Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Taylor Hamilton is a senior manager in the client accounting and advisory services (CAAS) group at KraftCPAs. He is responsible for coordinating and executing client engagements, building and maintaining client relationships, and managing and reviewing the work of other team members.

Taylor works extensively with clients in the real estate and construction industries. He provides accounting, tax, and general business services such as controller outsourcing, bookkeeping, financial statement preparation, and federal and state tax return planning and preparation.

Taylor, who joined Kraft in 2017, has more than six years of experience in public accounting and four years of experience in private accounting across multiple industries.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Associated Builders and Contractors
• ABC Greater Tennessee Emerging Leaders
• Associated General Contractors of Tennessee
• AGC Middle Tennessee Construction Leadership Council
• Rebuilding Together Nashville, Board of Directors and Finance Committee

Rebecca McMurtrie is a senior manager in the tax services group at KraftCPAs PLLC. She is responsible for coordinating and executing client engagements, building and maintaining client relationships, and managing and reviewing the work of other team members.

Rebecca works extensively with clients across multiple industries, including those in the healthcare, construction, real estate, and professional service sectors.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants

Kathryn Turner is a senior manager with the assurance services team at KraftCPAs PLLC. In that role, she helps oversee the planning and completion of audit, review, and compilation engagements, builds and maintains client relationships, prepares and presents reports to boards and audit committees, and manages and mentors others on the team.

Kathryn works extensively with clients in the manufacturing/wholesale/distribution, construction, and nonprofit industries. She also provides employee benefit plan audit and advisory services.

Kathryn has more than a decade of experience in public accounting. She joined Kraft in January 2025.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• TSCPA Awards Committee

Cameron Reese is a senior manager in the tax services department of KraftCPAs PLLC. She is responsible for coordinating and executing tax service engagements, building and maintaining client relationships, and managing and reviewing the work of other team members.

Cameron works closely with a variety of clients, including corporations, pass-through entities, and individuals. She also works extensively with many of the firm’s manufacturing/wholesale/distribution (MWD) clients, including those who have substantial foreign operations or are U.S. branches or subsidiaries of foreign entities.

Cameron advises businesses and companies on complex tax compliance and cost-saving strategies, such as state and federal deductions, federal research and experimentation (R&E) and work opportunity credits, IC-DISC for exporters, and cost segregation studies.

Before joining KraftCPAs in 2019, Cameron worked in public accounting for three years in Virginia.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants

Atsushi Fujita is a senior manager with the tax services group at KraftCPAs. He is responsible for coordinating and executing tax research, planning, and compliance engagements, building and maintaining client relationships, and managing and reviewing the work of other team members.

Atsushi works extensively with individuals and families, including engagements that involve trusts, estates, partnerships, corporations, and S corporations.

He joined Kraft in 2015 after seven years as an accountant with an international automotive parts manufacturer.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants

Alex Dawald is a member in the assurance services department of KraftCPAs. He is responsible for planning and executing engagements, maintaining client relationships, and managing/reviewing the work of his team, and preparing and presenting reports to clients.

As practice leader of the firm’s healthcare industry team, Alex oversees audits, reviews, compilations, and consulting services for clients in the healthcare industry, including community, critical access, governmental, and nonprofit hospitals; physician practices; nursing homes; assisted and independent living communities; dentists; pharmacies; and other healthcare support services. He also works with the firm’s employee benefit plan clients to provide audit and consulting services.

To keep up-to-date with the evolving nature of the healthcare industry, Alex receives extensive ongoing training and regularly attends healthcare-specific events and CPE training sponsored by the Nashville Health Care Council, Leadership Health Care, the National CPA Health Care Advisors Association (Rainmaker NicheWorks), Nashville Medical Group Management Association, and the Tennessee Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Alex, who has more than 10 years of experience in public accounting, previously worked for a CPA firm in Minnesota before joining KraftCPAs in 2013.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• National CPA Health Care Advisors Association
• Healthcare Financial Management Association
• Leadership Health Care
• Nashville Medical Group Management Association
• The College Bound Athletics Foundation, Treasurer
• Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville, Volunteer
• Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, Volunteer

Carson Mayhall is a manager with Kraft Analytics, LLC, an affiliate of KraftCPAs.

Carson has extensive experience related to business valuation, equity interests, intellectual property, and other intangible assets. He works with clients in a variety of industries on complex engagements involving managerial planning, lending, investment, accounting, tax, marital dissolution, restructuring, and litigation.

His additional experience in forensic accounting services provides valuable insight for clients faced with complex financial situations.

Prior to joining Kraft in 2016, Carson worked at a Knoxville law firm as a law clerk.

Elvis Meskovic is a manager at Kraft Analytics, LLC, an affiliate of KraftCPAs that specializes in valuation, forensics, and transaction advisory services.

Elvis specializes in valuation services, including valuations of businesses, equity interests, debt securities, derivatives and other complex securities, intellectual property, and other intangible assets for managerial planning, compliance, accounting and financial reporting, tax, marital dissolution, transactional consulting, and litigation purposes.

Elvis also assists clients with forensic accounting, finance, and economics services.  His forensic experience includes working with attorneys related to valuation issues, transactional disputes, economic damages, intellectual property, wrongful terminations, and criminal investigations.  Elvis’s experience includes forensic matters concerning corporate alter egos, misappropriation of assets, accounting and financial reporting irregularities, intellectual property infringement, and other civil misconduct.

Elvis also specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory, restructurings, and other transaction advisory services.  Elvis assists clients on both the sell side and buy side in merger and acquisitions transactions, and assists clients with modeling reorganizations, divestitures, lending transactions, and generational transfers.  Elvis’s transaction advisory services also include financial due diligence, quality of earnings and working capital analyses, fairness opinions, financial accounting advisory, compensation planning, new capital issuance consulting, valuation issues, and complex capital structure valuation and analysis.

