PMB Helin Donovan LLP, the fast-growing Russell Bedford member firm in Texas and San Francisco, has opened an office in Dallas and has appointed two new partners. The firm now has 15 partners and a total of 92 employees.

Jeffrey Jamieson has been brought on board as a new audit partner in the newly-opened Dallas office. Jeff was previously with the Dallas office of a Big-4 firm, where he worked on real estate, financial services and technology companies and on the audits of major sports teams.

In addition, PMB Helin Donovan has promoted Michelle Strain to audit partner in its Austin office. Michelle started with the firm in 2008 and previously worked for a Big-4 firm in Austin.

PMB Helin Donovan was recently listed as the 3rd largest independent accounting firm in the Austin Business Journal survey of accounting firms, one of the 50 fastest growing private companies headquartered in Austin, and received an honorable mention in the 2009 Inside Public Accounting best-managed accounting firms survey.