Moving up in Southern Arizona

Miller joins local BBB as spokeswoman

Better Business Bureau serving Southern Arizona welcomes Susann Miller as communications manager.

Miller most recently was director of the Women’s Business Center of Southern Arizona; under her leadership, it was nominated for the Small Business Administration’s WBC Center of the Year and NAWBO’s Strategic Partner of the Year.

Miller was honored as the 2014 Small Business Advocate of the Year by the Minority Small Business Alliance of Southern Arizona.

She is an ambassador for Make-A-Wish Arizona and has served on the boards of Minority Small Business Alliance of Southern Arizona and Good to Glam.

Dudas, Jaramillo, Johnson join council

The Southern Arizona Leadership Council has three new members this year: Jon Dudas, senior vice president and secretary for the University of Arizona; Lynette Jaramillo, CEO of Casa de la Luz Hospice; and Nancy Johnson, CEO of El Rio Community Health Center.

Dudas previously worked for the U.S. government, most recently as under secretary of Commerce for intellectual property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark office.

Jaramillo previously was Arizona area manager for a national home care provider, and was an official at a privately owned home health agency in Tucson before partnering in 1998 to start Casa de la Luz Hospice.

Johnson holds master’s degrees in nursing, marketing and business. She spent 15 years at Tucson Medical Center and serves as an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She is a recipient of the UA’s Cecil B. Hart Humanitarian Award.

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Perales named CEO at Changemaker High

Changemaker High School has named Luis Perales as chief executive officer, succeeding Judith Anderson.

The tuition-free public charter school in Tucson has a special emphasis on social justice and activism.

Perales, who holds a master’s degree, has served as the school’s chief academic officer since 2012, helping to create free Innovation Camps open to all Tucson eighth-graders, a student-run farmer’s market and student-driven community development projects, the school said in a news release. Changemaker is the only applicant from Arizona selected to present at the 2016 International Social Innovation Research Conference in Glasgow, Scotland in September.

HBL CPAs announces merger, shareholders

Tucson accounting firms HBL CPAs, P.C. and Braun P.C. have merged.

The combined firm remains HBL CPAs, P.C. and consists of more than 45 employees, including seven partners, at 5656 E. Grant Road.

In addition, the firm announced two new shareholders: Jacquie Ivey and Laura Randol.

Ivey, a CPA, has more than 15 years of public accounting experience focused on retail, construction, and professional services industries. She received her bachelor’s of science in accounting from the University of Phoenix.

Randol, also a CPA, has been promoted from audit manager and has been with HBL since 2013. She is a regular speaker at the Nonprofit Organizations’ Financial Administrator’s Network and holds a bachelor’s of science in accounting from Linfield College.