As a Partner in Pease Bell CPAs Assurance Services practice, Todd Brings a uniquely diverse background and skill set to provide Assurance, Advisory, and Tax Services to privately held companies. Specializing in industries such as Distribution, Manufacturing, Real Estate, and Professional Services, Todd also leads the firm's sustainability Advisory and Assurance Services group. His approach involves understanding the specific challenges facing business owners and leveraging his broad experience and the firm's resources to deliver value-added solutions.
FOCUSTodd provides guidance and expertise to clients in a variety of industries, including distribution, real estate, professional services and employee benefit plans. He seeks first to understand the specific challenges facing business owners and then leverages his broad experience and the immense resources of the firm to deliver value-added solutions to clients. He enjoys teaching and strives to educate clients on accounting and tax issues throughout all phases of an engagement.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTActively engaged in professional organizations, Todd is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Ohio Society of CPAs. He also contributes to the University of Akron School of Accountancy Advisory Board.
EDUCATIONTodd graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and became a Certified Public Accountant shortly thereafter. After spending six years learning the ropes in public accounting and one year broadening his professional capabilities with a commercial real estate development and property management company, he relocated to Northeast Ohio in 2002. Todd joined Pease Bell CPAs as a partner in 2017 following a merger with Levin Swedler Kennedy.
PERSONAL LIFETodd lives in Copley with his wife and three daughters. He enjoys traveling, family hikes in the Summit County Metro Parks, golf, running, and rooting for the Iowa Hawkeyes and Iowa State Cyclones.
