Our Mission
CDRW was founded to provide high-touch advisory offerings to clients across a wide range of life stages and business maturity. With offices in Atlanta and New York City, our firm specializes in tax and accounting services for individuals and growing businesses.
Jacob, Michael, Laura, and Elise believe in forming lifelong relationships with clients and going above and beyond to ensure peace of mind in complex financial situations.
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Meet the Team
Partner & Co-Founder
Jacob Cynman, CPA
Jacob is a co-founder and partner at CDRW. After rising through the ranks at Aprio (formerly known as Habif, Arogeti and Wynne), he left to start a new firm, Cynman|Davidson, now CDRW.
His professional background includes extensive experience partnering with high net worth families to assist in income tax and estate planning. In addition, his affinity for entrepreneurship has built his specialty in tax strategy and accounting services for high growth businesses.
Jacob graduated with honors from University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. In his downtime he enjoys playing tennis and spending as much time as possible with his rescue greyhound, Liddy.
Certifications
Certified Public Accountant
Activities & Affiliations
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants
Partner & co-founder
Laura Vernon (Rafi), CPA
Laura is a co-founder and partner at CDRW. She helps businesses, business owners, and individuals understand their finances, minimize taxes, and increase income. She helps her clients understand how revenue, deductions, overhead, and taxes intersect. The result is that her clients know and understand their numbers and feel confident and comfortable with the process.
Laura knows what it takes to help small business owners succeed, because she helped start and run one. From the start, she decided the business’ legal and tax structures, created budgets and income projections, planned for quarterly and yearly taxes, and advised on strategic planning. As the business grew, Laura designed compensation structures for employees, hired and trained staff, established company procedures, set up internal document and management systems, and performed countless other business operations.
Before that, Laura worked in the Advisory Business Services team at Aprio, LLP (formerly Habif, Arogeti & Wynne LLP), the largest accounting firm headquartered in Georgia. There, she was a trusted advisor to law firms, doctors’ offices, real estate companies, other service-based businesses, and high net worth clients. Laura learned the ins and outs of her clients’ businesses and provided uniquely tailored advice for each, to help them reach their goals.
Laura is a Double Dawg - she graduated with her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Accounting from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, J.M. Tull School of Accounting. Laura was raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia in Gwinnett County and now lives in the Inman Park area of Atlanta. She spends most of her free time learning Spanish, trying out new restaurants (especially Nina and Rafi), strolling on the Beltline while avoiding crazy people on scooters, and traveling.
Certifications
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
Activities & Affiliations
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants
partner & Co-founder
Elise Walker, CPA
Elise is a co-founder and partner at CDRW, and has over eight years of experience serving individuals and small and medium sized businesses, assisting them with their financial, accounting, and tax needs. After six years working in taxation, she worked as an outsourced controller for two years. Her areas of expertise include real estate, restaurants, medical practices, and other professional service groups.
She loves advising small and start-up businesses, as well as more established companies, in the following areas: accounting systems consulting, design and implementations, monthly accounting and reporting, accounting & financial clean-up, tax return preparation, tax planning, budgeting, pro forms, outsourced back-office accounting and controller support, and KPI identification and reporting.
Elise graduated with honors from Georgia Southern University with a masters degree in accounting. She’s an Atlanta native, and when she’s not working, she’s cheering on the Braves and Falcons, trying one of the many new restaurants the city has to offer, and spending time with her friends and family.
Certifications
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
QUICKBOOKS PRO ADVISOR
Activities & Affiliations
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants
partner & Co-founder
Michael Davidson, CPA
Prior to founding CDRW Michael ran the tax function of RTW Investments, a hedge fund in the healthcare space, where he was responsible for tax planning and compliance for family office clients, hedge funds, management and portfolio companies, domestic and cross-border tax structuring, advising on tax trades, partner allocations, waterfall calculations, aviation accounting.
Before RTW, Michael managed the tax department at Chilton Trust where he helped high net-worth families and their trusts with tax planning and compliance.
Michael spent the first eight years of his career in public accounting at a large Georgia-based firm named Aprio (fka Habif, Arogeti and Wynne) where he focused on high net-worth clients, trust and estate tax compliance and planning, business advisory for small and medium size closely-held businesses, real estate investment partnerships, and fund of funds.
Michael now spends most of his time advising clients on complex tax situations ranging from multi-generational estate planning to tax structure optimization for investment companies and web3 clients.
Michael’s passion for estate planning and financial well-being has earned him the trust of many family members, friends and clients. He lives in Colorado and loves to be outside hiking, camping, snowboarding and skiing, baking and spending time with his Samoyed, Ru.
Certifications
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT