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MEDIA ADVISORY

March 20, 2008

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Robert N. Brooks, Executive DirectorLisa R. Hearne, Communications Manager

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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69 APPROVED AS CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

Raleigh-On March 19, 2008, the North Carolina State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners

approved 69 applicants for licensure as Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) in the State of North Carolina.

Applicants for licensure are required to pass the Uniform CPA Examination and satisfy the education, work

experience, and moral character requirements of the Board. A CPA certified to practice in North Carolina must

annually renew his or her license and complete at least 40 hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE),

including two or four hours of ethics. North Carolina has more than 17,000 actively licensed CPAs.

Established by Chapter 93 of the North Carolina General Statutes, the State Board of CPA Examiners is anoccupational licensing board that grants certificates of qualification as CPAs to those .individuals who meet thelegal requirements. The Board also adopts and enforces the rules of professional ethics and conduct to beobserved by CPAs in North Carolina. The Board, which is considered an independent State agency, iscomposed of seven members appointed by the Governor for three-year terms. Five members must be holdersof valid and unrevoked NC CPA certificates as issued by the Board in accordance with the NC GeneralStatutes. The remaining two members, who cannot be CPAs, represent the interests of the public-at-Iarge.

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North Carolina State Board of CPA ExaminersCPA Licenses Issued 03/19/2008

Sorted by City/State

License Date First Name Middle Name Last Name License No. City State

03/19/08 Keri Leigh James 33497 Alpharetta GA

03/19/08 Lauren Michelle Graf 33506 Chicago IL

03/19/08 Jie Luo 33503 Glen Ellyn IL

03/19/08 Jessica Lee Cunn 33499 Baltimore MD

03/19/08 David Myron Shiffert 33508 Germantown MD

03/19/08 Ginger Eleanor Hepler 33530 Huntingtown MD

03/19/08 Pallavi S. Keshavamurthy 33502 Apex NC

03/19/08 Maria Lynn Rick 33547 Apex NC

03/19/08 Carole Burton Owenby 33510 Asheville NC

03/19/08 Zackery Kenneth Snyder 33521 Boone NC

03/19/08 Holly Johnson Taylor 33539 Boone NC

03/19/08 Jeffrey Thomas Hillison 33526 Cary NC

03/19/08 Mark A. Adams 33558 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Robert Thomas Borbet 33498 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Dara Leigh Carrico 33541 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Natalie Kristen Centeno 33523 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Yolande Aisha Clarke 33556 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Kelly Kuehn Cutaia 33546 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Stephanie Nix Didier 33491 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Nathan Dore Edgerly 33516 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Matthew Lindsay Groome 33525 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Cory Roland Habicht 33542 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Rebecca A. Hobbs 33543 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Karen R. Levy 33550 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Vita Macintyre 33490 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Joseph Mitchell McCausland, Jr. 33527 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Kevin Andrew McClure 33524 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Ronald Eugene Messenger, 11 33537 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Kennethia F. Owens 33538 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Matthew G. Sherwood 33554 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Michael John Szulak 33528 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Alicia Norman Thrasher 33552 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Cathlean Wells Utzig 33549 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Jonathan David Williams 33492 Charlotte NC

03/19/08 Thomas Stephen Yonchak 33519 Charlotte NC

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North Carolina State Board of CPA ExaminersCPA Licenses Issued 03/19/2008

Sorted by City/State

License Date First Name Middle Name Last Name License No. City State

03/19/08 Rusty Lee Plummer 33518 Clemmons NC

03/19/08 Carley Lynn Gavillan 33515 Concord NC

03/19/08 Joseph Byron Demers 33493 Cornelius NC

03/19/08 Jacob Griffin Schachle 33507 Fuquay-Varina NC

03/19/08 Karen Liza Shope 33553 Gastonia NC

03/19/08 Stephen Richard King 33520 Greenville NC

03/19/08 John Bradley Ipock 33517 Grimesland NC

03/19/08 Nataliya Ivanivna Tishchishyna 33494 Hickory NC

03/19/08 Ronald Stephen Chandler 33529 High Point NC

03/19/08 Jennifer Raines Harris 33505 Jamestown NC

03/19/08 Wendell T. Campbell 33496 Kernersville NC

03/19/08 Larissa Renee Taylor 33555 Matthews NC

03/19/08 Julie Kristen Bee 33540 Monroe NC

03/19/08 Travis Frank Hedgepeth 33509 Nashville NC

03/19/08 Susan E. Lieberum 33548 Pittsboro NC

03/19/08 Brandon Lynn Hollis 33495 Raleigh NC

03/19/08 Laura Adack Huntley 33551 Raleigh NC

03/19/08 Kathleen Ann O'Donnell 33545 Raleigh NC

03/19/08 Megan Michelle Olsen 33536 Raleigh NC

03/19/08 Shoolin H. Patel 33533 Raleigh NC

03/19/08 Jared Gray Plummer 33532 Raleigh NC

03/19/08 Roger Kent White, II 33513 Raleigh NC

03/19/08 Candice Marie Williams 33504 Raleigh NC

03/19/08 Paula McLean Crumpler 33522 Roseboro NC

03/19/08 Deborah Jean McGrath 33501 Wake Forest NC

03/19/08 Kathleen Mary Willison 33511 Wallace NC

03/19/08 Elizabeth Anne Creech 33514 Washington NC

03/19/08 Roxanna Marie Drake 33535 Winston-Salem NC

03/19/08 James Robert Wooten 33512 Winston-Salem NC

03/19/08 Steven Christopher Smith 33500 Winterville NC

03/19/08 Ryan Michael Lally 33531 New York NY

03/19/08 James Bertram Franks 33544 Lake Wylie SC

03/19/08 Neslihan Dogan 33534 Houston TX

03/19/08 Yvette H. Konstanzer 33557 Chesapeake VA

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