Sam Hallburn brings over a decade of entrepreneurial experience in the financial sector and more than 20 years of cross-functional expertise spanning finance, marketing, HR, and sales. She is the Director of Operations at Devine Consulting, LLC where she leads the accounting team and helps business owners better understand their numbers, strengthen financial systems, and use QuickBooks Online more strategically in their businesses.

A Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor since 2016, Sam is a nationally recognized QuickBooks Online educator, teaching accounting professionals and small business owners across the country through seminars, workshops, and industry events. As founder of PBS Accounting and Tax Solutions and Simplified Accounting Management, Inc., Sam bring years of hands-on experience building firms, advising clients, and developing practical financial education for business owners.

Sam’s industry recognition includes alumna status of the Intuit Accountant Council, advisory board membership with Insightful Accountant, and a member of the Woodard Writers Coalition. She has been recognized as a Top 100 ProAdvisor for the last 3 years and was awarded the Top Niche-Practice ProAdvisor for 2025. Known for her relatable, practical approach, Sam is passionate about equipping business owners with the financial clarity they need to make confident decisions and build stronger businesses.

Jeremy Dubow is Prosperity Partners’ Chief Executive Officer. He manages the company and is responsible for its strategic direction, growth initiatives and talent development. He began his career at Arthur Andersen before co-founding Prosperity in 2003.

As a tax expert, he provides sophisticated tax planning and consulting services to technology entrepreneurs and their enterprises, high net worth individuals and family offices. Jeremy also co-leads Prosperity’s mergers and acquisitions practice, advising business owners throughout the sales process.

Jeremy routinely speaks on behalf of the IL CPA Society and AICPA on a variety of tax technical topics and is actively involved in the ILCPAS tax committees. During his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, cycling and playing pickleball; he is also Prosperity’s premier table tennis player.

Gale Crosley is a well-known strategic revenue growth consultant, who has helped over 500 CPA firms over the past 25+ years. She has worked with their managing partners and other leaders transform their firms to high growth environments, achieving exceptional organic growth. Nine of the top 20 fastest organically growing firms have been her clients. For 19 consecutive years she’s been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting by Accounting Today, and for 16 years selected one of the Top 10 Most Recommended Consultants in Inside Public Accounting’s Best of the Best.

Early in her career Gale spent several years in executive level management in sales, marketing and product management at IBM and tech start-ups, after beginning her journey as an auditor at Arthur Andersen and PwC. She brings all these experiences to the current transformation facing the accounting profession.

Tim Brackney serves as CEO of Springline Advisory, a financial and business advisory firm dedicated to reshaping the mid-market accounting and advisory landscape. Tim has guided Springline since its public launch toward the goal of building a top-tier, middle-market business advisory leader and one of the most irresistible, people-first firms in the industry. Prior to Springline, Tim had a successful 20-year career with Resources Global Professionals (NASDAQ: RGP), where he most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer, leading RGP’s global operations which included full P&L and operational responsibilities across North America, the UK and EU, and Asia Pacific region. He earned his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and holds a BBA from the University of Notre Dame.

2025 revenue: $240.10 mn
Growth rate: 40.93%

Headquarters: Troy, MI

Seth Fineberg is an accounting industry consultant & Content Strategist. He has been an editor and journalist for over 30 years, the vast majority of which has been spent overseeing the accounting profession’s evolution. To this end, he has served as Technology Editor at Accounting Today and the head of AccountingWEB’s US team. Through his current business, Accountants Forward, he aims to see the accounting profession progress through the creation of quality practical and useful content from vendors, industry organizations and accounting firms themselves. He plays a variety of roles in such content’s creation and execution, be it articles, podcasts, webinars, white papers or even live events. He is also a regular contributor to CPA Trendlines, Karbon Magazine, Insight Magazine, a known speaker at industry events, and an advocate for the advancement of the accounting profession.

Randy Crabtree, co-founder and partner of Tri-Merit Specialty Tax Professionals is a widely followed author, lecturer and podcast host for the accounting profession.

Since 2019, he has hosted the bi-weekly “The Unique CPA,” podcast, which ranks among the world’s 5% most popular programs (Source: Listen Score).

You can find articles from Randy in Accounting Today’s Voices column, the AICPA Tax Adviser, CPA Trendlines, Intuit Accountants TaxPro Center and he is a regular presenter at conferences and virtual training events hosted by national accounting associations, state CPA societies and other industry associations.

In May 2022 Randy was appointed, for a 3-year term, to the Intuit Tax Council.

Prior to starting Tri-Merit, Crabtree was managing partner of a CPA firm in the greater Chicago area. He has more than 30 years of public accounting and tax consulting experience in a wide variety of industries and has worked closely with top executives to help them optimize their tax planning strategies.

2025 revenue: $124.40 mn
Growth rate: 68.11%

Headquarters: Atlanta, GA

I quit my job as a partner at a CPA firm to pursue my goal of disrupting the areas of the profession that don’t make sense. I am a tireless advocate for value vs. time, family initiatives, inclusion & belonging, work / life harmony, and challenging the historical norms the accounting profession clings to. My wife Jen and I have two daughters in college, Sofia and Julia. The four of us enjoy traveling and have set a goal to see all fifty states. I played baseball for 25 years, Jen and I enjoy running – we’ve completed several marathons and a bunch of half marathons, and all four of us love going to Disney.

I am a Director in Aprio Alliance, where future oriented firms convene to discuss challenges and solutions for running their firms. I am also the immediate past Chair of the CTCPA Board of Directors, a 2010 alumnus of the AICPA Leadership Academy, and past member of the Women’s Initiatives Executive Committee and other AICPA / CTCPA task forces & committees. In 2025, Mike received the Jack Brooks Leadership Award from the CTCPA.

Kristen Keats, CPA, is a tech-forward former tax firm owner with more than 25 years of hands-on experience building, scaling, and modernizing accounting practices. She is the former owner of Sherwood Tax & Accounting, founder of Breakaway Bookkeeping & Advising, and co-founder of Cadencia, an outsource staffing agency based in Guadalajara, Mexico and currently serves in an advisory role at Accrual.

Kristen has led firm growth, implemented technology systems, built remote teams, and successfully transitioned her practice, giving her a practical perspective on what actually works inside today’s accounting firms.

She serves on the Advisory Board for the Accounting Today Firm Growth Forum and on the Accountant Advisory Board for ADP.

Kristen speaks on firm growth, advisory services, staffing strategy, and technology adoption, with a focus on helping firms operate more efficiently while delivering better client experiences. Her mission is simple: Bring Joy to Accounting.