Sikich Elects M&A, Turnaround Veteran Chris Geier as Next Managing Partner and CEO

Sikich LLP CEO Jim Sikich will retire at the close of 2017, handing off to Chris Geier, who will assume the Managing Partner and CEO roles as of January 1 2017.

As managing partner and CEO, Geier will oversee the firm's strategic and financial planning and guide future growth, including mergers and acquisitions across the accounting, advisory service and growing technology areas. He is presently partner-in-charge of the firm's advisory services and investment banking practice, and a member of the executive board. He was elected by the firm's partners.

Geier is also a veteran turnaround and mergers-and-acquisition consultant, poised to see the company through its aggressive 10-year growth plan.

Sikich plans to grow its technology services practice from $60 million to $250 million in 10 years by expanding on both east and west coasts, both organically and through acquisitions. The 10-year plan also involves growing the entire company from $100 million to $550 million and setting up an offshore development hub and six to eight regional hubs.

Geier joined Sikich in 2008. He has held C-level operating roles at both private and publicly traded companies and has more than 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions across multiple industries. According to his Sikich bio, he founded GEI Capital in 1993, a distressed private equity and turnaround consulting firm, and GEI Advisory in 1995, an international mergers and acquisitions advisory and management consulting firm where he completed transactions both domestically and abroad. Before that he was a regional manager ...