CPA Northshore chapter elects leaders

The Northshore chapter of Society of Louisiana CPAs elected nine chapter leaders recently, including Stella Helluin, current director of the St. Tammany Center of Southeastern Louisiana University, as its president.

Helluin, who received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Louisiana State University and a master’s of business administration from University of Houston, will serve a one-year term as president.

Also elected to the chapter were:

• Steven Toups as president-elect. He will automatically become president in 2009-10. He is the owner of the Novedo Group in Mandeville.

• Brian Gallagher, CPA, was named as the chapter’s treasurer. He has his own CPA firm in Covington.

• Patrick Gros, CPA, the owner of a local Covington CPA firm, was named secretary.

Rounding out the 2008-09 chapter board of directors are members-at-large Roy Austin, CPA, a manager with Entergy Services, Inc.; Tony Dyess, CPA, the owner of a Mandeville CPA firm; Marc Miller, CPA, a controller with Nolan Power Group; Paul Riggs, CPA, with the Hammond firm of Durnin & James; and Geralyn Suhor, CPA, who has her own CPA firm in Mandeville.

Michele Avery, CPA is the chapter’s immediate past-president.

She is a business valuation and litigation supervisor at the Covington office of LaPorte Sehrt Romig Hand.

The LCPA was organized in 1911 and is a non-profit professional association with more than 6,300 CPAs working in public practice, industry, government and education.