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Earlier this year, the 2019 Accounting Move Project examined the perceptions and misperceptions women

and firms have about how and why women pursue partnerships and other leadership positions. The report

also outlined tactics women, advocates for women and firm leaders can take to ensure all women CPAs can

fully achieve their career aspirations and drive firm growth in the process.

One of the most powerful aspects of the latest Move report is that peer power plays an essential role.

According to the latest Move study, women’s peer networks are both horizontal and tend to be powerful retention

factors. By comparison, men’s peer networks tend to be vertical and transactional.

It’s also clear from the data that more leadership opportunities will ultimately mean more outstanding women

accountants, such as those profiled in these pages.

There are some particularly stellar accounting professionals in the L.A. region who happen to be women and

we’ve alphabetically listed some of the best here, along with some basic information about their careers, practices

and their relevant recent accomplishments.

Congratulations to those superb accountants who made this list and thank you for working to keep the people

and businesses of Los Angeles on the right fiscal track!

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Anna Magzanyan

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VELIDA ALEMICDirector, Transaction Advisory Services

RSM US LLP

V elida Alemic is a transaction advisory services director at RSM US LLP’s Los Angeles office where she has over seven

years of accounting and finance experience. Prior to joining the firm’s Transaction Advi-sory Services practice, she spent three years in the firm’s audit practice during which she served clients in the consumer products, man-ufacturing, distribution, and retail industries. She currently provides buy-side and sell-side due diligence services to both private equity and corporate clients in transactions of all sizes, varying from $10 million to $1.3 billion. She primarily focuses on deals within the consumer products, industrial products, and business services industries.

Alemic also participates in RSM’s Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion program. In partic-ular, she is a member of the STAR women’s program, which supports the advancement and retention of women by promoting advo-cacy, mentorship, and providing professional development to RSM’s employees.

CHERYL CALHOUNManaging Director

CBIZ MHM

A managing director in the CBIZ MHM Los Angeles office, Cheryl Calhoun brings over 30 years of experience and expertise

to all facets of the entertainment industry, with a particular emphasis in film and televi-sion. She represents entertainment industry talent, production companies, entertainment service companies, media service companies, publishing companies and executives in var-ied tax and business matters.

Calhoun is a co-leader of the company’s Multi-Family Office (MFO) and Virtual Fam-ily Office (VFO) Practice. The MFO Practice manages the wealth and finances of high-net-worth families and their closely-held busi-nesses and investments. The VFO Practice employs the experience, expertise, contacts, and connections from the MFO Practice to create a collaborative group of professional advisor services, which CBIZ manages. In addition, Calhoun also specializes in assisting not-for-profit organizations and charitable foundations, combining her talent for business and tax issues with her desire to contribute.

POLINA CHAPIROPartner

Green Hasson Janks

P olina Chapiro is head of Green Hasson Janks’ International Tax Practice and has 35 years of tax experience in the

areas of corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, taxation of multinational companies (foreign tax credit, structuring, repatriation planning), partnership and S-corporations taxation, income tax pro-visions, tax audits at the federal and state level and negotiations with the IRS, state and foreign tax authorities.

Chapiro is a well-known leader in tax on an international level. She has been instru-mental in the firm’s eminence both domes-tically and internationally. Known as a preeminent international tax specialist, she has been able to service clients with multi-national operations allowing Green Hasson Janks the opportunity to work with com-panies and industries that have expanded along with the globalization of the economy. She routinely advises companies in the pri-vate equity, manufacturing, technology and entertainment space.

VALERIE COLINTax Shareholder

Gumbiner Savett Inc.

V alerie Colin is a senior tax shareholder with Gumbiner Savett Inc. in Santa Monica. Colin has over 30 years’ expe-

rience in tax, accounting and business con-sulting. A former auditor turned tax practi-tioner, she helps her clients optimize their tax situations with an emphasis on recogniz-ing income and deductions for tax purposes, maximizing available employment credits and other incentives, such as R&D credits, conservation easements, charitable strate-gies and 199A deductions. She also brings sophisticated tax saving strategies to clients and assists in their implementation through the best of the best resources available.

