WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
March 18, 2020

In response to the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), United Way of the National Capital Area (United Way NCA) today announced the activation of its Emergency Assistance Fund, making available an initial $50,000, to promote the health, education and financial stability of our community, especially those residents who have or will be impacted by restrictions and closures of schools, businesses, and community institutions designed to slow the spread of the virus. Pepco was first to respond with a $100,000 investment and are being joined by M&T Bank who has also committed resources.

“As businesses and agencies across the region undergo temporary closures and other restrictions, much of the region’s workforce will experience severe reduction in income that they desperately rely on to live,” said Rosie Allen-Herring, president and CEO, United Way of the National Capital Area. “These emergency resources will enable our nonprofit partners to meet the increased demand for economic assistance and access to food and other basic necessities. By first increasing capacity to these non-profit organizations, we want residents to know their United Way stands by them through this crisis.”

United Way NCA is calling on the community—both corporate partners and individuals in the region—to join them in fighting for the health, education and financial stability of our community, including those impacted by COVID-19, by matching its investment or making a donation.

“At Pepco, our priority is to support every customer to make ends meet during tough times and we are proud to be the first to contribute to the Emergency Assistance Fund to do just that,” said Dave Velazquez, president and CEO of Pepco Holdings. “In addition to our own programs, we work day-in and day-out with community and government partners to get funding into the hands of those customers who need it most. This fund and partnership between the United Way NCA is a great example of coming together to support the residents and customers that make our communities thrive.”

In the weeks and months ahead, the Emergency Assistance Fund will provide additional capacity to community-based organizations in the region to deliver economic assistance and access to vital food and basic need supplies to the thousands of school-age children who depend on their school’s meal programs and workers in the region who already have and will be impacted by the temporary loss of income. United Way NCA’s Emergency Assistance Fund may also be deployed to strengthen the region’s ability to prepare for and respond to a variety of health and other emergencies, as well as to support programs and initiatives that are focused on fighting for the health, education and financial stability of our community.

Initially, United Way NCA’s Emergency Assistance Fund will be directed as follows:

• Martha’s Table to support food distribution throughout the DMV and 350 families around wage assistance and food insecurity.
• Northern Virginia Family Service to support their Hunger Resource Center’s food distribution. They are expanding their services to target over 500 school-aged children and their families in their catchment area.
• Community Service Agency to support affected union workers and their families through emergency wage assistance.
• Capital Area Food Bank to support their food distribution through pop-up markets in the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
• Arlington Food Assistance Center to support individuals and families with their food and nutrition needs through distribution of pre-bagged groceries.
• Manna Food Center to meet the nutrition needs of MCPS students and families impacted by school closures and food distribution and delivery to those in need throughout Montgomery County.

“We are grateful for the support from United Way NCA,” said Kim R. Ford, president & CEO, Martha’s Table. “As always, we remain deeply committed to putting the health, safety, and wellbeing of our children, team, and community first. It is exactly in times like these that our city needs leaders like Martha’s Table to stand up and do what is right to support our neighbors, and we are proud to stand alongside United Way NCA and our community in this effort.”

United Way NCA is also partnering with Gepetto Catering to help identify individuals in need, from older citizens who aren’t able to cook and grocery shop to employees who are suddenly out of work, to receive high quality and nutritious meals through its newly launched “Send a Meal” program.

“We are uniquely positioned to convene resources and partners to help during this time of need,” said Allen-Herring. “We will continue to partner and coordinate with the funding community such as the Greater Washington Community Foundation and others to provide support. We are calling on the public to join us in caring for our neighbors in need and to donate to the Emergency Assistance Fund.”

For more information about United Way NCA Emergency Assistance Fund, visit http://www.UnitedWayNCA.org/help.

About United Way of the National Capital Area

United Way of the National Capital Area fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in the National Capital community. United Way NCA has been improving lives by creating measurable impact in the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia, and Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties for more than 45 years. For more information about United Way of the National Capital Area, visit UnitedWayNCA.org.

