Jim is the founder of SMART and has been a visionary in the accounting and business advisory services industry for over twenty years. Through his keen anticipation of market needs and trends, he has strategically provided companies of all sizes and industries with practical and cost effective accounting, assurance, tax, business, technology and financial advisory services. For his vision, Jim has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the accounting profession by Accounting Today.

Jim founded SMART in 1988 and has built one of the fastest growing full service business advisory, consulting and accounting firms in the country growing revenue to $133 million in 2006. SMART has more than 650 employees with offices across the U.S. in Albany, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, and Washington, DC, and internationally in Amsterdam and London. The firm has been named as the 21st largest accounting firm in the U.S. by Accounting Today Report in 2006, ranked as the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 5th largest CPA Firms, and is one of the fastest growing companies in the Philadelphia region. (more...)