About: Our Team
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Alan M. Friedman
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Alan Friedman is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Friedman, Kannenberg & Company, P.C. (“FKCo”). Alan has over 40 years of experience in providing accounting, tax and consulting services to the music industry. Learn more
Donald A. Kannenberg, Jr.
Co-Founder & Partner
Don is the Accounting and Tax services Partner and co-founder of FKCo. Don has over 40 years of experience in providing accounting, tax, consulting and business valuation services to a wide variety of small businesses and large business enterprises. Learn more
Amy L. Trudelle, E.A.
Accounting & Tax Manager
Amy is an accounting professional with over 23 years of experience in accounting, financial reporting and tax compliance. She specializes in working with closely-held businesses, providing comprehensive support in year-end accounting, tax planning, and compliance engagements. Learn more
Daniel L. Jobe, E.A.
Managing Director, Music Retail Consultant
Daniel is the Manager of our firm’s professional staff and is an accounting professional, specializing in all-things-music-retail. Daniel has over 25 years of experience in providing accounting, financial reporting, tax, retail store operations, business valuation and AIM Software services. Learn more
Evan M. Kalish, E.A.
Accounting & Tax Manager
Evan is our firm’s resident accounting and tax specialist to our music industry clients. Evan is our “go to” guy for foreign and multistate tax compliance reporting. Evan handles the accounting and tax affairs for musicians, bands, recording studios, producers, engineers, content creators, musical equipment manufacturers, indie labels, and other music industry clients. Learn more
Jeremy A. Friedman
Director of Operations/Tax Accountant
Jeremy brings over 15 years of private equity experience to FKCo, and now specializes in general accounting, tax and management advisory services for our music industry clients. Jeremy now also manages our firm’s internal and client-facing Information Technology services and software applications. Learn more
Kathy C. Campbell, CPA
Accounting & Tax Manager
Kathy has been with FKCo and has provided accounting and tax services to our wide range of clients for over 30 years. She specializes in financial statement compilation and review services and all levels of business and individual tax compliance and research, and manages our firm’s Peer Review engagement. Learn more
Kayley E. Armington, CPA
Accounting & Tax Senior
Kayley is an accounting & tax professional and has garnered a variety of excellent client service skills. With her 7 years of experience at FKCo, her skillset now includes providing accounting, tax return preparation and consulting services to our vibrant client segment of music instrument and product retailers of all types, sizes and complexities, located across the United States. Learn more
Lori A. Gates, CPA
Music Retail Accounting Manager
Lori handles the year-end accounting engagements for many of our music instrument & product retailing clients. She joined FKCo in 2017 with over 20 years of CPA firm experience and 20 years of music retail accounting experience, in addition to her extensive hands-on experience with AIM Music Retail Accounting Software. Learn more
Madison J. Casner
Social Media Director, Staff Accountant
Madison joined our firm in January early 2025 after working as an Audit Intern at the international accounting firm of KPMG, where she assisted in various financial statement audit tasks. She also manages all of our firm’s social media including all content creation and digital content editing for all of our firm’s various social media platforms. Learn more
Melissa K. Pysar, CPA
Accounting & Tax Senior
Melissa joined FKCo in 2017 as an accounting and administrative intern, and now handles and manages a wide array of accounting and tax responsibilities for a wide variety of our clients. She has helped our firm streamline key processes—such as 1099 and property tax reporting—having a significant positive impact on our operational efficiency and client servicing. Learn more
Meredith L. Jobe
Office Manager
Meredith is our firm’s Office Manager and handles the entirety of our firm’s administrative tasks. Meredith joined FKCo in 2017 to manage and lead the tax return assembly team. Demonstrating skills in office administration and leadership, Meredith was promoted and now handles all of the administration of our firm. Learn more
Toni N. Minelli
Accounting & Tax Senior
Toni is one of the most versatile members of the FKCo team. She works as an accounting and tax professional and handles a variety of specialized client service areas, such as small business accounting, corporate and individual taxation, tax research, software application implementation, graphic design & marketing, and improvements to our firm’s internal workflow processes. Learn more