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“These experienced leaders join the Harvest board at a very exciting time,” said Doug Fritz, F2 Strategy. “I’m interested to see how Harvest’s vision to help financial institutions create positive, life-long financial outcomes for their customers manifests over this coming year.”

SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)
March 18, 2020

Harvest, the leading provider of integrated savings and wealth solutions for the financial industry, announced today that it has appointed three new members to its board of directors: Lynn Roche, former EVP of the Banking Division at FIS Global, Susan Hawkins, Head of Enterprise Payments at TD Bank, and Jennifer Grancio, former Managing Director at BlackRock.

“We are thrilled to welcome Lynn, Susan, and Jennifer as new directors to the Harvest board,” said Drew Sievers, Harvest’s CEO. “Their complementary set of skills and invaluable experience further Harvest’s strategy of seamlessly linking retail savings and wealth solutions for banks, credit unions, and enterprise wealth firms. We are excited that they chose Harvest and look forward to their valuable perspectives and contributions.”

Lynn Roche is former EVP of the Banking Division at FIS Global. Lynn has accumulated more than 30 years of industry expertise from running a $2.5B Banking Division with more than 8,000 employees to managing core banking, wealth and retirement, digital, image, output solutions, and managed IT and network services divisions. Lynn will be replacing Scott Stiegler, SVP Corporate Finance as the FIS director on Harvest’s board.

Susan Hawkins is currently Head of Enterprise Payments at TD bank in Toronto. Prior to her role at TD Bank, Susan spent 20 years at Metavante and FIS, running eBanking and Digital Services. As as early pioneer in digital banking and payments, Susan has over 20 years of experience developing, maintaining, and growing customer-facing bank technologies.

Jennifer Grancio currently runs her own consultancy, Grancio Capital, in which she works directly with CEOs and founders to drive revenue growth and build new industry leaders. Jennifer most recently spent 15 years at BlackRock as a Managing Director, overseeing iShares distribution across Europe, North America, and worldwide. As one of the founding team members of iShares ETFs, Jennifer has deep wealth industry experience managing P&Ls, strategy, business development, sales, marketing and partnerships.

“These experienced leaders join the Harvest board at a very exciting time,” said Doug Fritz, F2 Strategy. “Customer expectations are increasingly driving bank leaders and wealth managers to integrate digital technologies across their entire ecosystem, and Harvest is enabling financial institutions to do just that. Across the industry, I think we can expect to see more unified solutions along a customer’s full financial journey from savings to wealth, and I’m interested to see how Harvest’s vision to help financial institutions create positive, life-long financial outcomes for their customers manifests over this coming year.”

Harvest’s other board directors include Kelly Rodriques, CEO at Forge and Managing Partner at Operative Capital, Rob Rueckert, Managing Director at Sorensen Capital Partners, and Jay Coppoletta, Chief Corporate Development and Legal Officer at PEAK6 Investments.

ABOUT HARVEST SAVINGS & WEALTH TECHNOLOGIES – Harvest Savings & Wealth Technologies delivers integrated, enterprise-grade digital savings and investment technology to banks, credit unions, trust companies, and other financial institutions. The firm’s technology was architected and engineered to deliver cutting edge, end-to- end digital solutions that unify and automate a bank’s savings, wealth and trust solutions. Harvest supports multiple custodial and trust systems. Harvest is a technology company and has no direct-to-consumer digital advisory offering. For more information, visit http://www.harvestsw.com.

CONTACT:

Jennifer Wu

Harvest Savings & Wealth Technologies

415-366-6583

pr@harvestsw.com

http://www.harvestsw.com

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March 18, 2020

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“We are very proud of our members who have brought their firms to this level of excellence and also continue to push for continuous improvement,” said Alan Deichler, president of CPAmerica. “We want to congratulate our firms on all of their achievements.”

