LWBJ Financial LLC announced the
election of Paul Juffer as managing partner. Juffer, a senior partner and one
of the firm's founders, replaces Marv Debner, who left the firm to take a
position with BKD LLP, a national accounting firm based in Springfield, Mo. The
national firm had expressed an interest in purchasing LWBJ, which led to
Debner's decision to join the larger firm, said JD Geneser, an LWBJ senior
partner. Debner, who joined LWBJ as a senior partner in 2007, was named
managing partner in July 2010. "It was a very amicable parting of
ways," Geneser said. "We're extremely excited about the election of Paul
and very bullish about the future."