Chris is an accounting services partner who leads the firm’s accounting & advisory services department. He has more than 25 years of accounting, auditing, business valuation and consulting experience. Chris’s experience includes servicing clients in many industries, such as distribution, manufacturing, entertainment, construction, not for profit, restaurants, advertising, healthcare, and professional service firms. He shares oversight of the employee benefit plan audit practice of the firm.
Chris was born and raised in Kalamazoo Michigan and moved to the Chicago area in 1998. When Chris is not in the office (or at a client’s office), he can be found with one of his three children at their various activities around Northbrook, or on the golf course.
Skills/Practices
- Audits, reviews, and compilations of financial statements for closely held businesses
- Audit services for employee benefit plans including 401k’s and ESOP’s
- Audit services for not for profit entities
- Business valuations for closely held businesses
- Corporate, partnership, and individual tax planning
- Controllership services to clients seeking to outsource functions of their accounting department
- Business accounting and bookkeeping services
- Accounting software installation and support
- Consulting related to internal control procedures and risk assessment
- Family office services for high net worth, multi-generational families
Education
- Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Business Administration, Western Michigan University
- Certified Valuation Analyst
Memberships
- Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Member of the Illinois CPA Society
- Member of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts