Effective June 1, 2025, Jere retired as the Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Partners of Baker Tilly US, LLP, the audit and assurance arm of Baker Tilly in the United States coinciding with firm’s merger with Moss Adams LLP to create the sixth largest CPA and Advisory company in the United States.

In these roles, he and his teams were responsible for establishing and executing the Firm’s strategy to serve clients by supporting the financial reporting requirements they face. Baker Tilly US proudly performs audit and related engagements with the highest standards of quality. With a focus on serving clients with industry-focused expertise, Baker Tilly US complements the tax and advisory work provided by Baker Tilly Advisory Group, its sister company, while maintaining all appropriate independence requirements.

Jere has been with Baker Tilly and its predecessor firms since 1998. He has served continually in Senior Leadership of the firm since 2006 with roles on the Board of Partners, the Management Committee and the Risk Committee. During his time in leadership, the firm has grown from a $250 million regional player in the accounting industry to be over $3 billion in revenue in after the Moss Adams transaction, with offices across the United States and the globe. Growth has come through both organic growth and strategic mergers in major business markets including New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, the Pacific Northwest, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. In 2024, the firm continued its record on attracting strategic partners when it received a $1 billion private equity investment from Hellman & Friedman and Valeas Capital Partners.

Prior to assuming his CEO and Chair roles, Jere had previously served as the Managing Partner – Assurance and Risk. In addition to overseeing Assurance Services, in Jere’s risk management role, he was responsible for helping navigate litigation, compliance with laws and regulations and professional standards as well as overseeing the Office of the General Counsel. Since Jere assumed the role overseeing risk management in June 2012, leading the firm’s responses to all litigation and disputes, the company has prevailed successfully in all matters, with a history of success unmatched in the industry at this scale of firm.

From 2019 to 2025, Jere also served as the Chair and CEO of Future Back Insurance Company (FBIC), the Baker Tilly’s wholly owned, Delaware-based captive insurance subsidiary.

He has broad experience in assisting complex organizations with financial reporting matters, internal controls and internal audit across industries including hospitality, manufacturing, government contracting, higher education and senior/assisted living.

Jere currently serves as the Chair of the Private Company Counsel (PCC) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The PCC was created to provide advice to the FASB and to assist in the identification of cost-effective alternatives to meet the needs of users and preparers of private company financial statements. Previously, he served as a member of the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board which is the AICPA’s senior committee for auditing, attestation and quality control applicable to the performance and issuance of audit and attestation reports for nonissuers. In the past, he also served as the Chair of the AICPA’s Professional Liability Insurance Program Committee, supervising the program that makes professional liability available to more than 27,000 accounting firms in the United States.

Jere started his career with Arthur Andersen in the Assurance practice of the Washington, DC office primarily serving large public company clients. He is graduate of the Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He has been active in advising that school and the Luter School of Business at Christopher Newport University over the last 30 years regarding curriculum, fund raising and connectivity to the business community.

Jere and his wife Diane enjoy visiting their adult children, Josephine and Jared, in the Boston, MA metropolitan area, and traveling in the United States and internationally.

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