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Paul A Coston, JR, CPA/PFS, MST, CLU, CHFC, CFP

Paul Coston, President and co-founder, established the firm with M.J. McIsaac in 1987 following five years of prior public accounting experience. In addition to his management role, Paul is the firm's authority on estate planning and certain income tax technical matters. Paul is also licensed as an investment adviser representative.

Paul is a member of the Maine Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. 

Paul earned his bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Maine at Machias in 1978 and a Master of Science in Taxation from Bentley College in 1989.

M.J. McIsaac, CPA/PFS

M.J. McIsaac, Vice-President and managing shareholder, established the firm with Paul Coston in June of 1987. Prior to that M.J. worked several years at Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company in the loan department and six years as business manager/carpenter of a local building contracting firm. During all of these years M.J. was moonlighting doing payrolls and income tax returns.

M.J. has clients from a wide variety of coastal Maine activities. They include individuals, partnerships, S corporations, C corporations, estates and trusts, and limited liability companies. He truly enjoys all aspects of financial planning. M.J. is also licensed as an investment adviser representative.

M.J. is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Maine Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is a Trustee of the MDI YMCA, past Treasurer and Director of the MDI YMCA Board of Directors, and is an active board member of the Jesup Memorial Library. He attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and graduated from the University of Maine in Orono in 1975 with a degree in Political Science.

Kevin R. Buza, CPA

Kevin Buza joined the firm in 2000 following six years of prior public accounting experience. His prior experience includes five-and-a-half years with Laurie A. Cramer, CPA in Machias, Maine specializing in audit, review and compilation services (especially for local governmental units and not-for-profit organizations). In addition to directly serving clients, Kevin also acts as the firm's quality control director, financial statement technical reviewer and webmaster. Kevin is also licensed as an investment adviser representative.

Kevin is a member of the Maine Society of Certified Public Accountants. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Pensacola Christian College in 1990 with a minor in accounting.

Kevin is actively pursuing Financial Peace. As part of this effort, he has launched a part-time computer consulting endeavor: Banj Computer Services. Also, Kevin's wife operates Living Word Dyed.  Find Kevin on LinkedIn.

Kevin and his wife Barbara (artist, nurse and mother) have three daughters and attend church at Ellsworth Assembly of God.

Melinda M. Hamblen, CPA, MBA

Melinda joined the firm in October of 2003. She is a native of Deer Isle and has tremendous appreciation for the coastal communities of Maine. Her prior experience includes 5 years in public accounting and 7 years working in financial management for private industry.

Melinda is a member of the Maine Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Melinda earned her Bachelors degree and her Masters of Business degree from the University of Maine, Orono. She received her MBA in 1992 and became a CPA in 1996.

Jonathan Boucher, EA

Jonathan Boucher joined the firm in 1991. For three years he managed the firm's payroll service. Since then he has performed a variety of duties including tax return preparation, general and payroll accounting, and financial statement preparation. He specializes in QuickBooks consulting.

Jonathan is active in a number of community based activities and organizations including serving in a local church.

Jonathan earned his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Maine in 1993.

Jonathan was granted the Enrolled Agent designation by the Internal Revenue Service in 2006 after passing a rigorous examination.

Patricia Pottle, CPA

Tricia joined the firm in January of 2007. She is a graduate of Husson College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. She became a CPA in 1994. Her family is from and still lives in Brownville Junction, Maine, but she now resides in Surry with her husband Kevin. Her prior experience includes 15 years in public accounting and 8 years working in financial management for private industry. 

Tricia is a member of the Maine Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She is also licensed as an investment adviser representative.

 

Ron Wrobel, CPA

Ron joined the firm in the summer of 2008 and has been a CPA since 1988. Prior to joining the firm, Ron was Chief Financial Officer of The First National Bank of Bar Harbor for five years and before that worked at KPMG Peat Marwick in Portland, Maine for six years on the audit staff and as an audit manager. Ron has a Masters in Accountancy degree from Bowling Green State University, Bachelors degree from the University of Maine at Presque Isle, and is a member of the Maine Society of CPA's.

In addition to providing personal and business tax preparation and planning services, Ron has significant experience working with borrowers at the Bank, including credit analysis and troubled loan situations requiring cash flow, budgeting and debt structuring preparation as well as internal control assessment and implementation. In Ron's first year with the firm, he has been active assisting clients with Offers In Compromise with the IRS.

Ron lives in Bar Harbor with his wife Rena and has two grown sons. Ron is an active member of the Bar Harbor Rotary Club as a past President and current Treasurer. Ron is also an active member of the MDI YMCA serving as Chairman of the Board of Trustees.  

Ron is also licensed as an investment adviser representative.

 

Trish Howard

Trish Howard joined the firm in 1996 following thirteen years of prior experience in finance. Her prior experience includes working in the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company loan department.

Trish is a wife and proud mother of two and is active in the Trenton Parent-Teacher Committee and Ladies Auxiliary.

Trish has a strong commitment to customer service and will greet you at the door or over the telephone with a smile and willingness to serve.

Susan Richardson

Susan Richardson joined the firm in 2002 providing extra help during income tax season. Susan has taken 2 sections of the CPA exam and is awaiting her grades on those sections, she hopes to complete the process in 2007.



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