Meet Our People
HORNE LLP
Partners
Neil Forbes
Having an up close and personal understanding of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, I know the impact that disaster recovery programs can have in helping those who can do little to help themselves. The empathy HORNE brings to a project shows in how we go about treating applicants and delivering programs with focus and skill. We ensure that our governmental clients and the citizens needing assistance are dealt with as valued customers, not simply a number.
Jeffrey N. Aucoin
I am passionate about helping clients manage their financial reporting, while mitigating risks. This allows them to focus on managing their operations, while helping their customers. We also provide services to help clients pay vendors and team members, fulfill various regulatory obligations, and make strategic, anticipatory decisions. Throughout my career, I have been dedicated to helping business owners resolve complex business problems.
Rud Blumentritt
Healthcare is going through tremendous transformation and clients need us now more than ever, particularly as it relates to physician/hospital integration. In helping our clients structure physician/hospital arrangements, we are often in a unique position to point out areas of concern and suggest workable solutions that are sound and compliant with healthcare regulatory rules, so clients can avoid potential severe, far-reaching penalties.
Joel K. Bobo
I truly enjoy contractors. This industry is filled with people who are hard working, loyal and family-oriented. We help contractors accomplish important tasks that strengthen their business, including helping them maximize bonding capacity, understand their internal cost structure, increase profitability while keeping tax burden at a minimum, and create succession planning. I work hard to be as attentive, loyal, knowledgeable and resourceful for my clients as they are for their own.
Dee Boykin Jr.
The key to helping our clients succeed is to always approach each client relationship with a strong vested interest in them, above everything else. I treat each client's business as if it were my own, giving it my full attention and effort as we provide a complete outsourced solution for their accounting, tax, and consulting needs. HORNE becomes an integral part of their team and our role transcends the typical client-CPA relationship, which is really satisfying.
Rusty Butcher
For middle market and public companies, opportunities often come with a host of complexities. We are here to help anticipate market factors and internal challenges so they are well informed and ready to take control of their future. Having worked with institutions of varying size and complexity for more than 20 years, I bring commitment and earned knowledge to every institution I serve.
Cathy Denman
I have personally been through disaster and offer empathy and understanding to those working toward recovery. In the aftermath of disaster, the people, agencies, and states facilitating recovery efforts receive requests from numerous different directions. Helping people navigate these devastating and confusing times gives me a great deal of personal satisfaction.
Marsha H. Dieckman
My passion is serving others by collaborating for solutions. Helping states create solutions to maximize CARES Act funding aligns with this passion. COVID-19 has presented opportunities and challenges for us all. My background of solving problems for individuals and business owners who are navigating complex tax regulations transitions well to creating diverse teams with broad experiences to help our clients navigate these challenging times.
Josh Edwards
M&A transactions come with high personal risk. We never lose sight of that reality or the fact that our clients are people—not projects. It’s our responsibility to help them make educated, confident decisions. Whether we are working on the buy-side or the sell-side of a transaction, we help spot concerns unique to each deal and provide the information and insight needed to ease uncertainties and keep the process moving.
Samir El Hage
With over 15 years of experience in project and program management, I am passionate about helping our clients ensure project success. Working on various projects such as road infrastructure, outpatient clinic facilities, hospital facilities, academic facilities, residential multi-story buildings, office buildings, and coastal facilities, I bring a wide array of knowledge to help clients and stakeholders manage complex processes and solve challenging problems.
Patrick C. Gough
Public and middle market companies face unique challenges, often dependent upon their industry or company goals. Our team provides a quick, expert response and accurate, quality work to address critical issues and keep our clients safe and successful. I have spent my career serving large private companies across multiple disciplines, so I’m familiar with the challenges that they face. I have a passion to support management on their journeys toward seeing their companies meet growth goals.
Joe Green
Companies that are looking to expand through an equity raise, merger, or organic growth face unique challenges and urgency. We work alongside clients to manage deadlines and stressful situations for them, so they can focus on their future. It’s why we have such strong relationships with our clients - I genuinely want to help them succeed. They trust that I am going to answer their questions quickly and support them with answers based on experience.
Anita Hamilton
I am a tax partner specialized in business planning, succession planning and estate planning for closely held businesses and high net worth families. By guiding clients through estate and gift, retirement and tax strategies, we help them meet business goals and plan for near term and future needs. I have more than 25 years of experience with tax planning around individual tax, estate, gift and retirement planning.
Joey Havens
I believe leadership is about serving others and helping those around you see and reach their full potential. That belief shapes HORNE. Our people have purpose and a genuine commitment to service. I use this passion to provide encouragement, guidance and leadership to our clients, team members and communities. Clients know that our passion for service and expertise is unrivaled. We work to make a difference for their businesses and their lives.
Scott Keller
I am passionate about helping our clients navigate complex legislative and regulatory challenges surrounding various federal programs. With more than a decade of experience using the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for disaster recovery purposes, I help HORNE identify program improvements that can survive HUD oversight and assist grantees in streamlining operations to increase organizational effectiveness.
