Wayne Pinnell

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Mr. Wayne Pinnell serves as Managing Partner at Haskell & White. He also served as the Corporate Treasurer & Board Member at Orange County Technology Alliance. He assumed the role of managing partner at Haskell & White LLP in 2004, following eight years as a partner in the Firm's Audit and Business Advisory Services Group. As managing partner, He oversees the overall strategic direction and operations of the Firm, while continuing to serve clients in his role as an audit partner. Before joining Haskell & White in 1995, he spent more than 10 years at BDO Seidman, LLP, rising to the level of partner prior to his departure. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Board Member at SimpleDeal. He has experience in a wide variety of industries, including technology, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, retail, real estate, and specialized services. His clients have included both publicly traded and privately held firms, ranging in size from small, family-owned businesses to corporations with revenues in excess of $300 million annually. He has assisted clients with initial public offerings and the periodic reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission; private finance and merger/acquisition transactions; and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. He has also consulted with a number of companies on their general business operations including workflow, waste reduction, strategy, and growth/profit initiatives. He is a part-time faculty member at California State University, Fullerton, where he also has served periodically as an officer of the Accounting Advisory Association and is a member of the board of directors of the Center for Corporate Reporting & Governance and the Executive Council at CSUF. He was a member of the Professional Services Reserve of the Orange County Sheriff's Department and served in various capacities on the boards of directors for the Orange County Sheriff's Advisory Council, Drug Use is Life Abuse, the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana, and Laura's House. In January 2015, he was appointed to the board of directors of The Leading Edge Alliance, an international alliance of accounting and consulting firms of which Haskell & White is a member. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CalCPA), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, as well as the Corporate Directors Forum (San Diego), the Forum for Corporate Directors (Orange County), San Diego Venture Group, and the Association for Corporate Growth (San Diego).