Owen Bailitz

As a partner in Risk & Quality Management, Owen brings a unique, multidisciplinary perspective and diverse industry experience in client service, operations and risk management leadership roles in Big Four and large professional services firms.

Prior to joining Armanino, Owen provided risk management and quality control consulting services to Top 100 accounting firms across the United States and Canada as a Managing Principal with Lemme Insurance Brokers & Consultants.

Before his role at Lemme, Owen was a Partner with RSM US LLP, where he played a key role in the formation of the firm’s National Office of Risk Management and led numerous firmwide risk and quality initiatives while also serving as the risk management partner for the firm’s assurance practice.

Owen’s prior experience also includes leading teams of audit and forensics professionals responding to fraud and regulatory investigations for Fortune 500 clients as a member of PwC’s Fraud Risk & Controls practice. Prior to joining that practice, Owen led the delivery of audit services for public, private and nonprofit entities and employee benefit plans, including multiple debt and equity securities offerings as a manager in PwC’s middle market assurance practice.