BDO USA’s New CEO Leans on PE Alternatives, Consistency (1)

BDO USA PC’s incoming CEO, Matthew Becker, aims to build on the firm’s recent growth through alternatives to private equity deals that are reshaping its mid-size peers.

The strategy will maintain the firm’s position that its employee stock ownership plan structure is superior to those of the outside investments that have transformed many of its competitors, even as it undergoes its first major leadership change after what will have been a 14-year run by outgoing CEO Wayne Berson. Both Becker and Berson see this steadiness as an asset amid a period of change for mid-size firms driven by deal-making and ...