School of Accountancy Awards Banquet

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On April 19, 2013, The George W. Daverio School of Accountancy Annual Awards Banquet was held to honor students, alumni and professionals.

Scholarship Recipients

Akron Tax Club Scholarship - Dare Heisterman
Allen S. Crum Accounting Scholarship – Travis Vance, Andrew Harpel, Mackenzee Culp, Kelly Pillar, Joshua Davis
Apple Growth Partners Scholarship - Samantha Anzaldi
Becker CPA Review Scholarship – Nathan Lieb, Allyson Foy, Ryan Wasylik, Jessica Adams, Jeffry Rennert, Christopher House, Lomenie Mongouo Akouala, Mei Luo
Bober, Markey, Fedorovich & Company Scholarship – Thomas Vinkovich
Bruner Cox Scholarship - Alex Fulop
CBIZ / Mayer Hoffman Mccann Scholarship – Joshua Imbeau
Cohen & Co. Scholarship Award – Allison Dunkerton
Crowe Horwath, LLP Outstanding Junior Accounting Student Scholarship - Andrew Pace
Daniel Joseph Maimone Scholarship – Danielle Shaffer, Jack Jennemann, Zachary Powers
Deloitte & Touche Alumni Scholarship – Alexis Burch
The Dennis Gordon Endowed Scholarship – Keith Armstrong
Donald and Jeri Dixon Scholarship – Jeremy Mika
Donald S. Hills Scholarship - Pellegrino Piermarini
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Horn Endowed Scholarship in Accounting – James Predmore, Rebecca Liguori, Nicholas DiDonato
Dr. Orviller. Keister Scholarship – Ryan Golen
Ernst & Young Endowed Accounting Leadership and Diversity Scholarship - Kaley Kringeta
Ernst & Young Endowed Accounting Leadership Scholarship in Honor of Mr. Alvin H. Lieberman – Danielle Hickman, Luke Lehar
Frank P. and Marie Bevilacqua Scholarship - Emily Shinko
Frank Moran Memorial Scholarship – Amber McLaughlin
Grant Thornton Scholarship – Anthony Jakubowski, Joseph Szijarto, Kaitlyn Becka
Huber & Virginia Mollenkopf Scholarship – Katie Wojciechowski, Nicholas Harig, Eric Simon, Amanda Gubenez, Robert Emery, Erik Kasminsky, Theodore Maleski, Maria Roth, Christina Gentile, Taylor Clawson
The J. M. Smucker Company Scholarship – Rachel Jones
JAB Book Scholarship - Emily King, Alyssa Lieb
JAB Need-Based Scholarship – Kellie Foster
Jacob and Dora Gordon Scholarship – Jared May, Hannah Wonder, Zachary Soehnlen, Ashley Miller
The James H. Kausch Memorial Scholarship in Accounting – Ashley Ackelson, Sarah Miksit
The James T. and Eva Miller – Ellie Bobo, Sarah Wright
Jo-Ann Stores, Inc. Scholarship – Taylor Smith
Julia Mikis Stell Scholarship – Ryan Bucy
Kohn-Diehl Memorial Scholarship – John Southam, Virginia Widmar
KPMG LLP Alumni Scholarship – Nathan Grob
KPMG Alumni Scholarship/Graduate Assistant - Juliana Reifsnyder
McGraw-Hill Scholarship – Macauley Scourfield
Meaden & Moore Ltd. Scholarship - Elysia Horstman
Novogradic Scholarship - April Pauken 
Ohio Society of CPAs Scholarship - Joshua Fick
PricewaterhouseCoopers Alumni Scholarship in Honor of David Manyuon – Daryl Hughes, Rayshawn Walton
Rea & Associates Scholarship – Richard Rader
Robert & Janet Mcminn Scholarship – Adam Guerrieri
RPM International Scholarship – Katherine Wallace
Sadhwani Scholarship - Timothy Hagenbaugh, Daniel Southam
School of Accountancy Advisory Board Scholarship – Steve Petrak, Lillian McMillan, Brad Millard
School of Accountancy Advisory Board BS/MS Accounting Scholarship – Samuel Smith, Alexis Burch, Jared May, Elizabeth Moyer, Elysia Horstman, James Predmore, Taylor Smith, Alyssa Lieb
School of Accountancy Advisory Board CPA Review Scholarship – Michelle George, Dominick Pariano
School of Accountancy Advisory Board Graduate Assistantship - Nick Angle, Vanessa Corral, Joshua Fick
School of Accountancy Professionalism & Leadership Scholarship - Jeffry Rennert
Skoda Minotti - Kyle Moncol
Slayman-Gallagher Scholarship - Alexandra Rhodes
SS&G Scholarship – Nataliya Vovk
Virginia Mollenkopf Scholarship Fund - Tirzah Harper
Tax Executives Institute Scholarship - Tai Stephens
 

