About Us

MEET OUR TEAM

Ron Valentine

Ron R. Valentine
Founder, BS, MS, CPA

Ron worked nine years as a federal auditor with the Defense Contract Audit Agency for both the Salt Lake Valley branch office and the San Francisco and Dallas regions.

Layne Caldwell

Layne B. Caldwell
BS, MS, CPA

Layne has been with Valentine CPA for 5 years.  Prior to joining the firm, he worked for the accounting firm of Mohler Nixon & Williams in the San Francisco bay area.  Layne is the Audit Manager.

Dan Call

Daniel B. Call
BS, MS

Dan is a former federal IRS agent.  In addition to preparing tax returns, he helps clients with tax planning strategies and deductions.  Dan resolves client problems with the IRS and state taxing entities. 

Jill Boccia

Jill Boccia
Payroll

Jill has been with Valentine CPA since 2013.  She does a variety of things in the company helping with payroll, bookkeeping, and scheduling.

Adam Valentine

Adam R. Valentine

Ron worked nine years as a federal auditor with the Defense Contract Audit Agency for both the Salt Lake Valley branch office and the San Francisco and Dallas regions.

Karrie Mathewson

Karrie Mathewson
Payroll

Karrie has been working at Valentine CPA since 2003.  She is the head of the payroll department and specializes in payroll compliance.

Lara-Anne Attanasio

Lara-Anne Attanasio
Payroll

Lara-Anne has worked i nthe payroll department at Valentine CPA since 2009.  She has enjoyed learning the complexities of payroll, and enjoys helping others.

Brittany Attanasio

Brittany Attanasio
Payroll

Brittany graduated from Snow College in 2013.  She began working at Valentine CPA in February of 2015 and enjoys working in the payroll department.

Benjamin Valentine

Ben D. Valentine

Ben studied accounting at BYU-Idaho where he received his BS in Accounting.  He has been working tax season at Valentine CPA since 2009 and began working full time December of 2013

Valerie Backman

Valerie Backman
BS

Valerie has a bachelor’s in accounting and specializes in working with small businesses.  She went to college at BYU and has been with Valentine CPA since February of 2012.

Lori Green

Lori Green
BS

Lori earned her accounting degree from Idaho State University and has worked in accounting at the corporate level and for small businesses.  She has been at Valentine CPA since 2006, and specializes in small business accounting.

Rana
Bookkeeping

Rana ran a family owned company for several years and learned personally the workings of small businesses.  She enjoys accounting and seeing businesses succeed. But most of all, she enjoys spending time with her grandkids. 

Rob Simons
Financial Advisor

Carey Barriball
Insurance/Investments

Carey was a client for several years.  After being a stay at home mom for many years, she re-entered the workforce by starting her own business cleaning new residential homes for contractors.  She later took a position as an assistant to Rob with Valentine planning and got licensed in home, auto, life, and health insurance.

Lori Green

Lori Green
BS

Lori earned her accounting degree from Idaho State University and has worked in accounting at the corporate level and for small businesses.  She has been at Valentine CPA since 2006, and specializes in small business accounting.

Rana
Bookkeeping

Rana ran a family owned company for several years and learned personally the workings of small businesses.  She enjoys accounting and seeing businesses succeed. But most of all, she enjoys spending time with her grandkids.