The Arizona State Board of Accountancy is established by A.R.S. § 32-702 and
consists of seven board members who are residents of Arizona and who are appointed by
the Governor for five-year terms. Five members are Certified Public Accountants
and two are public members.
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John C. Sizer, Jr., CPA
President
Term expires July 3, 2015 |
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John is a 1984 graduate of Arizona State University. He has over 25 years of public
accounting experience, all with Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”). He is the
Partner-in-Charge of Deloitte’s Assurance and Advisory Services Practice in Arizona.
In this role, he is responsible for all operations and resources deployed to Deloitte’s
audit clients in Arizona. John has served on Deloitte’s Finance and Audit Committee and
Deloitte’s Strategic Investments Committee. He now currently is on the Board of The
Deloitte Foundation.
John has a broad range of experience and serves as the audit partner for various large
Arizona based public companies. He has a deep knowledge of SEC rules and reporting
requirements. His expertise includes public offerings, business combinations, SEC
reporting and compliance, and other business-advisory services.
Throughout his career John has remained active in the community, including currently
serving on the Arizona State University (ASU) School of Accountancy Advisory Committee,
ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business Dean’s Council of 100 Board of Directors, Corporate
Advisor to the Phoenix Board of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and
Accounting, and member of the Audit Committee of Greater Phoenix Economic Council.
In 2008, John was one of the recipients of the inaugural “Centers of Influence” Awards
presented by Arizona Business Magazine to honor the state’s top 10 most influential
accountants. The recipients of this award were acknowledged for demonstrating an
extraordinary influence within their companies, their industry, their business clients
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Douglas Kimball, Public Member
Secretary
Term expires July 3, 2017 |
Douglas Kimball has over 30 years of executive experience in finance, accounting,
operations, administration and mergers/acquisitions in both public and private
companies. He is a former CPA and began his career in the accounting profession.
He spent eight years in the audit department at Touche Ross & Co. in Boston, now
Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Kimball has for the last six years served as Vice President
of Kleven Construction, a Tempe based civil contractor licensed in Arizona, Nevada
and California. He graduated from Dartmouth College and received his Masters of
Science in Accounting and received his Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
from Northeastern University. Mr. Kimball serves on the city of Chandler’s
Industrial Development Board and is active in various local civic, charitable and
community associations.
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Alan R. Augenstein, CPA
Treasurer
Term expires July 3, 2016
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Alan R. Augenstein is a CPA and
currently is providing consulting and expert witness services. Mr. Augenstein was with PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP (pwc) for 38 years. He most recently
managed pwc’s assurance practice in Phoenix where he had practiced since 2003. Mr. Augenstein began his career in Pittsburgh and has practiced from offices in Cincinnati, Ohio,
New York, New York and Kansas City, Missouri before relocating to Phoenix. While in
New York City, he served as a technical consulting partner in the firm's
SEC Services group in the national office. Mr. Augenstein has been the lead audit
engagement partner or audit quality review partner for many publicly traded and
private companies in many different industries. In addition to his professional
activities, Mr. Augenstein is active in community service and currently serves as Chairman of the Audit
Committee of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Arizona. He is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State
University. |
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LeRoy M. Gaintner, CPA
Term expires July 3, 2018
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Having spent twenty-five years as audit and managing partner of Gaintner Bandler Reed &
Peters PLC, in Phoenix, Arizona, LeRoy Gaintner also serves as expert witness in
controversies involving economic losses and in accountant’s malpractice cases. LeRoy’s
professional career started with Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG). He became an audit
partner in the Phoenix accounting firm Gallant Farrow & Greene, spent several years in
greater Phoenix real estate development, and returned to public accounting in 1988 with
what is now Gaintner Bandler Reed & Peters. Mr. Gaintner served as a trustee and past
chair of the Western Association of Accounting Firms – an association of public accounting
firms dedicated to sharing resources in best practices of accounting firm management and
in assuring best practices in delivery of audit, accounting and tax services. In the
community, he has served numerous organizations. A long time board member and past chair
