Nigel Jacobs

Nigel is the CEO of Taylor Leibow LLP, a 78-year-old regional independent professional accounting firm located in Hamilton and Burlington. Nigel is an FCPA, FCMA through his membership of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.

Nigel is an acknowledged expert in the leadership and practice management of professional service firms and continues to be involved in speaking engagements including leading benchmarking sessions, practice management seminars and international management panels. He also has extensive governance and board experience of professional associations and bodies and also community organizations. Nigel’s has served as Vice President of the Americas and on the Executive Board of DFK International. He has also served as Chair of the Carpenter Hospice and Director of Finance/Executive Committee member of the Burlington Chamber of Commerce. Other board service includes the Public Accountants Council of Ontario and President of the
CPAFMA (a US Based association of professionals that manage accounting firms).

Nigel is passionate about giving back through service in a professional and community capacity, as evidenced above. Nigel and his wife Wendy, who have been married for 40 years, emigrated from Cape Town, South Africa, in 1994 and landed in Burlington and never left. They presently live in Aldershot with their son, while their daughter lives in Arizona with their two grandsons.