Meet Our People
HORNE LLP
Franchise Leadership
Jason Saulters
Jason Saulters, CPA, CGMA
- Managing Partner
- jason.saulters@hornellp.com
- Mobile, AL
- Direct: 251.450.3016
We are privileged to serve our clients as a strategic partner, guiding them through challenging franchise industry environments and decisions on their way to achieving their full potential. HORNE’s service offerings are unique to franchise accounting. Our team combines the broad technical expertise of a CPA firm with innovative technology solutions, fresh industry insights, data benchmarking, and best practices advisory. And we do it with an unrivaled focus on client relationships.
Jeffrey N. Aucoin
Jeffrey N. Aucoin, CPA/CFF, CFE, CIA
- Direct: 225.341.3115
I am passionate about helping clients manage their financial reporting, while mitigating risks. This allows them to focus on managing their operations, while helping their customers. We also provide services to help clients pay vendors and team members, fulfill various regulatory obligations, and make strategic, anticipatory decisions. Throughout my career, I have been dedicated to helping business owners resolve complex business problems.
Dee Boykin Jr.
The key to helping our clients succeed is to always approach each client relationship with a strong vested interest in them, above everything else. I treat each client's business as if it were my own, giving it my full attention and effort as we provide a complete outsourced solution for their accounting, tax, and consulting needs. HORNE becomes an integral part of their team and our role transcends the typical client-CPA relationship, which is really satisfying.
Emily Parrish
We exist to support and implement our clients’ mission and goals—collaborating with them as a strategic partner focused on delivering an unrivaled client experience. Throughout my career, I’ve served clients across a number of industries through accounting and assurance services and financial statement analysis. I am passionate about collaborating with clients to meet their goals, especially as they address strategic growth needs, and solving problems before they happen.
Michael R. Sassano
Franchise requires a very particular set of knowledge, experience and accounting skills. I help clients succeed by providing industry-specific experience, insights and perspective along with a proven, dedicated accounting practices structure. I am a former top restaurant brand executive and 25 store franchise owner of Domino’s Pizza. Clients know that I can support them with relationships, proven strategies, best practices and insights that come from real industry experience.
Dustin Taylor
At HORNE, we go further than a traditional client-CPA relationship — we help franchisees meet their long-term goals through a strategic partnership. I value those relationships, and with a seat at their table, I’m able to provide insights, collaboration and ongoing dialogue throughout the year to help clients mitigate taxes and plan for the future.
Leslie Barton
Leslie serves as director of operations for franchise services at HORNE. She focuses on strategic initiatives in our recurring service offerings, maximizing resources and streamlining processes. She oversees the team of compilation, accounts payable and payroll specialists to ensure quality and timely results are delivered to clients on a recurring basis.
Thad Burke
Thad is a senior tax manager at HORNE where he provides tax and consulting services for franchise clients. Thad joined HORNE in 2019 and has 10 years of experience in public accounting managing a variety of tax engagements focusing on large multistate entities and high wealth individuals. He also has experience in private accounting.
Chandler Croom
Chandler is a manager in franchise services at HORNE where he specializes in reviewing financial statements and managing advisory services for various franchise clients across the country. Chandler joined the firm in 2014 with previous experience working for a regional accounting firm.
BJ Gilbert
BJ is a senior manager in franchise services at HORNE where he focuses on providing business accounting and advisory services to multi-unit restaurant franchisees. He concentrates on financial statement analysis, operations consulting and tax planning services.
Ann Goss
Ann serves as a tax director for HORNE where she specializes in serving franchise clients by providing tax planning and compliance services. Ann joined HORNE in 1991. She has both tax and assurance experience, but has focused on tax and advisory services for most of her career.
Cathy T. Haltom
Cathy T. Haltom
- Director
- cathy.haltom@hornellp.com
- Grenada, MS
- Direct: 662.227.3764
- FAX: 662.226.6799
Cathy is a director in franchise services at HORNE LLP where she focuses on providing general accounting and business advisory services to multi-unit quick service restaurant franchisees. She joined the firm in 1989 and has more than 30 years of experience performing various accounting functions for clients, including payroll services, accounts payable, sales and use tax preparation, and financial statement preparation.
