Kara Szafraniec
Kara Szafraniec joined MarshBerry in 2018 and currently serves as Vice President on the Financial Advisory team. In her role, Kara focuses on merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory, due diligence, financial management consulting and valuation services. Kara also serves as a facilitator within MarshBerry’s executive peer exchange network, Connect.
Prior to joining MarshBerry, Kara began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where she worked on a variety of tax consulting and compliance engagement teams with a focus on
large, publicly traded multi-national corporations. After PwC, Kara served as an Equity Research Analyst at Northcoast Research, a sell side equity research firm, covering department stores and specialty retail stocks.
Kara holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from John Carroll University and a Master of Science in Taxation from the University of Denver. She holds the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) designation and currently maintains the FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE®) Exam, in addition to the 7, 63 and 79 FINRA Registrations through MarshBerry Capital, LLC, the affiliated FINRA-registered Broker/Dealer of Marsh, Berry & Co., LLC.