Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Katie Reid is vice president of the advisory services practice at Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC, an affiliate of KraftCPAs PLLC. She oversees reimbursement and operations services, including the review and preparation of Medicare and Medicaid cost reports and other third-party reimbursement opportunities.

Katie works with a variety of clients, including medical/surgical, psychiatric, rehabilitation, and long-term acute care hospitals. Additionally, she works with skilled nursing facilities, rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers, hospice and home health agencies, and end-stage renal dialysis and other multispecialty physician practices.

Katie returned to KHC in 2023 after a previous role with the firm from 2014 to 2021.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Nashville Health Care Council
• Leadership Health Care
• Healthcare Financial Management Association

Ken Youngstead is a member in the assurance services department of KraftCPAs. He is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships, overseeing the work of engagement teams, reviewing ongoing work, approving final reports, and presenting our work to clients’ management teams and boards of directors.

As a practice leader of the nonprofit and governmental industry team, Ken works extensively with tax-exempt clients, including those that are subject to Government Auditing Standards and single audit compliance. Indicative of his reputation and expertise in the nonprofit community, Ken was a longtime board member with the Center for Nonprofit Management and held the positions of executive committee member, treasurer, and board chair.

Ken has more than 30 years of public accounting experience. He joined KraftCPAs in 2006.

Involvement

Current Involvement

• Special Olympics Tennessee, Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Finance Committee
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• AICPA Not-for-Profit Section
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Rotary Club of Nashville, President-Elect
• The Nonprofit CPAs
• National Organization for Workforce Diversity, Board of Directors, Treasurer
• MTSU Department of Accounting, Advisory Board

Previous Involvement

• Center for Nonprofit Management, Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Board Chair and Treasurer
• Special Olympics Tennessee, Board Chair and Executive Committee
• Leadership Nashville, 2006 Graduate and Education Day Committee
• Nashville Opportunities Industrialization Center, Board of Directors
• Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, Board of Directors and Treasurer
• 20:20 Leadership Alliance, Board of Directors
• Covenant Baptist Church in Bellevue, Deacon Board and Chair
• Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors, NELA Awards Volunteer and NEXT Awards Volunteer
• Nashville Junior Chamber, Board President and Treasurer
• Friends of Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Board of Directors and Treasurer

Professional Achievements

• Power Leader in Accounting, Nashville Business Journal

Lynsey Roberts is a member with the tax services team at KraftCPAs. She is responsible for building and maintaining strong client relationships, managing tax compliance engagements, and overseeing and directing engagement teams.

Lynsey has extensive experience with tax planning, consulting, and compliance for corporations and pass-through entities (including mid-size to large companies), as well as high net-worth individuals. She works with clients to provide multi-state tax consulting and compliance, tax examinations, and strategic tax planning.

Additionally, Lynsey serves as a knowledgeable resource and technical leader for clients, both internally and externally, providing in-depth research and guidance for the implementation of tax law changes. She works with clients in a variety of industries, including entertainment, real estate, manufacturing/wholesale/distribution (MWD), and professional services.

Lynsey began her professional career in public accounting in 2009 and has been at Kraft since 2012.

Involvement

Current Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• TSCPA Council
• Breakfast Club of Nashville
• Book’em, Treasurer

Prior Involvement

• Breakfast Club of Nashville, President

Mandy Thompson is the director of coding and compliance consulting with Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC (KHC), an affiliate of KraftCPAs PLLC.

Mandy consults with healthcare providers to ensure billing and coding compliance. She also performs coding and documentation audits and Office of Inspector General (OIG) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) compliance training. She works with healthcare facilities to assist with recovery audit contractor (RAC) appeals and administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings. Additionally, Mandy works with attorneys providing expert reports in OIG investigations and has successfully had cases dismissed by the OIG and the ALJ.

Mandy specializes in revenue cycle management services, including chargemaster financial management and compliance. In addition, she provides charge description master (CDM) maintenance.

