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Aaron Philpott
Managing Director
Aaron Philpott
Managing Director
A CPA and second-generation business manager, Aaron has over 25 years of financial management experience. His clients include well respected leaders in the entertainment industry as well as high-net-worth individuals and companies in sports and other industries.
David Coronel
Managing Director
David Coronel
Managing Director
David is a CPA with extensive experience in tax planning and compliance, business management, and financial planning. His clientele includes entertainment industry professionals, real estate developers and investors, professional service firms, and other high-net-worth individuals.
Brett Anderson
Managing Director
Brett Anderson
Managing Director
Brett is a CPA with almost 15 years of business management experience. His clients include digital creators, actors, writers, directors, professional athletes, as well as high net-worth families outside of the entertainment and sports industries.
Andréa R. Bacon
Managing Director
Andréa R. Bacon
Managing Director
Andréa is a CPA with more than 25 years of business management experience. Her entertainment industry clients include studio executives, producers, directors, actors, screenwriters, musicians, composers, photographers and publishers.
Jeff Bacon
Managing Director
Jeff Bacon
Managing Director
Jeff is a CPA with over 30 years of business management experience. His clients include actors, writers, directors, producers, professional athletes, and attorneys, as well as high net worth individuals outside the entertainment and sports industries.
Jay Barr
In Memoriam
Jay Barr
In Memoriam
Jay Barr was the COO/CFO of GCBM for the past 20 years. He was instrumental in the growth of GCBM and he was always focused on ensuring the clients received the highest level of service.
Tom Beldyga
Managing Director
Tom Beldyga
Managing Director
Tom is a CPA with nearly 40 years of business management, tax, bankruptcy, and estate planning experience serving high-profile clients including actors, directors, producers, writers, musicians, composers, entrepreneurs, and high-net-worth individuals.
Timothy Bodner
Managing Director
Timothy Bodner
Managing Director
Tim is a CPA with more than 35 years of experience overseeing all aspects of his clients’ tax needs, including compliance, audits, estate tax planning, and income tax planning. He also provides business management services to high-net-worth individuals in entertainment, real estate, and enterprise.
Mark Borda
Managing Director
Mark Borda
Managing Director
For more than two decades, Mark has used his expertise as a CPA and business management professional to serve high-net-worth clientele including producers, directors, writers, entertainment industry executives, attorneys, and other individuals.
Chris Bucci
CEO
Chris Bucci
CEO
Chris is the CEO of Ground Control Business Management and former Managing Partner of Savitsky, Satin, Bacon & Bucci. In addition to his CEO responsibilities, Chris serves a very select group of clients — entertainers and athletes at the pinnacle of their industry.
Tom Fouladi
Managing Director
Tom Fouladi
Managing Director
Tom excels in business management for the entertainment and professional sports industries. His clients include actors, writers, directors, producers, and studio executives as well as high-net-worth entrepreneurs in other industries.
Mike Glynn
Managing Director
Mike Glynn
Managing Director
With more than 40 years of tax and accounting experience, Mike has spent his career as a CPA serving clients including real estate developers, independent production companies, business executives, entrepreneurs, and professional athletes.
Robert Harrison
Managing Director
Robert Harrison
Managing Director
With more than 40 years of public accounting experience, Rob has built a remarkable career providing clients with tax-related services. Rob’s clients include high-net-worth individuals, closely held businesses, trusts, and estates.
Bradley Holtzman
Managing Director
Bradley Holtzman
Managing Director
Over his three decades of experience as a CPA and business manager, Brad has worked with clients including writers, producers, directors, and musicians, as well as high-net-worth individuals outside of the entertainment industry.
Brad Johnson
Managing Director
Brad Johnson
Managing Director
Brad’s excellence as a CPA has developed over 30 years of professional experience. He specializes in business management services for individuals and companies in the entertainment industry as well as in tax and estate planning for high-net-worth individuals.
