Meet Our People
HORNE LLP
Firmwide Leadership
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.
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.
Joe Benigno
Joe is the Chief Information Officer for HORNE where he leads application development, infrastructure services and IT support for the firm. He manages business automation, data analytics, and new technology initiatives serving HORNE’s clients and staff. Joe is also a member of HORNE’s Executive Technology Committee.
Tara Chrisco
Tara is the director of people & organization development at HORNE. She is responsible for team member talent and potential over the entire worker life cycle - including talent acquisition, onboarding, learning, coaching and organization development. She also works with organizations that want to accelerate the growth of their workforce and business results.
Tracy B. Cunningham
Tracy serves as the director of human resources at HORNE where she oversees onboarding, employee relations, performance management, policy management and benefits administration. She also serves in a collaborative role in meeting strategic business objectives and culture change in the firm. Tracy serves on HORNE’s operations team and the Personnel Committee.
Stacey Gaines
Stacey serves as the marketing director for HORNE. She leads HORNE’s external branding, messaging, advertising and digital strategy initiatives. In addition, Stacey helps HORNE’s clients achieve growth by providing creative, strategic marketing solutions.
Ken McDonald
Ken currently serves HORNE as the director of audit quality. His responsibilities include audit support, pre-issuance report reviews, assurance training, internal inspections, regulatory compliance, risk management and quality control. His industry experience includes manufacturing, transportation, consumer products, construction, not-for-profit and healthcare.
Mary Clay Morgan
Mary Clay serves as General Counsel at HORNE where she provides advice to firm leadership and administration on a wide range of legal and compliance issues.
Mary Clay joined HORNE in 2021 with over 15 years of experience. Prior to joining HORNE, she was a partner at a national law firm where her practice was concentrated in employment discrimination, products liability, financial services, and commercial litigation matters, at the trial and appellate levels.
Lisa Taylor
Lisa is the director of business process solutions at HORNE where she leads a team of highly skilled project management professionals and business process analysts who work closely with client service teams and program directors to plan, design and implement successful CDBG and PA programs. She also provides project policy analysis to ensure compliance, designs effective project assessment tools to facilitate transparency, and builds strong teams to support project initiatives.
Terry Traylor
Terry serves HORNE as the director of finance. Using his background in assurance, business valuation and tax compliance, he manages the day-to-day financial operations for HORNE.
Terry joined HORNE in 1996 and has more than 30 years of experience including audit, tax and consulting engagements. His experience spans a wide range of industries including manufacturing, merchandising, health care and financial institutions.
