Jason de Boer to take over as BDO Melbourne managing partner
Accounting and consulting firm BDO has tapped corporate & international tax leader Jason de Boer to take over from incoming CEO David Garvey as its next office managing partner for Melbourne.
Jason De Boer has been with BDO in Melbourne for more than a decade, having previously clocked up almost a decade and a half of experience at Deloitte. He currently serves as partner-in-charge of BDO’s Victorian tax practice, and will move to his new role later this year.
De Boer replaces David Garvey, who has overseen the Melbourne office for the past decade and will take over as CEO from the start of December. BDO Australia last year crossed the $500 revenue mark, with Melbourne accounting for around a fifth of the firm’s size.
“Having worked closely with Jason, I’ve seen firsthand his commitment to BDO’s values and ability to bring people together around a shared vision,” Garvey said, crediting de Boer as having been instrumental in fostering growth. “Jason is an authentic leader with a people-first mindset, and I have every confidence that he’ll excel and guide the Melbourne office into its next chapter.”
A commerce graduate of Monash University, de Boer joined Deloitte’s corporate tax team at the start of the century, spending fourteen and a half years at the Big Four firm before switching to BDO as a partner in 2014, at a time when its Victorian branch had just seventeen partners. That figure today stands somewhere closer to 70, including a number of recent high-level recruits.
De Boer has developed broad expertise during his two and a half decade caree serving a diverse range of private sector clients on tax matters in areas such as inbound and outbound investment, mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, consolidation, intellectual property, and compliance, while also delivering numerous presentations for the ATO and CPA among other organisations.
“I’m grateful for the trust placed in me and proud to continue building on the strong foundations David has set,” de Boer said of his new role, adding that it was an exciting time to be stepping up at the firm. “Our Melbourne team is full of talented, passionate people and I’m energised by the opportunity to work with them and connect with clients as we shape the next stage of our growth.”
De Boer will also have have responsibility for ensuring BDO’s smooth transition to its new Collins Street address in Melbourne, which is double the size of its current Docklands base and follows on from the firm’s recent relocation in Sydney. Based on the firm’s national partner-to-staff ratio, BDO’s Melbourne branch has an estimated headcount in excess of 500 professionals.
Meanwhile, de Boer joins fellow state and regional managing partners Grant Saxon (Sydney & Parramatta), Steven Sorbello (Brisbane), James Massie-Taylor (Perth), Rudy Pieck (Adelaide), and David Palmer, Mal Sciacca and Todd Kelly in Hobart, Darwin and North Queensland, with Paul McDougall and Ridhish Arora splitting duties for BDO’s newest office addition in Canberra.
