National accounting and advisory firm Marcum LLP welcomes five new partners in three East Coast offices.

BOSTON

Mark Cummings, CPA – Mr. Cummings is an Assurance Services partner in the Boston office. He has more than 20 years of experience in assurance, reimbursement and tax in the healthcare industry, serving skilled nursing facilities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living facilities, home health and hospice agencies, and physicians’ practices. He serves clients in the New England market with revenues ranging from $1 million to more than $300 million, in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

Lindsay N. Timcke, MBA – Mr. Timcke is a principal in Marcum's Boston Advisory and Consulting practice and a member of the Firm's Cybersecurity and IT Risk & Assurance Services groups. He specializes in the development and implementation of cybersecurity programs and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) assessments for preventive and detective risk-based programs. Mr. Timcke has 25 years of experience assisting nonprofits, educational institutions, and public and quasi-government agencies, including several Fortune 2000 companies.

NEW YORK

Richard A. Izzi, CPA – Mr. Izzi is a partner in the New York Advisory Group, where he leads transaction services for the tristate (NY/NJ/CT) area. He specializes in transaction advisory services to buy- and sell-side clients including private equity funds, strategic investors and lenders. His expertise includes refinance and recapitalizations, financial modeling, working capital analysis, carve out analysis, purchase agreement consultation, and dispute resolution. Mr. Izzi is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.

Douglas McKay, CPA – Mr. McKay is a tax partner in the Firm’s Alternative Investment Industry Group, based in New York City. He has more than 20 years of experience and specializes in partnership and private equity taxation. Mr. McKay advises private equity funds, real estate funds, and their general partnerships and management companies on complex tax matters. His knowledge of partnership taxation, international tax compliance, and state and local tax compliance has been applied to private equity, real estate funds and their portfolio companies.

PHILADELPHIA

Andrew E. Finkle, CPA, JD, LLM – Mr. Finkle is a partner and tax leader in the Transaction Advisory Services Group of the Firm’s Philadelphia office. He is also a Mid-Atlantic regional leader in Marcum’s Private Equity Practice group. He has more than 30 years of experience advising middle-market businesses on transactional, day-to-day advisory, compliance, and accounting-related tax

matters. He is also a tax attorney skilled in tax controversy matters. Mr. Finkle leads a team of transaction tax advisory professionals providing counsel to U.S. and multinational strategic buyers and sellers, private equity groups, and other financial buyers on the tax implications of complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, spin-offs, bankruptcies, work-outs and dispositions.

“My partners and I welcome these outstanding professionals to the Marcum leadership team and look forward to seeing their expertise at work for our clients. Each one of them will make a significant contribution to our specialized industry groups and the continued expansion of our service portfolio, and we are delighted to have them on board,” said Jeffrey M. Weiner, chairman and chief executive officer.

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About Marcum

Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation, with offices in major business markets throughout the U.S., as well as Grand Cayman, China, and Ireland. Headquartered in New York City, Marcum provides a full spectrum of traditional tax, accounting, and assurance services; advisory, valuation, and litigation support; managed accounting services; and an extensive portfolio of specialty and niche industry practices. The Firm serves both privately held and publicly traded companies, as well as nonprofit and social sector entities, high net worth individuals, private equity funds, and hedge funds, with a focus on middle-market companies and closely held family businesses. Marcum is a member of the Marcum Group, an organization providing a comprehensive array of professional services. For more information, visit  www.marcumllp.com.