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (PRWEB)
March 17, 2020

Accounting Today, the premier publication of the certified public accounting industry, has named several CPAmerica, Inc. firms as national and regional leaders in their March 2020 Top 100 listing. Three firms were featured in the Top 100, two firms were recognized as firms to watch, and 16 firms were recognized as regional leaders.

“We are very proud of our members who have brought their firms to this level of excellence and also continue to push for continuous improvement,” said Alan Deichler, president of CPAmerica. “We want to congratulate our firms on all of their achievements.”

Frazier & Deeter, LLC, headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., ranked 51 in the Top 100. Frazier & Deeter, also a leader in the Southeast region, saw revenue growth by almost 13 percent and their staff by 16 percent. Since joining CPAmerica in 1989, Frazier & Deeter has grown more than 98 million in revenue.

Honkamp Krueger & Co., P.C., headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa, ranked 62 in the Top 100, and was also recognized as a regional leader in the Midwest region.

Aldrich, headquartered in Salem, Ore., ranked 80 in the Top 100. Aldrich, also a leader in the West region, saw revenue growth of more than eight percent in the past year. In 2019, the firm acquired a technology firm called Lighthouse Information Systems, elected a new CEO to take office in 2020, and rolled out several new employee benefits, including a sabbatical program.

Cg Tax, Audit & Advisory, headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., was recognized as a regional leader in the Mid-Atlantic region and saw revenue growth of more than nine percent.

Cooper Norman CPAs, headquartered in Idaho Falls, Idaho, was recognized as a regional leader in the Mountain region and saw revenue growth of more than nine percent.

EFPR Group, LLP, headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., was recognized as a regional leader in the Mid-Atlantic region.

GRF CPAs & Advisors, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., was recognized as a firm to watch, and as a regional leader in the Capital region and saw revenue growth of more than 10 percent.

Gollob Morgan Peddy PC, headquartered in Tyler, Texas, was recognized as a regional leader in the Southwest region and saw revenue growth of more than seven percent.

Gray, Gray & Gray, LLP, headquartered in Canton, Mass., was recognized as a regional leader in the New England region.

Kushner LaGraize, L.L.C., headquartered in Metairie, La., was recognized as a regional leader in the Gulf Coast region.

Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C., headquartered in Holyoke, Mass., was recognized as a regional leader in the New England region.

Maxwell Locke & Ritter LLP, headquartered in Austin, Texas, was recognized as a firm to watch, and as a regional leader in the Southwest region and saw revenue growth of more than 11 percent.

McGowen Hurst Clark Smith, headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, was recognized as a regional leader in the Midwest region.

Robinson, Grimes & Co., headquartered in Columbus, Ga., was recognized as a regional leader in the Southeast region.

VonLehman & Company, Inc., headquartered in Fort Wright, Ky., was recognized as a regional leader in the Southeast region.

Wegner CPAs, headquartered in Madison, Wis., was recognized as a regional leader in the Great Lakes region and saw revenue growth of more than 13 percent.

For more information on Accounting Today’s 2020 Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders, please visit: https://www.accountingtoday.com/the-top-100-firms-and-regional-leaders.

About CPAmerica, Inc.:

An accounting association made up of independent certified public accounting firms that built on four key goals: to continuously improve; to make more money; to strengthen relationships among member firms; and to bring prestige to firms both domestically and internationally. As a member of the eighth largest global accounting network Crowe Global, CPAmerica expands to over 283 independent accounting and advisory services firms in 130 countries, and has a combined firm revenue of $4.4 billion. Learn more about CPAmerica at http://www.cpamerica.org.

Andrew Banquer

“Andy joins QuisLex with a wealth of leadership and decades of legal counsel and ALSP experience. We are thrilled to have his expertise as part of our executive team, and with him on board, we will continue to expand our success in innovation, operations and business development.”

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
March 17, 2020

QuisLex, the leading alternative legal service provider, announced today that it has appointed Andrew Banquer as vice president of corporate solutions. Banquer will be responsible for managing corporate clients and will add his skills to the substantial level of expertise at QuisLex. QuisLex provides corporate clients industry-leading services including managed document review, contract management, compliance services, legal spend management and legal operations consulting.

