustments and ensuring that payroll processing meets deadlines.
Mahlia Fritz
Mahlia is a senior manager on HORNE’s Franchise team. She is dedicated to maintaining ongoing client relations and understanding the unique need of each client she serves. She ensures the preparation of financial statements are in accordance with industry...
Dion O’Reilly
Dion is a senior manager on HORNE’s Intelligence & Automation team, where he serves as the Enterprise GIS Database Administrator. Dion joined the firm in 2020 with nearly 25 years of experience using data analytics to assist in CDBG-DR, CDBG-MIT, HUD grant...
Tyler Bridges
Tyler Bridges is a senior manager for HORNE’s Government Services division and serves on the Technical Advisory Group where he primarily focuses on managing HORNE’s HUD Technical Assistance (TA) portfolio funded directly by HUD’s Community Compass Initiative.
Danny Permar
Danny is a senior manager on HORNE’s Government Services team where he serves as program director of the Lee County CDBG-DR Individual Housing Program.
Leslie James
Leslie is a senior manager on HORNE’s Franchise team, where she excels in maintaining year-round client contact, understanding their business, and managing projects and budgets.
Wesley Williams
Wesley is a senior manager in the construction practice area at HORNE. He specializes in providing corporate and individual tax compliance, consulting, and tax planning services. He works to deliver timely and accurate deliverables to keep his clients in compliance...
Joseph Rooks
Joseph Rooks is an accounts payable senior manager on HORNE’s Franchise team where he prioritizes and oversees projects, ensuring efficient team load distribution and project execution.
Gage Ray
Gage Ray is an audit senior manager on the construction team at HORNE. He maintains regular communication with clients throughout the year, allowing him to develop a comprehensive understanding of their businesses, proactively identify potential challenges and address inquiries that arise during projects.
Kevin Jacobs
Kevin Jacobs is a senior manager on HORNE’s construction team, where he develops working relationships with construction clients by serving as fractional CFO, controller and advisor, overseeing all financial aspects of project accounting and reporting.
Hayley Deer
Hayley Deer is an operations senior manager on HORNE’s healthcare team. In this role, she offers financial guidance to her team while ensuring administrative tasks run seamlessly by overseeing internal client servers. She also lends support to partners and managers and actively participates in strategic initiatives to drive continuous growth.
Warren Haas
Warren Haas is an infrastructure engineer serving on HORNE’s data and technology team.
Peter Graves
Peter Graves is a senior manager at HORNE where he serves as a solutions architect for the firm’s franchise team.
Jason Clark
Jason Clark is a senior manager on the government services team at HORNE where he develops partnerships and cultivates relationships with clients, architects, engineers, local officials and vendors.
David Long
David Long is a senior manager on HORNE’s healthcare team, where he develops services inclusive of value-based care and accountable care transformation, especially for community and rural health partners.
Jack Rohlinger
Jack Rohlinger is a senior manager on HORNE’s government services team, where he serves as the deputy construction director for various hurricane recovery programs.
Carlos Fournier
Carlos Fournier-Gonzalez is a is a senior manager in HORNE’s government services group where he manages the CDBG-MIT Strategic Direct-Selection Infrastructure Mitigation Program, with a total allocated budget of nearly $1.5 billion.
Tonya White
Tonya White is a senior manager on HORNE’s firm services team, where she leads the firm’s accounting department, payroll team, accounts payable and accounts receivable team.
Colby Herndon
Colby Herndon is a senior manager at HORNE where he primarily serves financial institution clients in both external and internal audit capacities for both SEC and privately-held institutions.
Lindy Wilkinson
Lindy Wilkinson is a senior manager on the construction team at HORNE where she focuses on providing advisory, assurance and consulting services to clients.
Ty Hardy
Ty Hardy is a senior project manager at HORNE where he serves publicly and privately held companies with a specific focus on federal grants.
Maribel Gatica
Maribel Gatica serves as a government services senior manager at HORNE. She specializes in collaborating with state and local government units to design and administer their Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) and Community Development Block Grant – Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) programs.
