FORT MYERS, Fla. (Feb. 20, 2015) – Lori Sampson-Wilson, shareholder with Myers, Brettholtz & Company, PA, Certified Public Accountants & Business Consultants announces that Ariel De Cardenas, Blake Weeks and Ayla Zeigler have joined the firm.

De Cardenas is an auditor for the firm and received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Hodges University. He is currently preparing to take the CPA exam and eventually will enroll into a master program to complete his credit hours in order to obtain his CPA license. Born and raised in Cuba, he moved to the U.S. in 2004.

Originally from Southwest Florida, Weeks is also an auditor for the firm and received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Central Florida. He is currently a master’s degree candidate at Florida Gulf Coast University majoring in accounting and taxation.

Zeigler moved from Atlanta to Southwest Florida in 2003. She is a bookkeeper in the small business department for the firm. Zeigler most recently served as assistant manager in the new unit development team for Chuck E. Cheese where she was responsible for opening multiple new locations, training more than 55 new employees at a time and helping to develop new training programs and videos that were distributed to more than 500 locations.

Myers Brettholtz & Company, PA serves clients across the nation by performing accounting and auditing, tax preparation, bookkeeping and consulting. The firm has 28 staff members and provides accounting and bookkeeping services for timeshares, nonprofit organizations, condominium and homeowner associations and medical practices as well as individuals and businesses.

Myers, Brettholtz & Company, PA is the outgrowth of a regional CPA firm first established in Miami in 1953 and the Fort Myers branch opened in 1979.

For more information, visit www.mbcopa.com or call 239-939-5775.