SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- National
accounting and consulting enterprise Novogradac elevated nine
managers to principal–Justin Chubb Lurya of the Long Beach, California, office; Joyce Hsia of the San
Francisco office; Colette
Drexel, Ken Do and Sun-Ae Woo of the Walnut Creek, California, office; Jodie Fish of the Portland, Oregon, office; Stacy Gordon and Donald
Sabine of the Dover, Ohio,
office; and Alexis Ruane of the
Malvern, Pennsylvania, office.
Novogradac, which specializes in affordable housing, community
development, historic preservation and renewable energy, has 59
principals in more than 25 cities nationwide.
"I am pleased to announce that Alexis, Colette, Donald, Jodie,
Joyce, Justin, Ken, Stacy and Sun-Ae have been promoted to
principal," said Michael J.
Novogradac, managing partner of Novogradac. "Expanding the
firm's leadership team will elevate Novogradac's level of client
service."
Chubb Lurya specializes in
community development and affordable housing, including the
low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), new markets tax credit
(NMTC), historic rehabilitation tax credit (HTC) and opportunity
zones (OZ) industries. Chubb Lurya
also has experience with nonprofit organizations and the auditing
requirements of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), the Office of Management and Budget Uniform
Guidance, California Housing Finance Agency and the California
Housing and Community Development offices. In addition to providing
traditional audit and tax services, he provides various consulting
and forecasting services, and has worked extensively on structuring
LIHTC, NMTC, HTC and OZ transactions. Chubb
Lurya graduated from the University of
California, Berkeley, with a bachelor's degree in economics.
He is licensed in California as a
certified public accountant.
Do provides audit, tax and consulting services for real estate
developers, syndicators, and nonprofit organizations within the
affordable housing industry. He has significant experience with
litigation support engagements as well as the design and structure
of financial models for multi-tiered real estate investment
portfolios, and the integration of those models into a database
environment. Do's consulting services include extensive involvement
in portfolio management assistance and analysis of large-scale
acquisitions and dispositions of tax incentivized real estate
assets. He received his bachelor's degree in business economics
with an emphasis in accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is
licensed in California as a
certified public accountant.
Drexel provides financial statement audit, tax return
preparation, and consulting services, specializing in real estate
partnerships, nonprofit organizations, private trusts, estates and
high-net-worth individuals. Drexel has extensive experience
preparing audits and tax returns for nonprofit and for-profit
entities with compliance for LIHTC, NMTC, HUD, California Housing
Finance Agency and Uniform Guidance. Additionally, she prepares
cost segregation analysis for rental real estate properties. She
has contributed to the Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits, the
Novogradac Historic Tax Credit Handbook and Novogradac Year 15
Handbook. Drexel earned a bachelor's degree in urban studies from
San Francisco State University, a
master's degree in real estate development from the University of Southern California, and a master's
degree in accounting from the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a licensed certified
public accountant in California.
Fish specializes in NMTCs, OZs, LIHTCs and HTCs. In addition to
providing various consulting services, he works extensively on
financial statement audits, tax return preparation, final cost
certifications, financial forecasts and agreed-upon procedures
engagements. Fish's specialization with the NMTC includes
experience with Community Development Financial Institution
reporting requirements and NMTC allocation applications. Before
joining Novogradac, he had several years of experience at Northwest
CPA firms, where he provided audit, accounting, tax compliance and
business advisory services to manufacturers, assisted living and
skilled nursing facilities, contractors, real estate developers,
property owners, employee benefit plans and nonprofit
organizations. Fish also has tax and accounting experience with
individuals, closely held partnerships, LLCs, S corporations and C
corporations. Fish is a regular contributor to the Novogradac
Journal of Tax Credits and has presented on accounting and tax
topics in various industry conferences. Fish also serves as the
Treasurer for an Oregon nonprofit
organization. Fish received his bachelor's degree in business
administration with an emphasis in accounting from Portland State University. He is licensed in
Oregon as a certified public
accountant.
Gordon has significant experience with affordable housing tax
credit equity funds and property audits, various attestation and
consulting engagements, final cost certification audits, and
federal, state and local tax services for partnerships, limited
liability companies and corporations. Gordon works extensively with
syndicators, developers, investors and tax credit/property
compliance companies. She specializes in the LIHTC, real estate
partnerships and investments, tax-exempt bond financed developments
and project development industries. In addition, she has experience
with nonprofit audits and tax returns, as well as consolidated
entities. Since joining the firm in 2012, she has been involved in
conducting HUD Multifamily Accelerated Processing Quality Control
and Construction Loan Administration reviews for lenders. Gordon
earned a bachelor's degree in business administration, with a
concentration in marketing and a minor in economics, from
Mount Union College. She is licensed as
a certified public accountant in Ohio.
Hsia provides audit and tax services to real estate partnerships
in the affordable housing industry specializing in developments
financed by LIHTCs and tax-exempt housing bonds, as well as
assistance in applying for tax credits and bonds. She also
specializes in LIHTC property compliance reviews and has
contributed articles on tax credit property compliance to the
Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits. Hsia received a bachelor's
degree in economics from the University of
California, Berkeley. She is licensed in California as a certified public
accountant.
Ruane specializes in providing audit, tax and attestation
services to clients in the real estate industry, with an emphasis
in the LIHTC community. She has experience working with various
clients including affordable housing partnerships, upper-tier tax
credit equity funds, and for-profit and nonprofit housing
developers. Ruane has worked extensively on financial statement
audits, tax return preparation, final cost certifications,
compliance reporting and various LIHTC-specific engagements. Ruane
has experience with the auditing requirements of HUD, CalHFA and
HCD. She received a bachelor's degree in business administration
from Drexel University. Ruane is
licensed in California and
Pennsylvania as a certified public
accountant.
Sabine specializes in NMTCs, HTCs and the OZ incentive. Sabine
performs numerous services related to these industries, including
general and program compliance consulting, financial forecasting
services, tax preparation and financial statement audits. He also
works with numerous developers/sponsors, syndicators and investors
by providing transaction advisory services. His experience includes
structuring complex financing for real estate developments,
including using NMTCs, HTCs, the OZ incentives and other federal,
state and local tax credits and incentives. Sabine has extensive
experience in preparing financial forecasts for HTC, NMTC and OZ
projects, as well as syndicated real estate investments. He earned
bachelor's degrees in accounting and finance from Walsh University. He is licensed in Ohio as a certified public accountant.
Woo provides audit and tax services to real estate partnerships
in the affordable housing community, specializing in developments
financed by LIHTCs and tax-exempt housing bonds, as well as
assistance in applying for tax credits and bonds. She has extensive
experience with cost segregation studies,
acquisition/rehabilitation compliance issues, final cost
certifications, housing and community development, California
Housing Finance Agency, Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment
department audits, Year-15 issues, as well as re-syndications. She
also has expertise in LIHTC property compliance reviews and has
contributed many articles on tax credit property compliance to the
Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits. She attained her bachelor's
degree in economics from the University of
California, Berkeley and is a licensed CPA in California.
About Novogradac
Novogradac, which has been in business for more than 30 years, has
grown to more than 650 employees and partners with offices in more
than 25 cities. Tax, audit and consulting specialty practice areas
for Novogradac include affordable housing, community development,
historic rehabilitation and renewable energy.
For additional information on Novogradac's personnel and areas
of expertise, visit http://www.novoco.com or call (415)
356-8000.
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Media Contact
Michael Novogradac, CPA,
Novogradac, 415-356-8000, cpas@novoco.com
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