Josh Clark
Josh Clark is a senior manager on the government services team at HORNE, where he serves as a systems project manager. He specializes in design and process creation, implementation and offering end-to-end solutions for clients.
Joseph Kasal
Joseph Kasal is a senior assurance manager in HORNE’s Construction group. He specializes in offering consulting and advisory services to contractors, bonding agents, attorneys and sureties.
Bukky Akorede
Bukky Akorede is a government services senior manager at HORNE where she primarily serves as a manager for public assistance projects.
Lisa Hardjono
Lisa Hardjono is a senior manager for the HORNE’s Franchise group where she serves as a solutions architect.
Beth Lowery
Beth Lowery is a learning and development senior manager within the franchise group at HORNE where she provides oversight of the learning and development strategy.
Scott Johnson
Scott Johnson is a business advisory and accounting senior manager in the franchise practice at HORNE.
Laura Scruggs
Laura Scruggs is a senior manager in HORNE’s Government Services group where she serves as an eligibility expert for Tennessee’s ARPA program. She ensures compliance with federal regulations for federal funding streams.
Joseph Raby
Joseph Raby is a financial institutions assurance senior manager at HORNE. He manages external audits for SEC and privately held institutions, and he performs Sarbanes-Oxley and FDICIA compliance testing and consulting.
Michael Chua
Michael Chua is a senior manager in HORNE’s government services group where he serves as a subject matter expert for HORNE’s disaster recovery and mitigation portfolio.
Aubrey Leigh Goodwin
Aubrey Leigh is a senior manager within HORNE’s Public and Middle Market group where she works with the compliance and monitoring team. In this role, she develops strategies and solutions tailored to each client’s unique needs by leveraging her knowledge of regulatory frameworks and history of working with state and federal partners.
Stephanie Akin
Stephanie Akin is a senior manager servicing healthcare clients in reimbursement and advisory at HORNE. She specializes in Medicare and Medicaid cost report preparation for various facilities.
Kyle Skene
Kyle Skene is an assurance senior manager at HORNE. He is responsible for team leadership, review of audit test work and managing client relationships for publicly and privately held clients across a variety of industries including agribusiness, telecommunications and manufacturing.
Laurie Lus
Laurie Lus is a senior manager in HORNE’s government services group where she manages disbursements.
Matthew van Drunen
Matthew van Drunen is a senior manager within HORNE’s government services group where he helps clients address their challenges with program implementation, compliance and operations.
Nelson Dixon
Nelson Dixon is an assurance senior manager within HORNE’s healthcare group where he leads business development initiatives and conducts comprehensive research to identify business opportunities
Charles Arinder
Charles Arinder is a business advisory and accounting services senior manager in the franchise practice at HORNE.
Elizabeth Boyle
Elizabeth Boyle is a client experience leader at HORNE where she works with franchise owners to provide strategic planning, data analysis and insights on financial results and operational practices.
Alex Yarbrough
Alex Yarbrough is a government services senior manager at HORNE, where he currently serves as a subject matter expert in policy guidance and interpretation, federal procurement requirements, and leveraging combined funding streams.
Katia Gonzalez-Torres
Katia Gonzalez-Torres is a senior program manager within HORNE’s government services team where she serves the Puerto Rico Department of Housing’s grant management team as the CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT Housing Programs sector lead.
Clark Hunter
Clark Hunter is a senior manager in healthcare services at HORNE. Clark focuses on working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities to serve clients and provide them with added value.
Mary Margaret White
Mary Margaret White is a senior manager at HORNE where she serves publicly and privately held companies. She specializes in tax return compliance, accounting for income taxes under ASC 740 and tax consulting for public and large, privately-owned clients.
Bradley Floore
Bradley is a financial institutions assurance senior manager at HORNE. He serves clients primarily in external audit capacities and regulatory compliance engagements. He serves both publicly traded and privately held institutions.
Jennifer Summers
Jennifer Summers serves as assistant counsel for HORNE where she offers legal advice to senior leadership and administration regarding issues affecting the organization and its specific decisions.
Christine Waldron
Christine Waldron is a government services senior manager for HORNE. She manages project teams to meet client goals and expectations related to the administration of CDBG-DR, SSBG, FEMA, and CARES Act funded programs. Christine has experience in operationalizing large teams in production environments by utilizing program data to maximize efficiencies.
