James is the CEO 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.
James founded the company in 1988 and has built one of the fastest growing full service business advisory and accounting companies in the country growing revenue to $44.3 million in 2003. Smart has more than 550 employees with offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Baltimore/D.C., Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. The company was named as the 28th largest accounting company in the U.S. by Accounting Today in 2005, listed in the Top 100 List of Accounting companies by Public Accounting Report and Bowman’s, ranked as the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 5th largest CPA companies in the Delaware Valley, and according to the Philadelphia 100, is one of the fastest growing companies in the Philadelphia region. |