With more than 20 years of healthcare experience, Mandy has worked in a variety of roles in the industry. Previously, she was a coding and compliance consultant for a regional firm, business office director for an assisted living facility, and patient account representative for the largest multi-specialty clinic in Mississippi.

Involvement

• American Academy of Professional Coders
• Healthcare Financial Management Association
• American Dental Coders Association
• American Health Information Management Association
• Nashville Health Care Council
• Leadership Health Care

Amanda Taylor is a senior manager in the client accounting and advisory services (CAAS) department of KraftCPAs. Her responsibilities include planning and executing engagements, building client relationships, and managing/reviewing the work of other team members.

Amanda has experience with financial statement preparation, consulting, and QuickBooks accounting software training, as well as business, individual, sales, personal property, and payroll tax return preparation. She works extensively with small to mid-sized, closely held businesses, including those in the service, investment management, and real estate industries.

Amanda started her professional career with KraftCPAs in 1996.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants

Allison Pate is an HR supervisor at KraftCPAs and its affiliate companies. She is responsible for assisting the campus recruiter and executive recruiter along with the director of human resources to develop and implement employment initiatives, identify and engage talented professionals for key positions throughout the firm, and oversee recruiting events at universities and other locations across the United States.

Allison joined Kraft in 2019. She has previous human resource experience in the agricultural and manufacturing industries.

Involvement

• Society of Human Resources Management

Other Professional Accomplishments

• Leadership and Service Award, University of Tennessee

Experience

• Recruitment

Brad Koenig is a member in the client accounting and advisory services (CAAS) group at KraftCPAs. He is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships, overseeing the work of engagement teams, reviewing and approving work products, and presenting our work to clients.

Brad provides services including tax research, consulting, planning, and compliance for businesses and individuals. He works extensively with clients in retail, service, nonprofit, financial, food, and recreation. Brad also provides QuickBooks training and support.

Brad, who joined Kraft in 2016, began his career in public accounting in 2007. He previously owned a company with annual revenue of $3.6 million, giving him insight into the challenges and opportunities that our entrepreneurial clients face.

Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Twelve Twelve Homeowners Association, Board Member, Treasurer

Jared King is a member in the assurance services department at KraftCPAs. He is responsible for planning and executing engagements, building client relationships, managing and reviewing the work of the assurance services team, and preparing and presenting reports to clients.

As a practice leader of the firm’s employee benefit plan industry team, Jared oversees quality control and operations of the group that audits almost 100 plans each year. In this role, he works extensively with third-party administrators, plan custodians, and ERISA attorneys.

In addition, Jared performs a variety of assurance services such as external audits, reviews, and agreed-upon procedures for clients in the construction, governmental/nonprofit, real estate, and manufacturing/wholesale/distribution (MWD) industries. His clients include many with locations in multiple states, as well as subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies.

As a registered qualified peer reviewer, Jared is an integral part of our firm’s peer review practice, which evaluates quality control systems for the accounting and auditing practices of firms throughout the United States.

Jared began his public accounting career with KraftCPAs in 2004.

Involvement

Current Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
• Association of General Contractors of America
• Construction Financial Management Association
• Harpeth Conservancy, Treasurer
• Carolina Mountain Club, Appalachian Trail Section Maintainer
• BrightStone, Board of Directors

Previous Involvement

• Historic Nashville Inc., Treasurer
• Waves Inc., Secretary and Treasurer
• Williamson County Young Leaders Council, Class of 2015

Chris Hight is the chief manager of KraftCPAs, where he oversees the operations and financial management of the firm and its affiliated companies. He assumed that role November 1, 2024.

Chris has more than 30 years of experience in public and private accounting. Prior to moving into the chief manager position, Chris was member-in-charge of the firm’s assurance services team, where he provided and supervised services such as external audits, reviews, agreed-upon procedures, merger and acquisition assistance, sale side/buy side quality of earnings calculations, due diligence, and litigation support.

