About Us

Our Team

Jim Bassil

Shareholder
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement, Consulting, Interim & Fractional CFO Services
  • Big 4 experience: Deloitte (Audit) and PwC (Recruiting)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Florida State University
  • Executive Council Board Member – National Pediatric Cancer Foundation; Graduate of Leadership Tampa, Class of 2001; Graduate of Leadership Tampa Bay, Class of 2006

Tony Linguanti

Shareholder
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement, Consulting, Interim & Fractional CFO Services
  • Large Regional CPA firm and Industry experience: Cherry, Bekaert, construction, service industry exposure.
  • Bachelor’s in Accounting from THE Florida State University
  • Active Board Member with Florida Council of Economic Education & Canterbury School of Florida; Graduate of Leadership St. Pete, Class of 2001

Heather Ceresoli, CPA

Shareholder and Chief Operating Officer
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement, Consulting, Interim & Fractional CFO Services, Sarbanes-Oxley & Control Assurance Services
  • Big 4 & Industry experience: Deloitte, publicly traded manufacturing company exposure
  • Bachelor’s & Master’s degrees in Accounting & Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida, Active Florida CPA
  • Active Board Leadership with Goodwill Suncoast & Corbett Preparatory School of IDS; Graduate of Leadership Tampa, Class of 2007

Kim O’Brien, CPA

Senior Principal | Taylor White
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement, Consulting, Interim & Fractional CFO Services, Sarbanes-Oxley & Control Assurance Services
  • National and Regional CPA Firm & Industry Experience: Grant Thornton and CBIZ, CFO at Healthcare Company.
  • Bachelor’s in Accounting from the University of South Florida, Active Florida CPA
  • Active Board Leadership with USF Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy (Advisory and Accounting Circle Boards), Gracepoint Wellness; St. John’s Episcopal Church and School; Graduate of Leadership Tampa, Class of 2007
  • Awards: TBBJ’s CFO of the Year (2008 – NFP Category), 2017 Finalist for the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce “Outstanding Small Business Leader of the Year Award”

Tracy Tringali

Senior Principal | Taylor White
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement, Consulting, Interim & Fractional CFO Services, Career Coaching
  • Big 4 & Industry experience: Fortune 200 steel manufacturer, Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois, inactive CPA in both Florida & Illinois
  • Active Board Member with Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Graduate of Tampa Connection

John Sarmanian

Principal | Taylor White
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement, Consulting, Interim & Fractional CFO Services
  • Big 4 experience focusing on the insurance industry
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and MBA from Salve Regina University in Newport, RI
  • Graduate of Leadership Tampa Bay, Class of 2014 and member of the University of Tampa Board of Counselors

Katie Halkett, CPA

Principal | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement, Consulting, Interim & Fractional CFO Services, Temporary Staffing
  • Big 4 & Industry experience: PwC, EY, private equity owned marketing services company exposure
  • MBA & Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Denver, Active Florida CPA
  • Graduate of Leadership Tampa, Class of 2015

Kelly Moore

Recruiting Manager | Taylor White
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement & Consulting
  • Big 4 experience: EY (Audit) Exposure on public & private clients within the manufacturing, telecommunications, & consumer products/retail industries.
  • Master’s & Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Tampa

Hannah Letzelter

Senior Recruiter| Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement & Consulting
  • Big 4 (Audit) & National Advisory Firm Experience: Exposure to public and private clients within the insurance, banking, and biopharmaceutical industries.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Rhode Island

Sabrina Petrosky, CPA

Senior Recruiter | Taylor White
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement & Consulting
  • Big 4 Experience with exposure to public and private clients within the hospitality, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries
  • Completed coursework for Accounting PhD from Florida State University
  • Master’s & Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Florida International Universit

Brett Fucheck

Senior Recruiter | Taylor White
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement & Consulting
  • Diverse experience in transactional accounting functions at mid-market financial services organizations.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Mount Saint Mary College

