The Only Fractional CIO Who’s Also a CPA.

Most technology advisors understand IT. Most accountants understand operations. Barry Brown understands both — from nearly 30 years on the inside of a large regional CPA firm. EBITDA Advisors brings executive-level technology leadership to accounting firms ready to grow, modernize, and lead.

Technology Is Rarely the Problem. Leadership Is.

If you’re leading a mid-sized CPA firm and technology feels like a burden more than an advantage, you’re not alone. Most firms aren’t struggling because they chose the wrong software. They’re struggling because no one is leading the strategy behind it.

Sound familiar?


No clear technology roadmap — decisions get made reactively

  • Vendor sprawl with tools no one fully owns or uses

  • IT and firm leadership operating in separate worlds

  • AI anxiety — everyone asking questions, no one providing answers

  • Security and compliance gaps that keep partners up at night

  • Staff burning time on disconnected, inefficient systems

You don’t need more technology. You need clearer strategy and someone who has lived inside your world to help you execute it.

Fractional CIO

Ongoing executive technology leadership on retainer. Roadmap development, vendor strategy, IT governance, budget oversight, and a trusted advisor consistently at the leadership table.


Operational Improvement

IT governance frameworks, decision rights models, vendor rationalization, and post-merger technology integration. Making the operational structures that let technology actually work.



Strategic Technology Leadership, Built for CPA Firms

EBITDA Advisors provides Fractional CIO services exclusively for public accounting firms with revenue between $10M and $100M. We bring the strategic technology leadership your firm needs, priced and structured for where you are today.

Technology Strategy

A practical, prioritized technology roadmap aligned with your firm’s goals. Cloud strategy, Microsoft 365 optimization, application rationalization, and a clear path forward.



Vendor & Contract Advisory

Contract review, SLA analysis, renewal strategy, and vendor selection support. We bring technology executive judgment to agreements your firm signs every year.




AI Readiness

A structured, phased program to assess your firm’s AI readiness, educate partners and staff, build governance policies, and implement tools responsibly.




Speaking & Education

Partner education sessions, firm workshops, and conference presentations on AI strategy, technology governance, Microsoft Copilot, and CPA firm modernization.





Is Your Firm Ready for AI?

AI is not a future technology for CPA firms. Tools built on AI are already embedded in the Thomson Reuters, CCH, and Microsoft 365 platforms your staff uses every day — and your people are using ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude with or without firm approval.

The firms that benefit will be those that adopt AI with a clear governance strategy. The firms at risk are those that wait.

As a member of the AI Native Accounting Foundation Advisory Council, Barry brings a practitioner’s perspective that is rare in the AI advisory space — grounded in real accounting firm workflows, not generic business use cases.

Our four-phase AI Readiness program:


Talk About AI Readiness

  • Evaluate current state, identify opportunities, assess governance gaps goes here

  • Partner and staff sessions built around real CPA firm workflows

  • Acceptable use policies, data handling standards, tool evaluation criteria

  • Prioritized adoption plan, vendor selection, success metrics

Built for One Audience

We work exclusively with public accounting firms. No generalist IT work. No distractions. Just deep, focused expertise in the industry you’ve built your career around.


CPA Firms $10M–$100M

Mid-sized firms with enough complexity to need strategic technology leadership — but not the scale to justify a full-time CIO.


Managing Partners & COOs

Firm leaders who need a trusted technology advisor at the table — someone who can translate IT into the business outcomes partners care about.



IT Leaders Seeking Elevation

Internal IT directors who need senior executive support to drive strategy, secure budget, and gain alignment from firm leadership.




Nearly 30 Years. One Industry. Undivided Focus.

Barry C. Brown spent the first three decades of his career inside one of the largest regional CPA firms in the Southeast — more than 20 years as CIO and 8 years as COO. He has navigated busy season pressure, partner dynamics, platform migrations, mergers, and every major technology cycle the profession has seen.

He founded EBITDA Advisors to give mid-sized CPA firms access to the same level of technology leadership that top-100 firms take for granted — without the overhead.


Meet Barry

Are vendors just a cost… or can they be true innovation partners?

Listen below for my full interview with Mark Edmondson as we share perspectives on how networks, trust, and experience shape better technology outcomes—especially as firms navigate platform changes and AI-driven tools.