Grant Thornton names Jason Perry as managing principal for the Southeast region

Perry succeeds Mark Margulies, who recently became the firm’s national managing principal of U.S. Tax Services

CHICAGO  — Grant Thornton, one of America’s largest brands of professionals providing end-to-end audit, assurance, tax, and advisory services, has named Jason Perry as the regional managing principal for the Southeast at Grant Thornton Advisors LLC.

In the role, Perry will oversee Grant Thornton’s offices in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. This includes its operations in almost ten cities: Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; Columbia, S.C.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Miami; Orlando, Fla.; Raleigh, N.C.; and Tampa, Fla.

As a regional managing partner, Perry will drive Grant Thornton’s strategy across the southeast and ensure his colleagues provide personalized, high-quality services to the firm’s clients. His appointment dovetails with Grant Thornton’s accelerating growth and record-setting revenues.

Perry has worked at Grant Thornton for more than 20 years — the last four serving as the firm’s market managing principal in Atlanta. In that role, he led 350 professionals as they delivered accounting, tax and consulting services across a range of industries. Before becoming market managing principal, Perry was Grant Thornton’s Audit & Assurance Practice Leader in Atlanta for almost nine years. An auditor by training, he has years of experience serving companies in areas such as manufacturing, technology and life sciences.

In addition, he is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta — one of the oldest sustained community leadership programs in the nation. He currently serves as a board member of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and is a member of The Carter Center Board of Councilors and the Rotary Club of Atlanta. The Atlanta Business Chronicle recently named Perry to its Most Admired list.

“Jason has been a guiding light for Grant Thornton in Atlanta, leading with passion, a clear vision and a commitment to the community,” said Alasdair Trotter, chief revenue officer at Grant Thornton Advisors LLC. “He has consistently shown an unparalleled ability to understand our clients’ needs and find innovative and effective ways to serve them — a talent he will now bring to a fast-growing region for our firm.”

Perry is a certified public accountant (CPA) in Georgia and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He received a bachelor’s degree in management from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Perry succeeds Mark Margulies as the regional managing principal for the Southeast. In June, Margulies was promoted to national managing principal of U.S. Tax Services at Grant Thornton Advisors LLC. Since assuming the role, he has ensured firmwide operational excellence and led growth for the firm’s tax services across the nation. He also now serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

The three-and-a-half decade accounting-industry veteran has held a range of progressive leadership roles at Grant Thornton and, before that, a Big Four firm. Margulies is active in Miami’s business and philanthropic communities, including involvements with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, the University of Miami Citizens Board and the Dolphins Challenge Cancer program. He is a CPA in Florida and a member of the AICPA, and holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s in taxation from the University of Miami.