Jim Bourke

Jim is a Partner, Director of Firm Technology, Managing Director of Advisory Services, and member of the Board of Directors and Operations Committee at WithumSmith+Brown. Jim has been a frequent speaker around the globe to many Accounting Societies and International Accounting and Trade Associations, the AICPA, CIMA, State Societies of CPAs, Industry Technology Organizations, Incubators, Accelerators and others on topics specifically related to various accounting, technology, practice management and advisory services topics.

In Jim's role as Managing Director of Advisory Services, Jim heads-up the Firm's SOC/SOX/SEC, cloud solutions, business advisory, BPO, ESG, cybersecurity, data analytics, info-security and transactional services initiatives and Investment Bank for the firm.

Jim is also Global Advisory and Technology Leader for HLB International with his corporate office in London, UK. In this role Jim is responsible for helping and guiding over 300 HLB member firms around the globe in the areas of technology and expansion of advisor services. He is Past President for the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants and past Board and Council Member for the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA).

Jim has been continually named by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential people in the Accounting profession and has been named by The CPA Technology Advisor as a Top Thought Leader in Public Accounting Technology year after year.