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PRESS RELEASE – PP&Co Announces Expansion of its Santa Cruz Practice

Santa Cruz, California – August 8, 2016 – Petrinovich Pugh & Company, LLP (PP&Co), a leading provider of tax, audit, and related financial services in Santa Cruz and the greater Bay Area, is pleased to announce expanded tax services and a new Santa Cruz office location, effective November 1, 2016.

PP&Co will be adding a new team, which includes tax partner Frank Minuti, managers Martita Emde and Cara Kelly, staff accountants Jennifer Gandrup and Deval Thacker, and bookkeeper Suzy Marini.  They will be joining PP&Co from Armanino LLP’s Santa Cruz office location. PP&Co will combine Santa Cruz office locations and operate from 740 Front Street, Suite 365, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

As the PP&Co Santa Cruz office has continued to grow, it was a natural progression to seek additional resources to serve the expanding practice. With the combined knowledge and depth of experience from both teams, clients will benefit from regional firm resources and expertise, while receiving the care and attention of a local firm.

Minuti Minuti is excited to join PP&Co. “I have known David Doolin – the partner who oversees the PP&Co Santa Cruz office – for several years and am impressed both with him and with PP&Co. The culture at PP&Co is very similar to that of the Armanino Santa Cruz office. Our first priority has always been to provide the best service possible to our clients, and we feel confident that this move enhances our ability to do just that. PP&Co shares our philosophy of helping our clients to grow and succeed, and the transition will broaden and deepen our ability to do so.”

David Doolin lives in Santa Cruz and is a member of the Boards of Directors of Kuumbwa Jazz, the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, and Hospice of Santa Cruz County.

DD Doolin had this to say. “This area offers an exceptional quality of life that’s valuable to our employees and to those we serve. The Santa Cruz culture and environment are unique in many respects, and we eagerly anticipate the prospect of Frank and his team joining PP&Co to better serve the needs of the Santa Cruz business community. We look forward to continuing to expand our presence in the community, and to serving both the long standing clients and their families, and emerging businesses with the same level of engagement we have provided our clients for 65 years.”

MarcMarc Parkinson, PP&Co Managing Partner, is equally excited to welcome the new team. “Service to our Santa Cruz clients has increased, and we have grown to become a part of the Santa Cruz community. While our headquarters is located in San Jose, our Santa Cruz office has experienced tremendous success, in part because we are a local business – we are located in Santa Cruz, we hire from Santa Cruz, and we participate in the Santa Cruz community. The team joining us from Armanino will enhance our ability to serve our clients, and build upon our reputation as a firm that Santa Cruz can trust.”

Petrinovich Pugh and Company, LLP was founded in San Jose in 1951. It is a full-service accounting firm that has provided planning, consulting and compliance services to small and medium-sized, privately held companies, multi-generational family-owned businesses, partnerships, organizations, and high net worth individuals for 65 years. The Firm has consistently been named one of the Bay Area’s 125 Best Places to Work in the 25-50 employee category, as ranked annually by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times. The firm also has the distinction of being named one of the 100 Best Accounting Firms to Work For in the Nation, by Accounting Today magazine, for multiple years.

PP&Co headquarters is located in downtown San Jose – in the Comerica Bank building – 333 W. Santa Clara Street, Suite 830, San Jose, CA 95113. For more information, please contact Saralyn Winslow, Marketing Coordinator, at swinslow@ppandco.com, or via telephone at (408) 287-7911.