Colin dedicates many hours of her free time to La Primera, a South Bay charitable and social group where she is currently the secretary, and multiple time past president and treasurer. She also gives time to LMU, her alma mater by having served on the accounting advisory board and interfaces with the accounting society and recruiting events and fund raisers.

BRANDY DAVISPartner in Charge - Entertainment Sports & Media

MGO

B randy Davis has over 16 years of business management and taxation experience, specializing in industry

executives, artists and high net worth individuals. Her areas of expertise include tax planning, estate planning, financial planning, risk management and consulting. In addition, she has experience with corpo-rate taxation and non-profit organizations.

Davis heads up MGO’s entertainment practice and has been a business advisor to a plethora of clients for nearly 20 years. Davis has been named to numerous enter-tainment industry publications’ “Top Ten Business Manager” lists for the last several years. She has developed a significant repu-tation for the guidance she provides to her influential client list, which includes TV writer-producers Peter Lenkov (“Hawaii Five-0”) and Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal”), film producer Roberto Orci (“Star Trek”) and director F. Gary Gray (“Straight Outta Compton,” “The Fate of the Furious.”)

CELINA DOKAPartner

KPMG LLP

C elina J. Doka is an audit partner in KPMG LLP’s Pacific Southwest Asset Management practice and leader of the

firm’s regional Real Estate practice. She has been with the firm for 37 years, and a part-ner for 26. She has extensive experience providing accounting and auditing services for a wide variety of clients, specializing in the real estate and investment manage-ment sectors. She is currently the global lead account partner on one of the world’s largest asset managers. In this capacity, she led the successful effort to convert a sev-en-decade audit relationship to a non-audit relationship after the client, in compliance with European Union Audit Reform rules, changed auditors.

Doka’s professional commitment has long extended to the world of academia as evidenced by her dedication to the UCI Paul Merage School of Business’ Center for Real Estate.

KELLEY GASTINEAUManaging Director

GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, LLC, a B. Riley Financial company

K elley Gastineau has consulted clients in the areas of forensic accounting, fraud investigations, litigation consulting and

corporate bankruptcy & restructuring for the past 20 years. She is Managing Director with GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, LLC, a specialty financial services consulting firm, which merged with Los Angeles, based B. Riley Financial in August of 2018. Gastineau holds a senior management position within the firm and helps lead the Forensic Account-ing & Litigation Support practice in down-town Los Angeles.

Gastineau’s areas of expertise include damages & lost profit analysis, internal inves-tigations, forensic accounting, royalty audits, fraud investigation, Ponzi schemes, white col-lar crime, intellectual property disputes and litigation support. She has consulted for both plaintiffs and defendants of public and private companies. Also contributing to Gastineau’s breadth of knowledge is her experience quan-tifying labor and employment damages.

CORAL HANSENSenior Managing Director

GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, LLC, a B. Riley Financial company

C oral M. Hansen is a CPA with over 28 years of combined public accounting and private industry experience, special-

izing in providing accounting expertise in engagements involving forensic accounting, litigation support, expert witness testimony, and fraud investigations. She is experienced in consulting with clients and counsel on complex business disputes involving the investigation, evaluation and quantification of economic damages.

Over the course of her career, Hansen has performed hundreds of analyses including probate and estate disputes, post-acquisition claims, breach of contract, royalty disputes, lost profits, bankruptcy and insolvency, intel-lectual property, real estate and construction, personal injury, professional malpractice, alter ego, account tracing, fraud and internal inves-tigations. Hansen has been designated as an expert witness and has testified in numerous trials, depositions and arbitrations and has been qualified to testify in Superior, Federal and U.S. Bankruptcy court cases.




