b'Alumni & Recent Alumni AwardsThe Trulaske College of Businessbestows thecollege. We are proud to note that many of the recipients Recent Alumni Achievement Award, Alumni Citation offrom 2021 and 2022 were nominated because of their Merit, Special Citation of Merit, and Alumni of the Yearconnections to the School of Accountancy. Their profiles award as the highest honors for alumni and friends of theand accomplishments are detailed below.2021 Awardsand privately held companies across a wide variety of Lisa Klempertindustries. He currently leads the 100-plus person Kansas 2021 Alumni Citation of MeritCity audit practice and is in the process of transitioning to BS Acc 93, University of Missourithe managing partner role for the entire 225-person office. Member After spending 10 years in the PwC St. Louis office, SFW Partners worked for the SEC Services department of the firms Lisa has 25 years of experience innational office from 2006-08. In his role, Christopher public accounting.She is a partnerreviewed more than 200 SEC filings and assisted with SFW Partners LLC, based out of St. Louis.companies and engagement teams with SEC reporting, Her areas of expertise include tax compliance andand other technical accounting questions/issues, including planning. She has extensive experience in the taxation ofmultiple IPOs and other capital raising transactions. small and mid-sized businesses, non-profit organizations,Christopher then relocated to the PwC Kansas City individuals, and trusts.office in 2008. He has since assisted with the successful Lisa graduated with honors from Mizzou in 1993. Shetransition of multiple audit clients. He has also has advised currently serves on the Trulaskes Accounting Advisoryteams on two multi-billion dollar acquisitions financed Board and leads her firms recruiting efforts at thethrough private placement debt, and one subsequent IPO university.along with several other capital raising transactions.Lisa is a member of the Missouri Society of CertifiedA native of St. Joseph, Missouri, Christopher relies Public Accountants, where she served on the taxationheavily on the experience and relationships gained while a committee for more than five years. In addition, she is astudent at Mizzouand is very pleased to have spent the member of the American Institute of Certified Publicvast majority of his career in the state of Missouri. Accountants.He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Lisa is actively involved in several non-profitPublic Accountants (AICPA) and is a licensed CPA in organizations, including serving as treasurer for theMissouri and Kansas. He also currently serves as treasurer Coalition for Mental Health (CHADS), an organizationof the Kansas City Downtown Council. dedicated to saving lives by advancing the awareness andHe his wife, Michelle, and their three children reside in prevention of depression and suicide among adolescents.Parkville, Missouri.He enjoys traveling, jogging, and In 2008, the Archdiocese of St. Louis recognized Lisamaximizing time with his family.for her service to high school youth programs. In 2017, Lisa was named by the St. Louis Small Business MonthlyJim Mintert as one of the top small business accountants in the metro2021 Alumni Citation of Merit area. BS Acc 93, University of Missouri Partner KPMG, LLPChristopher BriggsJim has more than 27 years of 2021 Alumni Citation of Meritexperience serving as a lead audit BS Acc 96, University of Missouriengagement partner and SEC reviewing partner on a Assurance Partnervariety of domestic and international clients in the PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP telecommunications, industrial manufacturing, and health Christopher is an assurance partner care industries and has extensive experience in capital-in the Kansas City office ofraising transactions.Jim also served a three-year rotation PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He has more than 24in KPMGs National Office in New York City.Jim is a years experience providing audit services to both publicCPA in Missouri and New York, serves as the President of 36 School of Accountancy'