Lauren Hanat
Lauren Hanat, CPA, CIA, CAMS, CFE
- Senior Manager
- Lauren.hanat@hornellp.com
- Gulfport, MS
- Direct: 228.206.5934
Lauren is a senior manager at HORNE where she focuses on providing business advisory and accounting services to franchise clients. Lauren is dedicated to not only providing financial and regulatory reporting services, but also delivering anticipatory insights and operational process improvements.
Mary Overstreet
Mary is a tax director in the franchise practice at HORNE where she provides her clients with consulting and tax services. With a focus in managing tax engagements that center around estate and succession planning for franchisees, her expertise in tax services allows her clients to spend their time, finances, and energy on growing their businesses.
Janis Pearman
Janis is a payroll director at HORNE specializing in business advisory and accounting services for franchise clients.
Richard Shirley
Richard is a director at HORNE where he focuses on providing business advisory and accounting services to franchise clients. He specializes in working with franchisees to identify operational inefficiencies and to make suggestions to increase profitability.
Karen L. Taylor
Karen serves as a director in franchise at HORNE where she specializes in providing client accounting and business advisory services to multi-unit restaurant franchisees. She focuses on financial statement analysis and operations consulting. Karen has a tax background as well, allowing her to integrate operational and tax consulting.
Carla Wallace
Carla is a senior manager in franchise services at HORNE. She serves as the director of technology for franchise and is committed to serving our client by ensuring access to the most current digital tools in the industry. Prior to joining HORNE in 2012, she held roles in various accounting areas including payroll, executive management and even small business owner.
Charles Arinder
Charles is a business advisory and accounting services manager in the franchise practice at HORNE. Using his team’s compilation and financial report production, his primary role is to analyze financial data and create conversations about methods of improvement. He specializes in helping restaurant franchisees succeed by processing, analyzing and communicating their financial data.
Joelle Diamond
Joelle is a business advisory and accounting services manager at HORNE where she is responsible for serving franchise clients. She provides business accounting and financial reporting services that focus on improving processes and enhancing control environments.
Courtney Espinosa
Courtney is a manager in franchise at HORNE where she provides general accounting and business advisory services to quick service restaurant franchisees. Courtney provides financial statement review and analysis, as well as general consulting to help her clients expand and strengthen their businesses.
Mahlia Fritz
Mahlia is a manager at HORNE where she helps franchise clients with their tax filings, reporting and other financial operations. She works with clients to anticipate changes and identify problems to optimize their business and ensure continuous improvement.
David Fugol
David serves as a manager in franchise services at HORNE. He concentrates on providing general accounting and business advisory services to multi-unit quick service restaurant franchisees. He primarily focuses on the franchise industry preparing and reviewing financial statements and has daily communication with clients.
Austin Hall
Austin serves as business development manager for the franchise focus area at HORNE. He researches potential leads, develops and deploys creative strategies for strategic growth and assists in closing efforts.
Mary Havard
Mary serves as a manager in franchise services at HORNE. She primarily focuses on providing general accounting and business advisory services to multi-unit, quick service restaurant franchisees. She serves on the general accounting service resource team and is a liaison to the technology division for MAS200 issues for the firm.
Nona Henderson
Nona is an accounts payable manager in franchise at HORNE. She supervises the accounts payable team by maintaining accurate records and control reports to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Leslie James
Leslie is a manager at HORNE. She serves and leads financial prep teams with focus on providing general accounting and business advisory services to multi-unit, quick service restaurant franchisees.
Scott Johnson
Scott is a business advisory and accounting manager in the franchise practice at HORNE. He specializes in providing business insights and accounting services to multiunit franchisees. He also works to help his clients interpret financial data to improve their business processes.
Susan MacRitchie
Susan is a manager at HORNE where she serves franchise clients. She leads the compilation team to ensure excellence in client service with accurate and timely financial, sales tax and compliance reporting. Susan also works to create efficiencies by streamlining client and internal processes and data flows to improve accuracy and deliverability.
Heather Parker
Heather is a franchise manager for HORNE. She specializes in process automation solutions and other development to improve efficiencies, mostly in the areas of data-driven applications.
Amy Parnell
Amy is a manager at HORNE where she serves franchise clients. She is responsible for preparing and reviewing financial statements, developing new team members’ knowledge of financial statement preparation and managing large projects. She joined HORNE in 1998 and has more than 20 years of accounting experience.
