Accounting Professionals

  Kathy Meeks
  Senior Associate
Kathy joined Cornerstone CPA Services in May of 2007.  She is married with three children and one antique cat.  Kathy has 25 tax seasons' experience.  She has previously worked in national, regional, and local firms, and really enjoys small and family owned business clients.

Kathy completed two degrees at Central Missouri State University, one in accounting and one in business management.  She completed the CPA exam in one attempt and very much enjoys learning new accounting software. 

In the time not consumed by her accounting work and cat, Kathy enjoys reading and cooking.

Jim Twenter
  Controller
Jim joined the Cornerstone team in January 2005 as the firm’s Controller. He came to the firm with over 30 years of past working experience in a wide variety of cost accounting, financial analyst and financial manager roles. Over 20 years of his past working career was with Marion Laboratories and its successor companies. At Cornerstone, Jim is responsible for the firm’s Payroll, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable processing, as well as the General Ledger reporting for actual and forecasted financial results.

Jim was born and raised in a farming community in central Missouri. Jim has raised a family and made a home in the Kansas City metropolitan area with his wife Sarah and their two grown sons, Grant and Kyle. For fun, Jim enjoys watching many types of spectator sports, plays in a few of those sports and enjoys landscaping work in his yard at home.

He has both a BSBA degree in Accounting and Business Administration from Rockhurst University as well as a MBA in Business Administration from Webster University.

 Sherri Eshnaur
 Accounting Associate
Sherri was born in Austin, Texas.  When she was 6, Sherri moved to Brisbane, Australia where she lived until she was 12.  She then moved back to the U.S. and lived in Arizona.

Sherri has two children, Allen, 13 and Megan, 10, both of whom were born in Phoenix, Arizona.  Sherri has loved working in accounting field for many years.  She joined the United States Army Reserves in September of 2006, and leaves for basic training at the end of April 2007. She looks forward to serving her country and finishing her education

Sherri joined the Cornerstone team in March of 2007.

 Linda Thayer
 Administrative Associate
Linda was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. After returning from Stratford Women’s College in Tampa, Florida, Linda began her career at a local CPA/law firm in Syracuse. In 1979, Linda relocated to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she worked in the audit department of Ernst & Young. Seven years later, Linda chose to be a stay at home mom to her three children. Relocating to Kansas City in 1991 because of her husband’s job opportunity, Linda spent ten years at home, until her youngest went off to school. She went back to work, part time, at a church office, and Applebee’s International in the legal department, before landing again at a CPA firm. Linda spent eight years at Mitchell & Company, a small CPA firm in Overland Park, where she was Office Manager. Desiring a larger office setting, Linda came to Cornerstone CPA Services in November of 2005.

Although Linda’s children are nearly grown, they occupy much of her time and energy. During the few minutes she finds each day, Linda opens up the gym most mornings to get a good work-out and also enjoys reading and scrapbooking her children’s lives thus far. Linda is a member of Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Olathe.

  Michael Bunn
 Investment Advisor Assistant
Michael joined the Cornerstone team in December of 2005. While his primary focus will be with Cornerstone Wealth Advisors, he will be working for the Cornerstone CPA and Insurance Advisor firms as well.

Michael grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.

Prior to Cornerstone, Michael was in Natchez, Mississippi where he managed Natchez Guest House Historic Inn and Garden Court Bistro, in an antebellum mansion built in 1842. After moving back to Kansas, Michael worked as a designer and bookkeeper for Absolute Florist of Westwood Hills.

Michael enjoys reading, singing, and playing piano and guitar with his new band.
 

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