Bob is Co-Partner in Charge of KPMG’s Practice Advisory/SEC Group in the Department of Professional Practice, which is responsible for providing accounting, financial reporting, and SEC practice support throughout KPMG.
Bob has extensive experience with SEC filing matters, mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting issues, corporate governance matters, and business process controls. Bob has served as an engagement partner on some of KPMG’s largest audit clients across a variety of industries. Bob holds the special designation of SEC Reviewing Partner having responsibility for reviewing the filings of some of KPMG’s most complex public companies. While at KPMG Bob has authored numerous articles on emerging accounting and reporting issues affecting SEC registrants and has been a featured contributor to Compliance Week. Bob is also a member of the FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF).
Prior to rejoining KPMG in 2014, Bob was the Global Head of Financial Reporting and Accounting Policy at AIG (American International Group, Inc.). In this role, Bob led teams responsible for AIG's global consolidations, financial reporting data governance, SEC reporting, financial due diligence, and global accounting policy.
Earlier in his career Bob served as a Professional Accounting Fellow and then was appointed the Senior Advisor to the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. While at the SEC, Bob advised the SEC’s Chief Accountant and Commissioners on complex accounting and reporting matters; co-chaired the President’s Working Group’s Regulatory Reform Subcommittee for Accounting and Valuation Issues; acted as liaison between the Office of the Chief Accountant and staff of the House Financial Services and Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committees; and served as the team leader for the SEC’s Office of the Chief Accountant’s business combinations team responsible for responding to financial reporting issues arising from mergers and acquisition related activity.