Judy Thompson, Managing Director of BrownThompson, has been interviewing and recruiting CFOs as well as controllers and other senior accounting and financial positions for over 25 years. Her career began in the 1970s in the top producing office of a 325-office national search firm. She founded her own financial executive search firm, Judy Thompson & Associates, in 1981, and is a principal in ThompsonRose Interim Professionals, which she co-founded in 1998 to fill the growing market for interim financial and accounting professionals.

Judy is committed to advancing the interests of San Diego’s accounting and financial community and does so through involvement in several key professional associations. She heads the membership committee for the Corporate Directors’ Forum and is on its executive board. Judy also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Corporate Finance Council and was its chairperson from 2001 to 2002. For 13 years, Judy served on the board of directors of the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and was its president from 1993-94. She is a long time member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce.



In 2000, Judy was awarded the prestigious Women Who Mean Business award by the San Diego Business Journal. Judy is listed in Who’s Who in Finance and Industry and Who’s Who in California. She has spoken for the San Diego and North County chapters of IMA, the California Society of CPAs, American Woman’s Society of CPAs, American Society of Women Accountants, and The Regional Conference for Beta Alpha Psi in San Diego. In addition, Judy has moderated the Institute of Management Accountants Accounting Day CFO Panels in San Diego for over 10 years. In September 2003, Judy moderated a CEO/CFO panel for the national conference of the American Society of Women Accountants.



To support the community, Judy founded and continues to run a monthly support group for senior financial professionals called Accountants in Transition. Participation in the group is a free means to access advice and support for accounting and financial professionals who are managing change in their careers.