Pub. 3 2021 Issue 6

N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 1 28 nebraska cpas Members in the News AdamAustin has been promoted to tax director at Lutz in Omaha. He has more than 12 years of tax and consulting experience. He is responsible for providing tax consulting and compliance services to individuals, partnerships, and corporations focusing on the healthcare, manufacturing, and agriculture industries. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a member of both the Nebraska Society of CPAs and the AICPA. Clarke Beller has been promoted to audit director at Lutz in Omaha. He has more than 11 years of experience. He specializes in providing auditing and consulting services to privately held companies and employee benefit plans with a focus on the construction industry. Beller holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master of Business Administration from theUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha. He is amember of both the Nebraska Society of CPAs and the AICPA. Ben Burton has been promoted to tax shareholder at Lutz in Omaha. He has more than nine years of experience in taxation. His primary focus is providing income and state and local tax services to corporations, partnerships, and individuals. In addition, he specializes in trust and estate consulting and compliance. Burton holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a member of both the Nebraska Society of CPAs and the AICPA. Katelyn Byrd has been promoted to audit director at Lutz in Omaha. She has more than eight years of related experience. She provides assurance services to businesses focusing on the retail, service, manufacturing, nonprofit, and franchise industries. In addition, she assists with transaction advisory services and employee benefit plans. Byrd holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a member of both the Nebraska Society of CPAs and the AICPA. KirkDelperdang has been promoted to healthcare director at Lutz in Omaha. He has more than 28 years of experience. He provides healthcare enrollment services to clients with a focus on Medicare providers and reimbursement analyses. In addition, he is responsible for leading Lutz's cost report service line. Delperdang holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He is a member of the Nebraska Society of CPAs as well as the Nebraska Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Joseph Donovan has been promoted to tax shareholder at Lutz in Omaha. He has more than 10 years of experience in taxation. He primarily focuses his time on tax compliance, research, and consulting assistance to privately held companies in various industries, including real estate development and construction. Donovan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Accounting and a Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of both the Nebraska Society of CPAs and the AICPA. Doug Ewald has joined theUniversity of Nebraska AthleticDepartment as executive associate athletic director and chief financial officer, after spending the past three years as the vice chancellor for business, finance, and business development at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. His most public role involved serving as Nebraska’s tax commissioner under Gov. Dave Heineman from 2006 to 2013. In addition, Ewald spent 17 years with Union Pacific, ultimately serving as the company’s director of state tax compliance, audit, and financial reporting. His other employers have includedOmaha-basedKPMG, where he served as managing director of state and local tax compliance from2013 to 2017, and Lincoln-based Ameritas, where he served as tax director from2017 to 2018. Ewald holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Buena Vista University (1985) and a master’s degree in professional accounting from UNO (1989). He has been a CPA within the state of Nebraska since 1987, a member of the Nebraska Society of CPAs for 33 years, and a member of the AICPA. Ewald has received recognition from his alma maters, earning the UNO College of Business Administration’s “Distinguished Alumnus” award in 2015 and Buena Vista University’s “John Fisher Alumni Award” in 2010. Colin Fitzgerald has joined Seim Johnson in Elkhorn as an associate. Fitzgerald attended Creighton University, graduating in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Accounting. During his time in college, he joined Beta Gamma Sigma, an international business honor society, earned a 4.0 GPA, was named to the Dean’s List each semester, and was nominated for the 2018-2019Heider College of BusinessMale Student of theYear award. He remains involved with his alma mater via the Heider College of Business Alumni Association. In addition, Fitzgerald has assisted the Nebraska Board of Public Accountancy Chapter