Cultivating the next Bay Area boom

摘要

Two years after Carol Spindler O'Hara moved from San Francisco to Sonoma County in 1998, she took a break from public accounting — nine years to be exact — to be with her young children. But her new environment also inspired her to rejoin the profession 10 years ago, when San Francisco-headquartered BPM acquired a firm in nearby Santa Rosa, and O'Hara was given the chance to translate a passion for wine and vineyards she had developed in her time away into leading the Top 100 Firm's consumer products industry group.