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We are honored and proud to congratulate our Managing Directors, Cheryl A. Calhoun and Kelly O’Neil, on being named among the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Most Influential Women in Accounting!

Kelly O’NeilManaging Director &Attest Practice Leader

Cheryl A. CalhounTax & Business Management Managing Director

GEORGINA HARRISDirector

CohnReznick

G eorgina Harris is a director in CohnRez-nick’s Los Angeles audit practice and a leader of the firm’s Hospitality and Not-

for-Profit and Education Industry Practices. She has more than 15 years of diversified public accounting experience serving compa-nies in a variety of industries. Harris has sig-nificant experience working with a variety of educational institutions, religious and cultural organizations, foundations, associations, and social service and charitable agencies, includ-ing those subject to OMB Uniform Guidance audit requirements. She is also an integral part of the not-for-profit and hospitality teams at CohnReznick.

Harris is passionate about advancing women in the accounting profession at CohnReznick and in the broader community. She oversees the firm’s Executive Women’s Forum, which is a national initiative to culti-vate business relationships between executive women. She currently serves as CohnRez-nick’s local office Social Impact Committee leader, where she promotes volunteerism, community service and charitable giving.

TRACY KATZPartner

Gursey | Schneider, LLP

A ttorney Tracy Katz is currently a partner in Gursey | Schneider LLP’s Litigation Services Department, specializing in

the area of forensic accounting in family law and civil litigation matters. She has per-formed a wide range of litigation accounting services including: business appraisals, deter-mination of gross cash flow available for support, marital lifestyle analyses, pension plan allocations, stock option apportion-ments, tracing/characterization of assets, analysis of reimbursement claims, and con-tract and royalty analyses in the film, televi-sion and music industries. Katz has testified as an expert witness on these matters.

Katz is also a frequent lecturer at various continuing education seminars, including: the Family Law Symposiums of both the Beverly Hills Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the California Soci-ety of Certified Public Accountants Family Law Conference, and the joint American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers National Divorce Conference.

PAIGE KUROYAMAPartner, Assurance Services

RSM US LLP

P aige Kuroyama is an audit partner at RSM US LLP in Los Angeles and has more than 18 years in public accounting

experience, along with experience in the financial reporting group of a public report-ing company. She was a member of RSM’s National Office where she developed pol-icies and procedures for auditing fair value of investments. She continues to serve as a technical resource on complex audit and accounting matters and is a subject matter expert in financial instruments, including fair value and revenue recognition.

Kuroyama was the first woman audit part-ner to serve private equity clients in the West Region and currently serves as the Partner responsible for the Southwest Region’s finan-cial services practice which includes private equity, venture capital, hedge, debt, and other investment funds as well as registered invest-ment advisors, broker dealers and specialty finance companies.

JOANNA LIPartner, Tax Services

RSM US LLP

J oanna Li is a tax partner at RSM in Los Angeles where she focuses on growing the corporate tax office practice. She has

served both the Los Angeles and Orange County business communities over the past 19 years and has built a solid reputation for providing outstanding income tax provision, consulting, and compliance services to both publicly traded and privately held com-panies. Her clients do business in various industries, including technology, automo-tive, media and entertainment, apparel, real estate, and manufacturing and distribution.

Li’s clients rely on her to provide profes-sional tax services, including federal, inter-national, and multi-state corporate income tax matters. She has extensive experience in preparation and review of global income tax provisions in accordance with ASC740 compliance for multi-national SEC compa-nies. Her specialty areas include international tax provision, business combination, interim reporting, intra-period allocation, and stock based compensation.



THAT’S HOW WE ROLLANITA WUEntertainment and Media Practice Principal, Green Hasson JanksWomen’s Empowerment MentorEntertainment and Media Practice Principal, Green Hasson Janks DONELLA WILSON

Nonprofit Practice Leader, Green Hasson JanksYoga Enthusiast

POLINA CHAPIROInternational Tax Leader, Green Hasson Janks Animal Rights Advocate

LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL NAMES ANITA WU, POLINA CHAPIRO

AND DONELLA WILSON AMONG LOS ANGELES’ MOST

INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN ACCOUNTING

CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING US TO #BEMORE EVERY DAY.

