Ellis Orlan CPA (IL), CGMA

I am a Partner at Fuller Landau, and part of our team that provides traditional accounting and outsourced CFO services to small and mid-sized businesses and their owners.

My clients appreciate my detail-oriented, proactive, and timely approach to service, along with my unfailing ability to meet revolving year-end and tax-related deadlines.

In more than 38 years of public accounting I have accumulated a wealth of experience in providing audit and assurance services, as well as strategic business advisory and tax services across a diverse client base.

I am approachable, genuine, and sincere and make my clients feel comfortable through an informal yet professional approach. I thoroughly enjoy working with you through various deliverables and problem-solving engagements, and my clients know they can reach out to me any time of the day and I’ll get back to them expeditiously. Timely, accurate client service is my mantra.

I am pleased to mentor a number of staff members to ensure that they are continually challenged and progressing within their careers. I am an active member of Food and Beverage Ontario and also a member of the following Fuller Landau team:

• Food and beverage committee, Co-Chair

Academic achievements, memberships, and professional designations

• Board Member of Distinction, Reena Foundation, 2011 & 2012
• CGMA Designation
• CPA Designation (Illinois)
• Silver Medal – Weightlifting, Ontario Junior Olympics, 1977

Community initiatives and organizations

• Board Member, Reena Foundation
• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Member, Illinois CPA Society

Publications

• “The Most Important Lesson Learned From a Mentor” (Futurpreneur Canada, January 27, 2015)
• “Is Success Only Measured By Profits?” (Futurpreneur Canada, January 12, 2015)
• “Why Start a Business?” (Futurpreneur Canada, November 27, 2014)
• “Promoting Entrepreneurship in Europe” (Futurpreneur Canada, October 31, 2014)
• “Knowing what you don’t know” (Futurpreneur Canada, October 1, 2014)
• “Measuring the Impact of Social/Environmental Initiatives” (Futurpreneur Canada, July 24, 2014)
• “Nurturing an Entrepreneur: My Mentoring Experience” (Futurpreneur Canada, March 25, 2014)
• “The key to a start-up is to be active” (Futurpreneur Canada, August 27, 2013)
• “Three characteristics of successful entrepreneurs” (Futurpreneur Canada, September 9, 2013)
• “Incentives to philanthropic activity” (Futurpreneur Canada, November 29, 2012)
• “Managers and leaders” (Futurpreneur Canada, April 12, 2012)
• “Don’t tax your accountant” (Futurpreneur Canada, February 7, 2012)