Vice President, Tax Services Group

Experience

Al has extensive experience in serving the advisory and consulting needs of many of our clients, as well as managing the accounting and tax service engagements performed for those clients. As an attorney-CPA and an accomplished tax practitioner, he is an authority on tax matters. He guides the efforts of staff on planning, compliance, and representation issues. Al is an enthusiastic professional, assisting businesses by applying his expert knowledge of accounting and tax law. His consulting experience has focused on entity structuring, mergers and acquisitions, estate and succession planning, and the development of tax minimization strategies that coincide with clients’ economic objectives. Al received his professional training and experience over a ten-year period with the Standard Oil Company, Ernst & Young, and Kopperman & Wolf prior to serving as the tax partner of Daywalt, Tobin and Company, which merged with Meaden & Moore in September 2001.

Education

• Michigan State University, Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration
• Cleveland State University - Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Juris Doctorate degree
• Case Western Reserve University, graduate studies in operations research and finance

Organizational Involvement

• Ohio Bar Association
• Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Partnership and Corporate Taxation Committees of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tax Section of the American Bar Association
• A speaker on a variety of tax topics and provides tax training to our professional staff