| Mary has over 25 years of experience valuing closely held businesses and intellectual property for tax and strategic business planning purposes. Mary’s areas of expertise include succession planning, ESOP’s, strategic valuation for acquisition and/or divestiture, and business and tax litigation. She has served as an expert witness in both federal and state court. Mary’s principal business valuation experience is in the following sectors: manufacturing, distribution, printing, agriculture, professional services, healthcare, logistics, computer software, computer consulting, and investment holding companies including partnerships. Prior to her career in business valuation, Mary was a tax consultant where she focused on research and compliance issues for various corporations, partnerships and high net worth individuals. Active in a number of professional associations, Mary participates in the following organizations: American Society of Appraisers; American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Association for Corporate Growth; Illinois CPA Society and the Chicago Estate Planning Council; in addition to various civic, religious and charitable organizations. Mary is an adjunct professor at DePaul University teaching the tax valuations course in the Masters of Science in Taxation program. |