Lee B. Klein III
The construction industry is constantly evolving and contractors need a visionary partner to help guide them to successfully compete, grow and plan for the future. I not only serve clients by delivering on opportunities and helping them solve today’s problems, but also have the foresight to help them anticipate and prevent tomorrow’s. For me, delivering value is about the obstacles conquered and the ability to help my clients see what’s possible.
Jonathan Krebs
Our team isn’t afraid to get in the trenches to help governments tackle their greatest challenges. Anyone can identify problems. We bring unparalleled experience and a total commitment to working alongside our clients. I bring a broad scope of experience to the work we do, and a deep commitment to our clients to help them solve their most demanding challenges and achieve success.
Bryan McDonald
I am wired for the job I do. Complex changes, evolving compliance requirements and public service - what could be better? Our Government Services team brings a depth of knowledge and experience, coupled with common sense counsel. I work directly with state and local governments to solve funding and compliance issues associated with large funding streams, and to create frameworks for systematic reviews of program accountability.
Robert Miller
Bob Miller is a partner at HORNE where he leads the public & middle market tax team, and also serves as HORNE’s firmwide director of tax. He specializes in helping businesses navigate the complex tax environment.
Kade Moody
The healthcare industry impacts lives and communities. We help caregivers navigate the complexities of financial reporting and compliance, particularly as it relates to financing agreements, to help them maintain the cash flow sources necessary to accomplish their business goals. As a member of the firm’s Board of Directors, the leader of our Healthcare Assurance practice and the firm’s Designated Governmental Audit Quality Partner, I am passionate about meeting the needs of clients we serve.
Tim Morgan
Tim is a financial institutions partner at HORNE where he helps banks, credit unions and other financial services companies with external audit, internal audit and risk management solutions. He specializes in identifying process improvements that are practical and solutions-oriented to help position clients for success.
Emily Parrish
We exist to support and implement our clients’ mission and goals—collaborating with them as a strategic partner focused on delivering an unrivaled client experience. Throughout my career, I’ve served clients across a number of industries through accounting and assurance services and financial statement analysis. I am passionate about collaborating with clients to meet their goals, especially as they address strategic growth needs, and solving problems before they happen.
Michael R. Sassano
Franchise requires a very particular set of knowledge, experience and accounting skills. I help clients succeed by providing industry-specific experience, insights and perspective along with a proven, dedicated accounting practices structure. I am a former top restaurant brand executive and 25 store franchise owner of Domino’s Pizza. Clients know that I can support them with relationships, proven strategies, best practices and insights that come from real industry experience.
Jason Saulters
We are privileged to serve our clients as a strategic partner, guiding them through challenging franchise industry environments and decisions on their way to achieving their full potential. HORNE’s service offerings are unique to franchise accounting. Our team combines the broad technical expertise of a CPA firm with innovative technology solutions, fresh industry insights, data benchmarking, and best practices advisory. And we do it with an unrivaled focus on client relationships.
Mike Skinner
My goal is to help clients manage the business risks that keep them up at night. We’re a team of IT assurance, cybersecurity, and digital forensics experts. It’s our task to help clients leverage new technology by making sure they have the insights they need to safeguard their business, customer data, and reputation. I work with clients to help them manage information technology challenges like regulatory compliance, information security, internal controls, and business solution implementation.
Anna Stroble
We exist to support and implement our clients’ recovery visions by delivering a level of client service that is unrivaled in the industry. We provide consistent, exceptional client service through our in-depth industry knowledge, vast experience and unmatched dedication and responsiveness to our clients’ needs. Fueled by our own experiences with natural disasters, we are keenly aware of the difficult journey to restoration and have witnessed communities transformed by federal recovery programs.
Dustin Taylor
At HORNE, we go further than a traditional client-CPA relationship — we help franchisees meet their long-term goals through a strategic partnership. I value those relationships, and with a seat at their table, I’m able to provide insights, collaboration and ongoing dialogue throughout the year to help clients mitigate taxes and plan for the future.
Alethia Thomas
Alethia is a partner in government services at HORNE LLP. She is responsible for developing intake and eligibility policies and procedures, providing quality assurance and quality control, as well as providing technical support to staff members.
Alethia joined HORNE in 2011. She has more than five years of experience in disaster recovery on the federal, state, and local levels.
Bruce Walt
I love to share new ideas and perspectives and dig in with clients and prospects to solve their biggest challenges and problems. I am passionate about the client experience—from how someone becomes aware of the firm, to how the firm presents itself as the client makes the decision to hire, to the engagement itself, to the results achieved and to the post-engagement follow up. The client experience is more than service. I work with our teams to make every single client touch a great experience.
Katherine G. Watts
Everything we do centers on helping our clients achieve their mission and thrive financially in the midst of the healthcare storm. With so many changes happening, that includes collaborating to develop integration strategies, designing fair compensation formulas, helping clients take steps to improve quality, providing financial modeling, meeting needs for compliance and risk management, advising clients through consolidations, or offering counsel to achieve culture change.
Wes T. Winborne
My clients come to me for peace of mind. Whether they face tasks like audit and tax support, internal control reviews, or guidance for issues like job costing, bonding or computer consulting, I am dedicated, experienced and ready to do what it takes. Our team knows construction and the financials behind it. To help you focus on your building your business, we focus on taking care of accounting and offering helpful guidance.
