Position: BKD CPAs & Advisors, partner.

Birth date/childhood home: Sept. 7, 1969/Del City.

Education: University of Oklahoma, bachelor's in accounting; Oklahoma City University, Master of Business Administration/finance.

Family: Johanna, a native of Costa Rica, former orthodontist assistant and wife of 17 years (They met at a Dallas gym.); daughter Karina, 20, a junior accounting major at the University of Arkansas (Brian adopted her when he married her mother.) and sons Alec, 17, a junior at Crossings Christian School; and Brian Andrew B.A., 9, a fourth-grader at Haskell Elementary School in Edmond.

Housing addition: Mesa Pointe in southwest Edmond.

Church: Crossings Community Church.

Professional/community involvement: A new board member of the Oklahoma City Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors, he's chairing the 30th reunion of his Del City High School Class of 1987 and serving on the OU advisory-corporation board of his fraternity, Delta Upsilon.

Favorite nonfiction book: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle. I try always to be 100 percent present.

Hobbies: OU football (He started going to the home games when he was 3 with his dad who passed on his season tickets. Amend now takes his sons.); boating and camping on Lake Texoma, where they have a place; competing in triathlons and marathons (He's done some 50 and 17, respectively, including the original marathon in Greece.); collecting Corvettes and Harleys; and powered paragliding.

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