Supporting Strategies | Chesapeake Region

Supporting Strategies provides outsourced bookkeeping services, controller services and operational support to growing businesses.

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Chesapeake Region Team

Jeff Kordela

Managing Director
(443) 252-8074
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Jeff Kordela has a more than 30-year track record of leading accounting and finance teams for businesses in the Chesapeake Region of Maryland. Before launching Supporting Strategies, he held leadership roles with various companies while guiding them through high-growth and change management phases. He has supported companies that doubled year-over-year revenues, grown sales at a 40% 5-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR), expanded into multiple states and foreign countries, completed M&A integrations, and raised millions in equity and debt offerings. His prior positions include Vice President of Finance for Videology, Executive Director for Laureate Education, and Corporate Controller roles for SafeNet and Paratek Microwave. Now as the Managing Director of Supporting Strategies | Chesapeake Region, MD, he guides a team to deliver transformative bookkeeping and controller services to small- to medium-sized companies in the region. Jeff is deeply committed to the local community and belongs to numerous organizations including the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants, American Institute of CPAs, and Financial Executives International, where he sits on the Board as Treasurer for the Baltimore Chapter. He also serves as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors for the Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County Inc., contributes his expertise to Edgewood High School’s Academy of Finance, and volunteers in support of organizations such as Clean Bread and Cheese Creek Inc., and The Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race. Jeff established Supporting Strategies | Chesapeake Region, MD in 2018 to help his community benefit from the expert bookkeeping and controller services that growing businesses and nonprofits have counted on Supporting Strategies to deliver since 2004.

Offering Scalable Bookkeeping and Controller Services in Baltimore and Chesapeake Region, Maryland

Leveraging our Managing Director’s expertise, the Supporting Strategies team works to enhance operations of growing businesses and nonprofit organizations by providing outsourced bookkeeping and controller services in Baltimore and throughout Harford County and the Chesapeake region, including:

Aberdeen
Baltimore
Bel Air
Cockeysville
Towson

What makes us — and therefore our clients — so successful? Our skilled professionals use secure, best-of-breed technology and proven processes to provide services from revenue-cycle management, managing basic expense and vendor payables, and administering payroll to full-scale controller services. We get to know our clients and their specific needs and goals, and we bring a team-based approach that makes our service delivery both personalized and seamless so that business owners and managers can focus on what they do best: growing their businesses.

Serving Clients Across Industries in Baltimore

Maryland conjures images of historical significance and future-forward progress made possible by a hardworking community with broad skills and focused commitment. From shipyards, steel mills, and marine terminals to bio-medical pioneers, cyber-technology startups, and world-class universities, the core industries of Chesapeake Region, Maryland, share common threads of innovation and perseverance.

Supporting Strategies works to provide bookkeeping and controller services in Baltimore and Chesapeake Region, MD, for all of the industries that make the region thrive.

We take pride in delivering bookkeeping and controller services in Baltimore Metro and Harford County, Aberdeen, Baltimore City, Bel Air, Cockeysville, Edgewood, Forest Hill, Havre de Grace, Loch Raven, Lutherville-Timonium, Nottingham, Parkville, Perry Hall, Sparks, Towson, and throughout the Chesapeake region in Maryland.

Ready to learn how you can strengthen your business with bookkeeping and controller services? Schedule your FREE Consultation with Supporting Strategies | Chesapeake Region, MD today.

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"Supporting Strategies has an excellent team of professionals sincerely interested in your success. This NIH SBIR accounting journey has been a learning experience for everyone and I was glad to have you on 'my' team. Grateful for the support!"

Tom Merrill, President & CEO, FocalCool LLC

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is your bookkeeper hourly rate?

A: Supporting Strategies provides right-size bookkeeping and controller services for a range of businesses. Whether you own a startup or an established and growing business, we offer bookkeeping and controller services at a level that works for you. We take a custom approach to bookkeeper hourly rates or pricing packages, depending on the size, needs, and growth goals of each business. Contact us now to learn how outsourced bookkeeping and controller services can help you take your business to the next level.

Q: How would our company work with a virtual bookkeeper?

A: Supporting Strategies collaborates with each client using highly secure, best-of-breed cloud accounting tools. WorkPlace™, our proprietary workflow management system, standardizes and automates our processes to maximize efficiency of service delivery. And these systems are scalable to meet your organization's needs as it grows.

Q: Does Supporting Strategies provide payroll services?

A: Supporting Strategies provides a full range of bookkeeping and operational support services, including payroll administration. We also assist with benefits administration and with new hire/termination coordination and documentation.