Lauren Poche
Lauren Poche is a historic preservation senior manager and architectural historian at HORNE. She specializes in architectural history, history and archival research and has extensive experience as an archaeologist who focuses on historic period sites.
Brett Watkins
Brett Watkins is a senior manager at HORNE who specializes in developing and implementing innovative programs to improve employee health and productivity. He is passionate about educating, guiding and assisting employees achieve a healthier lifestyle.
Vipin Prasad
Vipin Prasad is a senior manager in the business process solutions practice at HORNE where he serves as a technical business analyst/project manager. He specializes in business analysis, requirements analysis, current-state assessments, communication and helps liaise and coordinate future-state recommendations and solution delivery.
Justin Poole
Justin Poole is a senior manager in the comprehensive tax solutions group at HORNE. He oversees the client advisory services team which offers outsourced accounting solutions to privately held companies.
Melanie Stewart
Melanie Stewart is a senior manager in the government services practice at HORNE where she oversees all technology systems, integrations and data and the implementation of system changes. She leads business requirements analysis efforts by partnering with key stakeholders to tailor implemented systems to meet changes in all core IT systems. Additionally, she leads all information systems, application and analytical reporting development and delivery for Puerto Rico’s CDBG-DR 23 Program Portfolio. She provides advisement on how information technology solutions and systems can meet CDBG-DR recovery goals.
Stephanie Fowler
Stephanie Fowler is a senior manager in the healthcare practice at HORNE where she specializes in helping clients improve their financial performance by providing customized accounting solutions that include financial statements and forecast, accounts payable, accounts receivable and billing, income allocation and key metrics.
Kelli Carver
Kelli is a senior manager in government services at HORNE where she is currently part of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) recovery accounting team in Biloxi, MS, working to provide accounting oversight for the MEMA Public Assistance program. She works as a liaison between the Federal Emergency Management Agency, MEMA and the sub-grantees to resolve any issues that may arise in the initial project review or final inspection process.
Sara Yates
Sara Yates is a senior manager in the government services practice at HORNE where she works to execute human resources programs including employee relations, regulatory and compliance requirements and risk management. She is passionate about assisting internal stakeholders integrate their professional and personal lives while meeting and exceeding the needs of their clients by listening and researching solutions.
Lori Cochran
Lori Cochran is a senior manager in government services at HORNE. She leads Uniform Relocation Act services and compliance for the New York State Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery. She advises clients in areas of policy and operations that are consistent with federal guidelines and support their overall recovery mission.
Lori Cunningham
Lori Cunningham is a senior manager in government services at HORNE where she directs Geographic Information Systems (GIS) development. Lori applies GIS technologies to disaster recovery programs by developing streamlined approaches to spatial analyses and map production, disseminating data via GIS websites and implementing mobile field data collection applications.
Tiffany Schwarzauer
Tiffany Schwarzauer is a government services senior manager at HORNE LLP. She currently works as a project manager for a housing grant program for the state of North Carolina. She works directly with the state agency to ensure compliance with federal regulations and to assist in developing processes to increase workflow.
Jenna Abbey
Jenna Abbey is a senior manager in the government services practice at HORNE. She specializes in providing and implementing solutions for clients and their most demanding challenges. She is skilled in process development, data analysis, streamlining operations, managing stakeholder collaboration, reporting and financial stewardship.
Vicki Smith
Vicki Smith is a senior manager in the government services division of HORNE. She is a division leader/coordinator assigned to state recovery accounting oversight projects where she provides disaster relief management and compliance for the Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation Grant Programs.
Megan Conner
Megan Conner is the attorney for the government services focus area at HORNE where she is responsible for contract review and negotiation and advises the focus area on legal matters that may arise.
Monica Thompson
Monica Thompson is a senior manager in government services at HORNE where she assists with business development efforts. She collaborates internally and externally to continue to advance the firm within the industry and position for future growth opportunities.
