Accounting Firm CLA Taps Strategy Leader as CEO After Mergers

December 22, 2020, 7:14 PM UTC

Accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP named its chief strategy officer, Jen Leary, as its next CEO, to take the helm of a much larger firm after a series of mergers over the past year.

Leary, 45, succeeds Denny Schleper, who spent more than 30 years with CLA and will take on the role of CEO emeritus, the firm said Tuesday.

  • Her tenure as CEO begins Jan. 1 as Blum, Shapiro & Company, P.C., a top-100 firm, joins CLA, creating a combined staff of more than 7,000 professionals. Leary played a key role in the firm’s four mergers in ...

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