Top 25 Firm Eide Bailly approved Jeremy Hauk as the Fargo, North Dakota-based firm’s next managing partner and CEO, effective May 1, 2022, succeeding Dave Stende, who will retire after nearly 40 years at the firm and nine years at the helm.
Currently the partner-in-charge of tax services, Hauk has also served as chairman of the Eide Bailly board of directors and tax department head of the firm’s Billings, Montana, office, where he resides and will continue to work once he assumes the new role.
“I’m honored and excited to be chosen as the next leader of Eide Bailly,” Hauk said in a statement. “Our firm has become stronger than ever under Dave’s leadership, and I plan to continue developing our firm resources and investing in the technology and people that will drive us forward. In addition, I believe the managing partner/CEO is the custodian of the firm’s culture, and I will continue to ensure the culture and values that define our firm will be at the core of all our decisions.”
Since joining the firm in 1989, Hauk has provided tax, consulting and business advisory services to clients in a range of industries including financial institutions, real estate, and dentist and physician groups, along with income and estate planning for individuals.
When Stende became managing partner and CEO in 2013, Eide Bailly was a $167 million firm with 21 offices and 1,200 partners and staff. He has since grown the firm to $439 million in revenue with 42 offices in the U.S. and India and more than 2,500 staff, earning it a No. 20 ranking on Accounting Today’s 2021 Top 100 Firms list.
“Jeremy is a tremendously talented partner with a long list of accomplishments at Eide Bailly, and I’m sure that list will continue to grow as managing partner/CEO,” Stende said in a statement. “I’m happy to be able to hand over leadership to such a worthy partner, and I’m grateful for my own time as managing partner/CEO. Eide Bailly is an incredible firm with amazing people, and I can’t wait to see what will be accomplished in the years ahead.”
