WilkinGuttenplan's H. Edward Wilkin III Among CPA & ESQ Awards Program Winners

July 2, 2015 — WilkinGuttenplan announced this week that H. Edward Wilkin III — a 2015 New York SmartCEO CPA & ESQ finalist — was recognized as the CPA CEO of the Year for SmartCEO magazine. The magazine's CPA & ESQ Awards program honors the region's most enterprising accountants and attorneys for their leadership, accomplishment, innovation, and success. An independent committee of local business leaders chooses the CPA & ESQ finalists based on the quality of nominations submitted. Awards are presented to accountants and attorneys that are deemed to have made an outstanding impact on their clients' businesses. The winners were announced at an awards reception in June and were profiled in the May/June issue of the magazine. In the last three decades, WilkinGuttenplan P.C., Certified Public Accountants and Consultants has grown from the two founding partners to a firm that now employs more 85 professional and administrative personnel. Wilkin was one of thirteen winners in various categories. The others included Michael J. Kessler, CPA (Michael Kessler, CPA, owner and profitability consultant) for CPA Service Area Firm/Small; CBIZ MHM, LLC and Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs (Steven Nicokiris, CPA, managing director and shareholder) for CPA Service Area Firm/Large; Presti & Naegele (Joseph Romano, CPA, partner) for CPA Firm of the Year/Small; Citrin Cooperman (Wilfredo Fernandez, CPA, partner, accounting and tax) for CPA Firm of the Year/Large; Frank Frank Goldstein Nager PC (Jocelyn Nager, managing partner) for ESQ Service Area Firm/Small; David Sorin, partner, McCarter & English, LLP for ESQ Industry Practice; Corey L. Massella, CPA partner, Citrin Cooperman for CPA Industry Practice; Amy E. D'Agostino, counsel, Chadbourne & Parke LLP for ESQ Industry Practice; McCarter & English, LLP (David Sorin, partner) for ESQ Service Area Firm/Large; Smith Valliere PLLC (Mark W. Smith, founding partner) for ESQ Firm of the Year/Small; Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP (Jodi Rosensaft, associate) for ESQ Firm of the Year/Large; and Jessica Golden Cortes, partner, labor and employment, Davis & Gilbert LLP for ESQ Industry Practice.