As CEO and Managing Partner of nationally ranked accounting firm Mauldin & Jenkins, Hanson Borders specializes in driving the Firm’s growth and profitability. A thirty-five-year veteran of the Firm, he brings extensive expertise in auditing, tax, and consulting, primarily within the financial services sector. Hanson previously served as the Partner-in-Charge of M&J’s Birmingham, Alabama office.  

Prior to his current role, Hanson gained extensive experience across a diverse range of services for financial institution clients. His leadership was particularly evident in his co-leadership of the firm’s financial institution practice, where he oversaw critical projects such as opinion audits and tax services for private and SEC-registered companies, internal control opinion audits, broker-dealer audits, internal control advisory engagements, and de novo bank formations.

Borders holds an accounting degree from the University of Georgia (1989) and an MBA from Georgia State University (1998). He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in both Georgia and Alabama.