Bridge CPA is a group of partners that left their prior firm to focus on providing services for small and medium sized businesses. As firms continue to grow through mergers and acquisitions, focus tends to drift to larger clients and increased client fees. Our focus at Bridge CPA is to provide quality, partner driven services, to each of our clients regardless of size, at an affordable rate.
We provide assurance, tax and business advisory services to small and medium sized businesses across many different industries. Collectively, we have over 50 years of experience servicing small to midsize businesses.
Our goal is to become your trusted partner and guide you each step of the way. We are here to connect you to financial success.
Alex Krog
Alex has been in public accounting since 2011 and has been proficient in providing mainly attest services for clients in the distribution, manufacturing, technology, contracting, and professional services industries. Additionally, he has worked on over 100 different Employee Benefit Plan audits during his career, providing client services and education.
Alex focuses on a very client-centric approach (because most people don’t like auditors) and tries to make the audit process as painless as possible for his clients because they have their normal day-to-day tasks that they need to perform, too. He takes great pride in running efficient engagements, serving his clients with the highest quality work and good rapport.
Alex became a "girl dad" in July 2020, and in June 2022, he and his wife were equally pleased to welcome a son to their family. Alex is one of the worst golfers you’ve ever met and an avid Chicago sports fan having seen the Cubs win the NL Pennant and the World Series in person in 2016. Since 2020, Alex has also hosted the Fantasy Football Sackos podcast during the NFL season.
James Hare III
James has 12 years of experience in public accounting. His past work includes audits, reviews, compilations, and employee benefit plan audits. James has more recently focused on small and mid-size business advisory, including accounting assistance, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow forecasting, and tax planning and preparation. James’ industry focus includes manufacturing, construction, transportation, and professional services.
Outside of the office James enjoys spending time with his wife and son, attempting various D-I-Y projects around the house, kayaking, riding four-wheelers, and watching his favorite sport teams never meet expectations.
Aaron O'Connor
Aaron has over 25 years of public accounting experience, mainly providing attest and business consulting services. During this time, he has worked with clients of all sizes, from start-ups to helping take companies public on the NASDAQ and TSX. Aaron's clients have been in financial services, manufacturing, distribution, and professional services.
Aaron enjoys working closely with clients and helping them grow their businesses, whether that means geographic expansion through a merger or acquisition or through old-fashioned organic growth. Aaron's experience helps him develop solutions for clients that are real-world and practical as well as being implemented in a cost-effective manner.
Away from the office, Aaron and his wife are avid travelers. Often he can be found at one of his three kids' events, be it at the regatta, pool, baseball field, or in the classroom, he enjoys cheering his kids on. In between trips and the kids' events, Aaron is an avid baseball fan.
Chris Gent
Chris has 14 years of public accounting experience. His focus has been on small and start-up businesses. Chris works closely with these small business owners, helping them setup processes and procedures to be successful. He actively works with his clients on an ongoing basis in a fractional CFO capacity. Chris works with businesses across many different industries including; technology, manufacturing, distribution, construction, cannabis and professional services.
Family is very important to Chris and he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children. You can often find him throwing the football outside with his son or chasing his very active toddler, wherever she decides to run off to next!
Chris also comes from a family heavily involved in the trades. Working with his father on side jobs, he understands the basics of plumbing, electrical, carpentry and automotive. These skilled jobs are the backbone of our country and Chris can help free you up from the accounting and compliance part of the business, so you can focus on your trade.