Willeford Group Joins Hancock Askew

Adam is an Audit Partner at Hancock Askew and has over 13 years of experience in public accounting including 4 years at a national accounting firm. In addition, Adam has 3 years of industry experience. He manages the firm’s Risk Assurance & Advisory practice and serves as a technical accounting expert and training leader for the firm. Adam has consulted with multiple companies through their IPO process and helped with their risk assessment and development of policies and procedures.

Additionally, Adam specializes in providing financial statement audits, reviews and compilations for a variety of industries, including both publicly traded and privately held companies.

Adam received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Georgia and completed an accounting concentration at Georgia State University. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants (GSCPA), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the Institute of Internal Audit (IIA). Adam is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Georgia and Florida.

Allen is the Office Managing Partner of Hancock Askew’s Jacksonville office and has over 17 years of experience in public accounting. His primary focus lies in providing financial statement audits, reviews and compilations for a variety of industries, including both publicly traded and privately held companies. Allen also performs business valuation and transaction advisory services and has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, estate and gift tax, buy-sell agreements, purchase price allocations and impairment tests.

Before beginning his career at Hancock Askew, Allen graduated from Georgia Southern University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Master of Accounting. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Carolyn is a Partner at Hancock Askew and is the Savannah Office Managing Partner. She has been serving clients for over 20 years in the areas of tax, financial planning and management services. Her clients include individuals, fiduciaries, partnerships and corporations. Carolyn specializes in high net worth individual tax, family-owned businesses, real estate, estate and gift tax, and fiduciary tax.

Carolyn is a graduate of the University of Alabama, Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Master of Tax Accounting. She began her career at Arthur Andersen’s Atlanta office and then went on to work for Deloitte in their Private Client Advisors Group before joining Hancock Askew in 2004. Carolyn is a member of both the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

An active member of the community, Carolyn is a member of the Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church, the Savannah Estate Planning Council, Armstrong Planned Giving Council and the Rotary Club of Savannah. She has also taken on the role of the Rotarians Play it Forward Treasurer.

Chad is a Partner at Hancock Askew and has 20 years of experience in public accounting. As a Partner, he leads the firms risk assurance and advisory practice, serves as a technical accounting expert and helps fast growing private companies with best practices pertaining to accounting policies and procedures. His experience includes Sarbanes-Oxley consultation, advising on technical accounting issues and assisting companies through the initial public offering process. Chad routinely holds seminars for fast-growing private companies pertaining to the IPO preparation and SEC requirements, and also on the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance process. He has consulted with more than 10 companies over the past 5 years on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Chad received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Georgia and his Master’s in Accounting from the University of Virginia. Before joining Hancock Askew, he spent eight years at EY in their Atlanta office, where he coordinated audits for both public and private companies, and worked more than one year at a firm that Chad founded that focused on technical accounting issues and best practices as it relates to process improvement. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Georgia Institute of Certified Public Accountants (GSCPA), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the Institute of Internal Audit (IIA). Chad’s dual focus in both accounting and finance provides him a solid understanding of business and accounting fundamentals, which he uses to provide clients with value-added consultations in order to address their needs.

Craig is the Miami Office Managing Partner of Hancock Askew. He has over 25 years of public accounting experience, including serving clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to local or middle market companies, as well as high net worth family offices and individuals. His industry expertise includes manufacturing and retail, hospitality, construction, real estate and private wealth management, among others. For over a decade, Craig has also focused on providing services to high-net worth foreign families with investments in the US, as well as US taxpayers with investments abroad. His extensive tax and audit background has provided clients with meaningful insight to help navigate the increasingly complex business environment.

Craig co-founded CAPA, a certified public accounting firm in 2004 and merged with Hancock Askew in 2020. Craig’s previous roles include Senior Manager of Corporate Accounting Special Projects with Ryder System, Inc., a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Miami, Florida, and five years with the global firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Miami, Florida, where he also served two years as the South Florida Site Leader for audits of employee benefit plans. Craig began his career with the firm of Williams, Cox, Weidner, and Cox in Tallahassee, Florida. He has been involved in various community organizations and currently serves on the audit and finance committee of the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami, as well as serving in an advisory role to other charitable organizations in the South Florida community. Craig has a B.S. Degree in Accounting from Florida State University. He is a licensed certified public accountant in the states of Florida and Georgia and is a member of both the FICPA and AICPA organizations.