Meet Our Partners

Steve has 40 years of experience in public accounting. As a partner in Delap’s assurance practice, Steve serves as the leader for the firm’s healthcare practice. He also has extensive experience in serving a wide variety of other for-profit and not-for-profit clients with their audit and financial reporting needs.

Steve also has served as the concurring partner on the firm’s financial institution clients for nearly 35 years and currently serves as the firm’s risk management and quality control partner. In addition, he works with numerous employee benefit plans, including both defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

Steve began his career at Ernst & Young. After 11 years there, Steve spent 18 years building Symonds, Evans & Company, P.C., prior to joining Delap in 2009.

Steve has one son, Nolan, and lives in Lake Oswego. During his time away from the office, Steve enjoys golf, boating, following his “fighting Ducks” of the University of Oregon, and traveling with his girlfriend, Lori.