Chris served as a practice leader for the firm’s manufacturing/wholesale/distribution (MWD) industry team. He has experience with MWD clients ranging from start-ups to large manufacturers with operations in foreign countries and U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies. His MWD clients have included manufacturers of food, chemicals, medical equipment, firearms, furniture, trailers, clothing, agricultural equipment, luggage, and injection molds, paper product distributors, and stamping and metal fabricators/suppliers in the automotive and aerospace industries.

Chris also served as a practice leader for the firm’s employee benefits team, where he oversees more than three dozen employee benefit plan audits annually. He has extensive experience interacting with third-party administrators, plan custodians, and ERISA attorneys.

Prior to joining KraftCPAs in 2004, Chris was senior vice president and CFO of a cellular tower company, where he supervised the acquisition of the company in a transaction worth nearly $100 million. He also worked as an audit manager for a national accounting firm, where he managed audits of both public and private companies.

As a Columbia, Tenn., resident, Chris maintains an office in Columbia office as well as the Nashville location of KraftCPAs.

Involvement

Current Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Manufacturing CPAs
• Tennessee Tech University, Accounting Advisory Board
• Tennessee Tech University, College of Business Advisory Board and Executive Committee
• Association of Corporate Growth

Previous Involvement

• North View Church of Christ, Board of Directors and Deacon
• Columbia Academy, President’s Advisory Board

Professional Accomplishments

• The Smart Business Dealmakers Conference, Panel Moderator, February 2020

Josh Hedrick is a member at Kraft Analytics, LLC, an affiliate of KraftCPAs.

Josh works with clients in multiple industries to provide business valuations, financial instrument valuation, intangible property valuation, damages computations, mergers and acquisition consulting, equity and financing transaction consulting, cash flow and capital investment modeling, forensic accounting, and other services. His clients include those in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, professional services, entertainment, transportation, software, life sciences, retail, construction, distribution, and real estate.

Josh’s valuation experience includes businesses, equity interests, debt instruments, intellectual property, and other intangible assets for investment, lending, managerial planning, compliance, accounting, tax, marital dissolution, restructuring, and litigation purposes.

He has extensive forensic experience working with attorneys on valuation issues, transactional disputes, economic damages, intellectual property, corporate investigations, employee fraud, and insurance coverage.

Josh’s experience in transaction advisory services includes valuations, fairness opinions, due diligence, and transaction structuring support related to acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, divestitures, equity investments, lending transactions, and generational transfers.

In addition, Josh provides services related to industry and competitive analysis, business strategy, compensation studies, and capital project analysis. He is frequently featured at corporate and legal industry events as a guest speaker on topics related to valuation, exit planning, mergers, and acquisitions.

Before joining Kraft Analytics in 2009, Josh provided business valuation and litigation support at a North Carolina firm. He began his professional career in the financial institutions industry.

Involvement

• National Association of Certified Analysts
• American Society of Appraisers
• Middle Tennessee Chapter of American Society of Appraisers, President
• Tennessee Justice Center, Board of Directors, Treasurer

Vikki Gray is a member in the assurance services department of KraftCPAs. She is responsible for planning and executing engagements, building client relationships, managing and reviewing the work of other team members, and preparing and presenting reports to clients.

Vikki performs audits, reviews, and compilations for a variety of clients, including nonprofit organizations, service providers, investment funds, and manufacturers. As a member of the firm’s nonprofit industry team, she works extensively with tax-exempt clients, including those that are subject to Government Auditing Standards and single audit compliance. Additionally, she is responsible for tax return review, research, and planning for tax-exempt clients.

Vikki has more than 15 years of experience in public accounting and joined KraftCPAs in 2009.

Involvement

Current Involvement

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
• The Modern Quilt Guild, Board of Directors and Treasurer
• Tennessee Tech University Accounting Advisory Board

Previous Involvement

• NeedLink Nashville, Board of Directors, Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair
• KraftCPAs Practice Development Committee, Chair
• Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra, Board of Directors and Treasurer