March 22 (Reuters) - Ernst & Young LLP has hired threeexecutive directors and a principal across its national taxdepartment, financial services office and national tax group.
Stephen Cranford will join the firm as an executive directorin the national tax department, focused on tax technologytransformation. Cranford joins from IBM Corp.
Andrew Cooper, who has previously worked with PwC, joins thefirm as an executive director focused on tax technology andtransformation for its financial services office.
Linda Kim, previously a managing director at Deloitte &Touche LLP, joins Ernst & Young's national tax group as anexecutive director focused on tax technology for the tax andfinance operate practice.
Mark Opper joins the national tax department of Ernst &Young as a principal in partnership transaction planning andeconomics. Opper joins the firm from Deloitte Tax.(Reporting by Arunima Banerjee in Bengaluru)