“Andy joins QuisLex with a wealth of leadership and decades of legal counsel and ALSP experience,” states QuisLex CEO Ram Vasudevan. “We are thrilled to have his expertise as part of our executive team, and with Andy on board, we will continue to expand our success in innovation, operations and business development.”

Banquer has championed alternative legal services, first as a client with Hewlett-Packard and then as a designer and manager of solutions to enable clients to turn their strategic objectives into impactful and measurable projects and activities. He also has over 20 years of experience working in-house with HP and Agilent Technologies, where he managed commercial legal teams in the U.S. and Asia Pacific. Banquer has extensive experience working with general counsels, commercial practice leads, and legal operations teams re-architecting and managing legal service models to deliver consistent quality results more efficiently and cost-effectively.

“I am excited to join QuisLex as vice president of corporate solutions,” Banquer says. “Having built solutions and systems from scratch, I look forward to creating winning outcomes for QuisLex clients. QuisLex has an amazing roster of top-notch talent, and I am proud to now be an integral part of the team.”

Banquer earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and has a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth. He will be based out of QuisLex’s San Francisco office.

About QuisLex

QuisLex is an award-winning legal services provider that specializes in managed document review, contract management, compliance services, legal spend management and legal operations consulting. Our full-time highly trained attorneys, process experts, legal technologists, statisticians and linguists work closely with our clients to reduce cost, mitigate risk and maximize efficiency. QuisLex is regularly acknowledged as a leader in the legal services industry and proud to be recognized by the Financial Times as an FT Intelligent Business 35, ACC as an ACC Value Champion, Chambers and Partners as a Band 1 Legal Process Outsourcing Provider, New York Law Journal as a Top Managed Document Review Services Provider and the IACCM as its Outstanding Service Provider for contract management solutions. To learn more, visit http://www.quislex.com.

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NCHL CEO LeAnn Swanson

LeAnn’s leadership style is a great fit for our organization. She is an experienced and thoughtful leader excited to connect with our members, staff, and Board.

CHICAGO (PRWEB)
March 17, 2020

The National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) is pleased to announce the appointment of LeAnn Swanson as chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately. Swanson is a collaborative, strategic, and effective leader who brings more than 20 years of healthcare experience, working in the areas of nonprofit, government, healthcare, and education.

“In addition to her growth-oriented track record, LeAnn’s leadership style is a great fit for our organization. She is an experienced and thoughtful leader excited to connect with our members, staff, and Board,” NCHL Board Chair Tim Rice said. “LeAnn’s passion and experience will enhance the results and commitment NCHL has to further drive evidence-based leadership practices.”

In 2019, the NCHL Board of Directors voted to hire a full-time CEO, acknowledging it is in an ideal position to influence and lead in the marketplace, guided by its fundamental tenant that great leadership drives quality healthcare and improved outcomes.

Andrew N. Garman, PsyD, who has served as NCHL’s part-time CEO for the past nine years will continue providing research and facilitation services across many of NCHL’s innovative programs. “Andy’s leadership has been instrumental in helping us achieve our mission, vision, and values, as we deliver exceptional support and resources to our member organizations,” Rice added.

Previously, Swanson served as the executive director of the Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance (The Alliance) from 2013 to 2020, where she was able to transitioned the organization into a self-sustained, professional partnership- supported entity. The Alliance provides collaborative leadership and professional education support to 58 organ procurement organizations and more than 200 hospitals and transplant centers.

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NCHL is the leader in advancing evidence-based leadership practices to drive quality care and improved outcomes. Through its three premier membership programs, including the Leadership Excellence Networks (LENS), US Cooperative of International Patient Programs (USCIPP) and National Council on Administrative Fellowships (NCAF), members are supported through collaboration, education, and research. These member benefits serve as a catalyst for organizations to find and apply leadership solutions that drive achievement of organizational goals as they pursue organizational excellence. Click here to learn more about NCHL.

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