AccountAbility

Blair Greene, CPA

Principal | AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Big 4 & Industry experience: Deloitte, private equity owned insurance company exposure
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, minor in Management from Clemson University, Active North Carolina CPA
  • Volunteer with Heart Gallery Dream Team, Metropolitan Ministries Ambassador Board, involvement in Alpha House of Pinellas Bloomin’ Butterflies, Tampa Bay Association of Finance Professionals (TBAFP) Secretary

Sarah Phillips

Recruiting Manager | AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Completed an audit internship with a regional public accounting firm
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Marketing from Florida State University. GO NOLES!
  • Membership Chair for the Great Futures Professional Council for the Boys and Girls Club of Tampa Bay and a member of Tampa Connection’s 2019-2020 class

Jamie Parker

Recruiting Manager| AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Industry experience: Diverse industry experience in transactional accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable & ERP system implementation.

Sean Samisch

Senior Recruiter | AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties:  Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Industry experience: Professional exposure as a Billing Lead/Analyst. Extensive recruiting/sourcing experience in Finance/Accounting
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Florida State University

Francesca Rusca

Senior Recruiter | AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Industry experience: RSM Audit Internship, AP experience and ERP system implementation within the fin-tech industry.
  • Bachelor’s in Accounting & Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Tampa

Nordia Candelaria

Senior Recruiter | AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Industry experience:  Extensive experience in Finance/Accounting
  • Pathfinder and Adventurer Club Volunteer with the Seventh Day Adventist Church

Account Managers

Kristina Marrero

Senior Account Manager | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Supporting client team efforts, focused on prospect research, job side execution & marketing, and overall service excellence. Additionally, handle Direct Hire and Temp-to-perm/Temporary Staffing.
  • Corporate accounting experience within a multinational corporation specializing in technology for electronic payment transactions
  • Bachelor’s degree in Management & Organizational Leadership

Kristin Green

Account Manager | Taylor White
  • Specialties: Supporting client team efforts, focused on prospect research, job side execution & marketing, and overall service excellence
  • Experience within corporate compliance, general management/business ownership, and as an educator focused on entrepreneurship, accounting, and customer service.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business & Technology Education

Sourcing

Rachel Gaines Newmyer, CPA

Senior Manager, Sourcing & Recruiting | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Permanent Placement & Consulting
  • Public Accounting & Industry experience: Small to mid-sized firms, publicly traded transportation/logistics services and privately held veterinary company exposure.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Southern Mississippi, Active Oregon CPA
  • Volunteer involvement in Metropolitan Ministries and Alpha House

Almarie Mendez Velez

Sourcing Analyst | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Industry experience: Extensive recruiting/sourcing experience in Finance/Accounting and Technology

Julie De Francisco

Sourcing Analyst | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Industry experience: Extensive recruiting/sourcing experience in Finance/Accounting and industry experience in transactional accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable

Courtney Carson

Sourcing Analyst| Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Direct Hire, Temp-to-Perm, Temporary Staffing
  • Big 4 experience: EY Consulting experience within the technology, media and telecommunications industry.
  • MBA from the University of South Florida and Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Tampa

Administrative/Marketing

Jeni Donaldson, CPA

Director of Accounting | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Operations accounting management, financial analysis, payroll, and benefits management
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  • Bachelor’s degrees in Administration of Justice and Social Science from Portland State University, Portland, OR
  • Actively licensed CPA in the state of Florida

Justin Jocelyn

Director of Finance | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties:  FP&A, modeling, KPI tracking, budgeting and forecasting.
  • Industry experience: Private Equity owned manufacturing/retail companies, automotive
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from University of South Florida (St. Petersburg)

Lidiya Dybiec

Office Manager | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing

Leon Ferreira

Corporate Accountant | Taylor White & AccountAbility Staffing
  • Specialties: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Application, and Benefits Enrollment
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Phoenix, Tampa, FL