Barry C. Brown is the founder of EBITDA Advisors LLC, a consulting firm that helps public accounting firms improve performance through strategic technology leadership, operational clarity, and disciplined AI adoption. He serves as a Fractional CIO for CPA firms across the country, bringing nearly 30 years of experience leading technology and operations at a large regional accounting firm — including more than 20 years as CIO and eight years as COO.

Barry bridges a gap that few advisors can: he speaks the language of both accounting firm leadership and enterprise technology strategy. His engagements are grounded in the realities of CPA firm economics — partner profitability, staff utilization, busy season constraints, and the complexity of deeply embedded tax and audit platforms. He translates technology decisions into business outcomes that managing partners and COOs can act on.

Through EBITDA Advisors, Barry helps mid-sized accounting firms — typically in the $10M to $75M revenue range — with technology roadmap development, AI readiness and governance, Microsoft 365 strategy, vendor rationalization, and IT governance design. His four-phase AI Readiness Engagement framework has become a practical model for firms navigating the transition from AI curiosity to responsible, firm-wide adoption.

A credentialed CPA and Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP), Barry holds credentials that reflect his dual fluency in accounting and technology. He is a recognized thought leader on AI adoption in the accounting profession, an active voice on LinkedIn, and serves on the Advisory Council for the inaugural AI Native Accounting Awards (appointed March 2026). He is based in Atlanta, Georgia.