Accountancy
KPM CPAs PC hired staff accountants Shane Dotson and Christy Wilson to work in the areas of general tax, audit and accounting engagements. Dotson earned a bachelor’s in accountancy from Missouri State University, and Wilson received a master’s in accountancy from MSU and worked for eight years with Sexton and Associates CPAs LLC in Mount Vernon.
Banking & Finance
Jim Brown, a retired partner with BKD LLP was selected to serve on the seven-member Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Brown will serve a seven-year term beginning July 1. A CPA and certified government financial manager, Brown was a partner at BKD for 25 years before retiring in May.
Ken Roberts joined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s Springfield office as a vice president and financial adviser. With 16 years of experience in financial services, he serves high-net-worth clients, individuals and businesses with a focus on retirement, wealth and portfolio management.
Old Missouri Bank promoted April Smith to consumer loan officer and executive loan assistant. She is responsible for consumer lending, not including staff oversight, and for completing executive duties for the president and chief lending officer. Smith has 20 years of banking experience, 11 of which have been with OMB.
Jeff Layman, senior vice president and wealth adviser at The Layman Group, received the portfolio manager designation from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Layman has worked with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney since 2002.
Construction
James Carson, vice president of Carson-Mitchell Inc., was named 2012 chairman of the board of The Builders’ Association, a 900-member commercial contractor organization. Carson, who has a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Missouri-Columbia, has been a member of the association’s executive board since 2008.
Education
Robert Pavlowsky, MSU geography professor and director of the Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute, received a $28,033 grant from the Storm Water Services Division of the Springfield Public Works Department. The grant will support storm-water testing and analysis under a five-year monitoring project to assist the city in complying with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Missouri Department of Natural Resources regulations related to the Clean Water Act.
Government
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Doug Harpool, a partner with Baird, Lightner, Millsap & Harpool PC in Springfield, and Nick Myers, a certified public accountant in Joplin, to the 10-member bipartisan apportionment commission that will set new boundaries for the 34 districts in the Missouri Senate.
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