Before joining Kraft Analytics in 2021, Elvis was a supervisor with the client accounting and advisory services (CAAS) group at KraftCPAs. As an outsourced financial accountant and tax advisor, Elvis provided accounting, tax advisory and compliance, and management consulting services to a wide range of closely held businesses in the real estate, restaurant, entertainment, financial services, and construction industries.

Elvis began his career with KPMG LLP in 2018 as a tax associate. He later served as a senior associate in the firm’s accounting methods and credit services consulting group. In his roles at KPMG, Elvis provided tax consulting services, compliance, transactional tax advisory, and tax and financial accounting methods analysis, and he served as a technical tax expert on audit engagements for publicly traded and privately held companies.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Institute of Management Accountants
• WKU Accounting Advisory Board

Eva Pulley is a senior manager in the tax services department of KraftCPAs. She is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships and managing/reviewing the work of other team members.

Eva specializes in estate and trust tax planning and administration, as well as family wealth transfer planning. She works extensively with attorneys, trust companies, and clients’ other advisors to develop and maintain plans to meet the needs of our clients and multiple generations of their families.

Eva, who has more than 30 years of public accounting experience, joined Kraft in 2016. She previously served as the director of estates and trusts at a local CPA firm for more than 11 years.

Involvement

• American Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Middle Tennessee Estate Planning Council

Fran Leahy is a senior manager with the tax services team at KraftCPAs. She works exclusively with nonprofit clients to provide Form 990 research, preparation, and review services.

Fran has more than 25 years of public accounting experience. Prior to joining KraftCPAs in 2009, she was an internal auditor with a national healthcare firm for five years as well as an accounting instructor at a four-year university.

For almost a decade, Fran has worked exclusively on Form 990 engagements for nonprofit clients. Prior to that, Form 990s were a significant part of her responsibilities, in addition to tax services for corporations, partnerships, individuals, and other for-profit clients.

Fran has attended the AICPA Not-For-Profit conference each year since her full-time move to nonprofit engagements and is a member of the AICPA Not-For-Profit Section.

Involvement

Current Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• AICPA Not-for-Profit Section
• Carolina Mountain Club, Appalachian Trail Section Maintainer

Previous Involvement

• Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee, Troop Leader
• NaCoMe Camp and Retreat Center Inc., Treasurer, Board President
• Hammer and Heart, Treasurer

Professional Achievements

Frequent presenter, including:

• “990 Updates and Common Errors,” TSCPA Governmental and Nonprofit Conference
• “2020 Nonprofit Tax Updates,” TSCPA Governmental and Nonprofit Conference
• “Scenario Planning in Times of Uncertainty,” HCA Foundation
• Accounting lecturer at Belmont University and Appalachian State University
• “Telling an Organization’s Story Through Proper 990 Reporting,” TSCPA Governmental and Not-for-Profit Conference
• “990 Hot Topics for Schools,” NBOA conference at The Harpeth Hall
• “What to Do When the IRS Calls,” Arts and Business Council’s Art Crawl

Gina Pruitt is a member with the risk assurance and advisory services (RAAS) practice of KraftCPAs. She provides risk management consulting; internal audits; system and organization controls (SOC) examinations; HITRUST common security framework (CSF) engagements; IT audit and consulting; network security and vulnerability assessments; and cybersecurity controls consulting. Gina is a leader with the firm’s internal audit practice, where she manages several fully outsourced integrated IT and internal audit engagements.

Gina has more than 30 years of experience, including expertise performing risk assessments, setting up internal audit departments, and managing all aspects of internal audit, specializing in IT audits and integrated audits. She has been an IT internal auditor in both public accounting and private industry, and she presents to audit committees on a regular basis.

Gina spent 10 years in Big Four public accounting as the partner-in-charge of the Nashville practice of enterprise risk services (ERS) with Deloitte & Touche. She was the national healthcare industry leader for ERS as well as the Southeast regional director for internal audit services. Gina managed approximately 200 employees and more than 100 clients as part of Deloitte’s Southeast region..

Involvement

Current Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA): CPA Exam Evolution Initiative: Information Systems and Controls Discipline Panel
• AICPA National SOC Peer Reviewer
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA): Board of Directors; Board of Trustees; Council; Student Outreach, Advancement, and Recruitment Committee
• Tennessee Bankers Association (TBA), IT Leaders Forum Sponsor
• ISACA: Founding Charter Member, Past President, Mid-TN Chapter
• Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA): Academic Relations Committee; Board of Directors
• Leadership Health Care
• Healthcare Financial Management Association
• University of Tennessee, Accounting and Information Management Advisory Board

Previous Involvement

• AICPA Board of Examiners: Information Management Technology Assurance Executive Committee; National SOC Task Force; Cybersecurity Sub-Committee; SOC Sub-Committee
• TSCPA: Financial Institutions Committee; Cybersecurity Task Force; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
• TBA, Strategic Technology Conference Committee
• IIA, Chairman of the Board of Directors
• Nashville Technology Council: Board of Directors; Executive Committee; Finance Chair
• Tennessee Tech University, Accounting Advisory Board
• Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Technology Committee
• Leadership Brentwood, Class of 2013
• Williamson Co. Habitat for Humanity, Women Build Committee
• CABLE
• Infragard Middle Tennessee, Board of Directors

Professional Achievements

• Power Leader in Finance and Women of Influence, Nashville Business Journal
• InCharge Healthcare and Women to Watch, Nashville Medical News
• TSCPA Impact Award
• Women’s Mentoring Program, Nashville Business Journal
• Contributor to Nashville Medical News and The Tennessee Banker
• Guest presenter and panelist on cybersecurity and other technology topics