Sikich Announces Three New Roles Amidst Continued Growth

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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 10, 2025--

Sikich, a professional services company specializing in consulting, technology and compliance today announced three individuals who will assume expanded responsibilities within its compliance practice. These newly created roles are critical to the company’s ongoing commitment to grow strategically and gain market share. Those roles include:

• Melanie Barnes, CPA, will lead Assurance in addition to specifically overseeing the for-profit assurance practice. Barnes has more than 20 years of public accounting and industry experience and has played a key role in for-profit assurance at Sikich. In this new role, Barnes will oversee clients’ compliance needs to help efficiently scale over the life of their business. Her deep expertise in the middle-market will help clients take their business to the next level.
• Matt Denton, CPA, MBA, will lead growth initiatives in this newly elevated role. With a history of building long-standing relationships for the past 12 years, he will leverage his deep expertise in core industries to deliver growth strategies across the practice and for clients.
• Kurt Walcutt, CPA, will assume leadership of Tax, drawing from his years of experience providing a broad range of accounting, tax and business advisory services to clients in various industries. Walcutt’s 35 years of tax expertise includes tax planning, corporate structure, estate planning, merger & acquisition transactions and succession planning for clients across industries.

“Agile leadership across our compliance practice is the key to our next phase of growth,” said Richard Lynch, Sikich principal leading compliance solutions. “I’m confident that this leadership team will infuse innovation and creativity across our practice as businesses continually seek strategic compliance partners.”

To learn more about Sikich, visit Sikich.com.

About Sikich

Sikich offers the public and private sectors a diverse platform of professional services across consulting, technology and compliance. Highly specialized and hands-on teams deliver integrated solutions rooted in deep industry experience. Our approach is strategically and thoughtfully designed to help our clients, teams and communities accelerate success.

Sikich has approximately 2,000 team members and operates across North America, the UK and EMEA.

Sikich practices in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Sikich CPA LLC is a licensed CPA firm that provides audit and attest services to its clients, and Sikich LLC and its subsidiaries provide tax and business advisory services to its clients. Sikich CPA LLC has a contractual arrangement with Sikich LLC under which Sikich LLC supports Sikich CPA LLC’s performance of its professional services. Sikich LLC and its subsidiaries are not licensed CPA firms.

“Sikich” is the brand name under which Sikich CPA LLC and Sikich LLC provide professional services. The entities under the Sikich brand are independently owned and are not liable for the services provided by any other entity providing services under the Sikich brand. The use of the terms “our company”, “we” and “us” and other similar terms denote the alternative practice structure of Sikich CPA LLC and Sikich LLC.

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