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The faculty and staff of the George W. Daverio School of Accountancy wish to thank BCG & Co., our primary sponsor, as well as the following table sponsors:

  • Apple Growth Partners
  • BCG & Company
  • Bober Markey Fedorovich & Co.
  • Ernst & Young
  • Cohen & Company, Ltd.
  • The J.M. Smucker Company
  • Plante & Moran
  • Vince Kopy Scholarship Team 

2013 OUTSTANDING ALUM

CLASS OF ‘78

Tom FreemanRich Martorano graduated from the University of Akron in 1978 with a B.S. degree in Accounting. Rich, a native of Bridgewater, New Jersey, attended The University of Akron on a Herman Muehlstein Scholarship. During his time at the University, he was involved in many activities, including varsity baseball, Residence Hall Programming Board, the Accounting Association, and served as a Resident Assistant. He was a member of several scholastic honoraries including Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Mortar Board, and Omicron Delta Kappa. Rich also started his graduate program at The University of Akron, but ultimately received his MBA – Finance from the University of Memphis.

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2013 OUTSTANDING ALUM

CAMERON RUBINO, CLASS OF ‘98
ORTHOHELIX SURGICAL DESIGNS, INC.

Michael Kolk

Cameron Rubino is currently the VP of Finance at OrthoHelix Surgical Designs, Inc., a medical device company located in Medina, Ohio. Prior to OrthoHelix being acquired in October, 2012 he was the CFO of the company, responsible for overseeing the finance and accounting functions. Cameron was instrumental in the fundraising process for the company through both dilutive and non-dilutive financings and also managed all aspects of financial reporting since joining the company in 2007. As a member of the senior leadership team he helped growth OrthoHelix from $1 million in revenue in 2006 to nearly $30 million in 2012 resulting in an increase in the company’s valuation from $3 million to over $135 million during that period of time. The sale of OrthoHelix in 2012 resulted in a return to investors of over 6 times their invested capital and was one of the most significant venture capital exits in Northeast Ohio during the year. For his contribution to the success of OrthoHelix, Mr. Rubino was awarded CFO of the Year in 2011 for the medium-sized private company category by Crain’s Cleveland Business.

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2013 OUTSTANDING PART-TIME FACULTY

Andrew W. Bernat, J.D., The Sherwin-Williams Company

Tom FreemanAndrew Bernat currently serves as tax counsel for The Sherwin-Williams Company in Cleveland. Mr. Bernat’s primary responsibilities include assisting the company in the resolution of federal, state, and local tax controversies; researching, planning, and structuring the company's mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; and providing the company with a wide range of other tax and compliance advice. Previously, Mr. Bernat was an attorney with Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP where he handled federal, state and local tax controversies and transactional matters. For the University, he teaches Individual Taxation, Business Entity Taxation, Federal Taxation, Corporate Taxation I, and is the Site Coordinator for the University's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) clinic. He also serves on MTax Governance Boards and teaches Becker CPA Exam review courses.

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