of the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation, he chaired and was treasurer of the
successful Maricopa Colleges bond campaigns in 1995 and 2005. He has been active in
supporting the cultural environment in Phoenix through long-term involvement in Phoenix
Men’s Arts Council providing financial support to the Phoenix Art Museum. Additionally,
LeRoy serves on the Judicial Performance Review of Maricopa County, which facilitates
performance reviews of Superior and Appellate Court Judges. Mr. Gaintner also has served
the accounting profession through the Arizona Society of CPA’s, having chaired the
Reporting Standards Committee, the Continuing Education Committee, and the Litigation
Services Committee, and as a prior board member of the Arizona CPA Foundation for
Education and Research. A graduate of Occidental College, Mr. Gaintner also holds Masters
Degrees from Arizona State University in Accounting and in Mathematics. |
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Julie S. Klewer, CPA
Term expires July 3, 2019 |
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Julie Klewer is the partner in charge of the audit and assurance practice of LUDWIG KLEWER & CO. PLLC in Tucson,
Arizona. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Arizona State University in 1988 and began her
career in Tucson with Coopers & Lybrand. Julie’s 20 years of experience in the public accounting arena has
spanned the range from small, local firms to large, international firms. In 1999, Julie briefly put her public
accounting career on hold and received her MBA degree from the University of Arizona. She subsequently co-founded
Marketing Intelligence, LLC, a Tucson-based marketing research and strategic consulting business. In 2002, she
made the decision to resume her accounting career. Throughout her career, Julie has taught undergraduate courses
in marketing and business administration, as well as graduate courses in accounting, at the University of
Arizona. She served as Chair of the 2006 Tucson Heart Ball benefiting the American Heart Association, and she is
a recent past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants. |
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Layne R. Simmons, CPA
Term expires July 3, 2017 |
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Layne Simmons is the manager and co-owner of Jaffa Simmons, PLLC, located in Mesa,
Arizona. Layne has over 27 years of experience working for both public accounting
firms and for large international publically traded corporations. Prior to joining
Jaffa Simmons, PLLC, Layne was the Vice President of Tax at Waste Services, Inc.
He also served as the Executive Director of Tax at Viad Corp., and prior to his
association with Viad, Layne was with the Phoenix office of Deloitte & Touche. Layne
has served in leadership positions in several organizations including serving as
Chairman of the Board of the Arizona Society of CPAs, as a council member of the
American Institute of CPAs, and as President of the Arizona Chapter of Tax Executives
Institute. He also chaired the Arizona Society of CPA’s Tax Legislation Committee,
where as committee chairman, he spoke before the Arizona Senate Finance Committee, the
Arizona House Ways and Means Committee and Arizona House Commerce Committee explaining
proposed tax legislation. Layne also served 3 years on the tax advisory committee of
the Arizona State Board of Accountancy. Layne holds a Master of Science in Accounting,
specializing in Taxation. |
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Gary L. Freed, Public Member
Term expires July 3, 2019 |
Gary Freed has in excess of 35 years of experience in finance and accounting with primarily
public accounting firms. He is a former Arizona CPA and a retired California CPA, who began
his career in public accounting by working six years in the audit departments of the Los
Angeles and Phoenix offices of Arthur Andersen & Co. Then, after one year as the Chief
Financial Officer of a local holding company, Mr. Freed joined a local CPA firm and was
involved in auditing, accounting, tax and consulting as well as litigation support services
and conducting peer reviews. During his 18 years with Zolondek, Strassels, Greene & Freed,
PC, he also had contracts to provide CPA investigations for the Arizona State Board of
Accountancy. Upon the merger of his firm with Clifton Gunderson, LLP, Mr. Freed was
exclusively involved in providing litigation support services and business valuation services
and he has testified in excess of 60 times as an expert witness. He retired from daily
practice in 2011 and has continued to be active as a leader in various community service
organizations. Mr. Freed was named City of Mesa, "Outstanding Young Man of the Year" in 1990
by the Mesa Leadership Alumni Association and was selected for the "Public Service Award" in
1996 by the Arizona Society of CPA’s. He was a member of various committees of the Arizona
Society of CPA’s and was also a member for 10 years of the Arizona State Board of
Accountancy’s Law Review Committee, serving as its chair for 5 years. Mr. Freed graduated
with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration Majoring in Accounting, with High
Distinction from The University of Arizona in 1978.
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