Partner | Entrepreneurial Services
Barry Jacobs is a Partner in FGMK’s Entrepreneurial Services Practice with nearly 25 years of public accounting experience providing accounting, assurance, and business advisory services to closely held companies and their owners. He works with businesses throughout their lifecycle, delivering practical financial guidance and overseeing audit, review, compilation, and preparation engagements. Barry also leads FGMK’s national SEC custody audit practice, serving SEC-registered investment advisers located throughout the country.
Barry specializes in assurance services for privately held businesses and financial services organizations, with a concentration of audits of hedge funds and SEC-registered investment advisors. He built FGMK’s national SEC custody audit practice and also works with a diverse client base within FGMK’s fund administration practice. He has extensive experience helping clients navigate complex accounting, assurance, and regulatory requirements. In addition to assurance services, Barry advises clients on financial reporting, period-end close processes, operational consulting, and accounting matters that support sound business decision-making.
Barry has extensive experience serving clients in the asset management, private equity and venture capital, real estate, technology, manufacturing and distribution, healthcare, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, construction, gaming, food and beverage, franchising, and professional services industries.
Barry joined FGMK in 2004 and was promoted to Partner in 2017. Prior to joining FGMK, he worked at PwC, where he developed a strong foundation in audit and assurance services for privately held businesses and financial services clients.