Experience

About Our Partners

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Mark Brown, CPA
Mark, has been a CPA since 1982, owned his own public accounting firm from 1992 until 2005 when he joined
Sherman, Young & Associates, P.C. Focusing on closely-held businesses, Mark has extensive experience
in tax and accounting consulting services for a variety of business activities including buy-sell agreements,
starting, purchasing or selling a business. Mark also works with many trusts and estates helping people
weave through the special rules that apply to these types of entities. His wide range of accounting, tax
and business consulting experience in addition to being licensed to assist in the life, disability and long –
term care insurance arena provides a valuable resource in all business and personal financial and tax
matters. Mark was a tax auditor with the Oregon Department of Revenue before becoming a CPA. Mark
is a graduate of Portland State University. He enjoys playing golf (anytime and open to all invitations),
traveling and helping his wife and with her horse activities.

Contact Mark Here 

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​Ken Bakondi CPA MBA

Ken Bakondi joined the SYA team in 2017, bringing over 35 years of accounting and tax experience. He
has been a CPA for 11 years and has degrees in Accounting, Finance, and a Masters in Business
Administration. He was a controller for a Fortune 500 company before launching his own successful
multi-state commercial flooring company. In his time at Sherman and Young, he has been a mobile
controller, business and tax consultant, is a Quickbooks Pro Advisor and has prepared taxes and financial
statements for many of our business clients. As much as he loves his work, in his spare time he enjoys
hiking and the outdoors, gardening and vacationing with his wife in warm, dry sunny places! Contact Ken Here

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Michael B. Sherman, CPA, MBA
Mike is the founder of Sherman, Young & Associates, P.C. and affiliated company Sherman, Young &
Leavitt, LLC, registered investment adviser. Mike formally retired on January 1, 2022, but still provides services on a part-time basis.
Combining years of financial services experience he is uniquely qualified as a financial coach to a diverse
client base. His areas of concentration are taxation and tax planning for individuals, estates, trusts,
partnerships and corporations. Mike has over 30 years of experience providing accounting, review and
auditing services for retirement plans, not-for-profit organizations, construction, manufacturing,
professional service providers and small businesses.
Mike started his professional career with the international accounting firm Deloitte & Touche. He holds a
Bachelor of Science degree with honors in business administration, emphasis in accounting, from the
University of Southern California and a Masters of Business Administration from Portland State University.
Prior to becoming an accountant Mike worked in the drug and grocery retail industries in Washington and
California. Mike is the past president of the Oregon City Lions Club and the Gladstone Oak Grove Rotary
Club. Mike is a volunteer speaker for the Oregon State Society of CPAs regarding careers in accounting
and financial literacy.
Mike enjoys traveling to foreign countries and working out at the gym and has never lived more than 100
miles from the Pacific Ocean. 

Contact Mike Here

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