Ali Garrison
Ali Garrison serves as a senior manager for government services where she provides oversight, operations support and compliance support for state and local governments, including funds made available through the CARES Act and American Rescue Plan Act. She focuses on project management processes and procedures, and she collaborates with states to maximize and accelerate funding disbursement.
Sam Hurst
Sam is a senior manager in government services at HORNE where he has over ten years of managerial experience in working directly with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), specifically with the Public Assistance (PA) and Individual Assistance (IA) Direct Housing Programs. He specializes in FEMA Debris Removal, Stafford Act compliance, Intergovernmental Service agreement, and disaster recovery program compliance.
Daniel Paul
Daniel Paul is a senior manager in government services at HORNE. He serves as the program director for the Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Matthew, and Hurricane Joaquin recovery programs under the South Carolina Office of resilience.
Bill Wadlington
Bill Wadlington is a senior manager in government services at HORNE. He specializes in information technology management.
Amy Wilson Smith
Amy Wilson Smith is a senior manager at HORNE where she provides various tax services for multi-state business entities, financial institutions, fiduciary entities, as well as nonprofit organizations. She primarily assists large, privately-owned corporate and flow-through clients with their tax compliance and consulting needs.
Megan Toles
Megan Toles is a senior manager for privately and publicly held companies. She serves primarily in the external audit capacities in a variety of industries including manufacturing, oil and gas, food services and digital interactive media. She specializes in performing reviews of high-risk areas, being a technical resource and ensuring the team meets its deadlines.
Jon Legner
Jon is a data analytics senior manager at HORNE. He serves private and public companies by collaborating with them to use their data to solve problems and achieve their strategic objectives.
Lisa Nothstine
Lisa Nothstine is a senior manager in healthcare services at HORNE. She is a part of the firm’s physician services division where she provides consulting services to medical groups and hospitals related to compensation valuation for physician employment, medical director services, call coverage services, stipends, management services and other hospital/physician contractual relationships.
Allison Little
Allison Little is an outsourced CFO that works with medical practices to achieve goals and advance growth. She provides financial strategies, based on trend analysis and projections, to give insights and opportunities for success. She is recognized for improving financial performance by providing customized accounting solutions that include accounts payable, accounts receivable and billing, payroll, income allocation, key metrics and measurements, financial statements and forecasts.
Tony R. Jones
Tony R. Jones is a tax services senior manager in healthcare services for HORNE LLP. He provides tax services, specializing in employee benefits. Tony joined HORNE in 2004 and has more than 15 years of experience.
Amie W. Dean
Amie is a tax senior manager in HORNE’s healthcare services practice. She primarily provides tax and consulting services to nonprofit and healthcare entities, including hospitals, doctor groups and physicians.
Florence Bauer
Florence Bauer is a healthcare senior manager at HORNE and specializes in providing assurance and advisory services to clients in the healthcare industry.
Jarrod Barraza
Jarrod Barraza serves as a senior manager in the healthcare valuation service line at HORNE where his practice focuses on business valuation and transaction consulting services in the healthcare industry. Jarrod joined the firm in 2019. Prior to joining HORNE, Jarrod served as a manager in a national healthcare valuation and consulting firm and as an intern at a boutique business valuation and litigation support firm.
Karen L. Taylor
Karen serves as a director in franchise at HORNE where she specializes in providing client accounting and business advisory services to multi-unit restaurant franchisees. She focuses on financial statement analysis and operations consulting. Karen has a tax background as well, allowing her to integrate operational and tax consulting.
Thad Burke
Thad Burke is a senior tax manager at HORNE where he provides tax and consulting services for franchise clients. Thad joined HORNE in 2019 and has 10 years of experience in public accounting managing a variety of tax engagements focusing on large multistate entities and high wealth individuals. He also has experience in private accounting.
Roxanne Anderson
Roxanne Anderson is a service transformation team senior manager at HORNE where she serves as a business analyst and project manager. She is responsible for establishing and coordinating project deliverables, communicating project status with internal and external stakeholders and creating custom project workflows.
Greg Kurth
Greg Kurth is a manager in construction services at HORNE where he specializes in federal and multistate tax compliance, identifying tax planning opportunities and other financial and business advisory assistance.