Jared Kroll
Managing Director
Jared Kroll
Managing Director
Jared is a business manager with over 15 years of experience in entertainment. His clients include talent such as actors, comedians, digital space, directors, and writers as well as professional athletes and entertainment executives.
Peter Mainstain
Managing Director
Peter Mainstain
Managing Director
Peter’s career as a CPA and Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) extends over 40 years. His expertise encompasses all aspects of the entertainment industry—he specializes in serving writers, directors, actors, agents, and talent agencies, as well as studio and corporate executives, and high-net-worth individuals.
Rachel Martinez
Managing Director
Rachel Martinez
Managing Director
Rachel has built her career in business management working with clients and their teams to execute financial plans and achieve business goals. Her clients represent a broad spectrum of the entertainment industry from traditional to digital.
Martin Meeks
Managing Director
Martin Meeks
Managing Director
A licensed attorney and CPA, Martin has nearly three decades of business management experience as an architect of financial management. He specializes in financial and generational planning helping administer his clients’ financial affairs by providing guidance on investments, retirement and estate planning, budgeting, tax matters, and more for high-net-worth families, as well as those working in the entertainment industry—including producers, production companies, actors, writers, directors, attorneys, agents, and managers.
Susan J. Ollweiler
Managing Director
Susan J. Ollweiler
Managing Director
Sue has worked in business management for over 40 years, serving high-net-worth individuals including clients across the full spectrum of the entertainment industry. In addition, Sue specializes in private foundations.
Bob Philpott
In Memoriam
Bob Philpott
In Memoriam
Bob Philpott spent his illustrious career overseeing the wealth, careers, and life management affairs of some of the most accomplished entertainment industry professionals in America. He founded his namesake firm Philpott Meeks in 1984. With the joining of Philpott Meeks and Ground Control Business Managment, Bob’s legacy, values, and vision live on through GCBM.
Bill Tanner
Managing Director
Bill Tanner
Managing Director
Bill founded the firm TMGJ in 1976, which recently became part of the GCBM group. He is a highly respected CPA and business manager with an impressive list of loyal clients dating back over 40 years. In 2019, Bill was the recipient of Variety’s prestigious Business Manager Elite Award.
Gary Satin
Managing Director
Gary Satin
Managing Director
Gary is a CPA with 40 years of experience. He is a second-generation business manager, who started predominantly in the music industry. His clients include actors, writers, directors, producers, composers, song writers and entertainment industry executives.
George Savitsky
Founder
George Savitsky
Founder
George founded the firm in 1990. Regarded as one of the most highly respected business managers of the past 30 years, he has had a major impact on the industry. In 2014, Variety honored him with the prestigious Business Manager Elite Award.
Steve Savitsky
Managing Director
Steve Savitsky
Managing Director
Steve has nearly 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry. As a second-generation business manager, he has developed an impressive roster of high profile clients that span all facets of television and film.
Vera Singartiyska
Managing Director
Vera Singartiyska
Managing Director
Vera is a CPA with over 15 years of business management experience. Clients include a wide variety of entertainment professionals and many high net worth individuals outside the industry. She specializes in international tax planning.
Jeremy D. Stahl
Managing Director
Jeremy D. Stahl
Managing Director
Jeremy brings over 20 years of business management experience to his role as a CPA. His clients include actors, writers, directors, producers, studio executives, musicians, and other high-net-worth individuals, as well as estates outside of the entertainment industry.
Michael G. Thompson
Retd. Managing Director
Michael G. Thompson
Retd. Managing Director
Michael is a CPA with nearly 50 years of business management experience. Michael joyously served clients in every corner of the entertainment industry.
Skip Westfall
COO
Skip Westfall
COO
Having led operations teams around the world in the professional services industry over the past 25 years, Skip applies his vast experience and leadership to developing and delivering data-driven business solutions, providing outstanding client service, and driving profitable revenue growth.