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JILL MASSEYTax Principal


J ill Massey is a principal with Gumbiner Savett Inc., where she has practiced for over 26 years. She specializes in

tax planning, compliance and tax con-troversy for construction, manufacturing, real estate, and nonprofit clients. She also works with individuals and their multi-gen-erational families.

Due to her extensive knowledge of the existing tax laws and current changes, she has increased her client’s taxpayer deduc-tions and has represented them before the IRS and FTB with great success. Massey has been instrumental in leading much of the firm’s tax department staff training, mentoring and evaluation process. This process has been highly successful in creat-ing a delivery of service to clients from all levels of the staff. Massey received her B.S. in Accounting from Chapman University and her Master of Science, Taxation from Golden Gate University.

JENN MCCABEPartner, ConsultingArmanino LLP

J enn McCabe has more than 26 years of outsourced accounting and finance experience, with a particular expertise

in startups and the advertising and creative production industries, and is a partner at Armanino LLP. She is transforming the accounting profession by aligning human resource solutions, payroll and accounting, and focusing on the need for specialized accounting services in small businesses affected by change in law.

Two years after successfully bringing the company she founded, Team Jenn Corp., to Armanino, McCabe has expanded HR solutions at the firm and launching services into new industries. Her most recent focus of expertise is in California’s worker classi-fication laws within the creative industry. Last year alone, she handled nearly two dozen audits for clients regarding indepen-dent contractors, freelancers and overall employment descriptions, prompting her to develop educational materials for internal growth and future client service.

VICTORIA MOSSTax Managing Director

BDO USA, LLP

V ictoria Moss is a tax managing director in the BDO LA office’s Financial Ser-vices practice. She has over 28 years

of tax experience in both Big Four and Fortune 250 companies. She has provided income tax consulting services to a wide variety of asset management, real estate, temporary staffing, consumer products, and high net worth clients. She advises her cli-ents on due diligence work related to merg-ers, restructuring, sales, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations for her clients, as well as analyzing the tax implications to the funds’ investors. She has also worked with clients in structuring and planning for domestic and international asset man-agement businesses, including state and local taxation, and management company structuring.

Moss recently joined BDO and has quickly immersed herself in the tax prac-tice and office culture. She is focused on expanding BDO’s tax footprint in the Los Angeles financial services industry.

PATRICIA O’CONNELLPartner and Chief Operating Officer

Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP

A s COO of Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP, Patricia O’Connell leads many of the firm’s strategic and opera-

tional initiatives, including many that are transformational to the organization. In leading these projects, she identifies the root causes of process inefficiencies and welcomes ideas and solutions from team members regardless of tenure. As a collabo-rative, pragmatic, and approachable leader, she sets the right tone at the top.

As a member of the firm’s executive committee, O’Connell is helping to shape the future of HCVT, addressing technology, virtual/remote work arrangements, privacy, security, attracting, developing, and retain-ing the right people, continuing to provide value to clients and providing a work envi-ronment where all can thrive. O’Connell is a member of the Women @ HCVT, the firm’s initiative that is building a work environment that helps to empower, pro-mote, and retain the women of HCVT.



KELLY O’NEILLead Managing Director and Shareholder

CBIZ MHM

K elly O’Neil is a lead managing director at CBIZ MHM a national accounting and financial services provider, and a

shareholder at Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. (MHM), a national CPA firm that provides audit and attest services. With nearly 20 years of experience, her expertise is providing audit and consulting services to life sciences, technology, manufacturing and distribution, construction and real estate, and defense contractors for both public and large, private-ly-held companies.

O’Neil has a strong understanding of business processes and has been instrumental in developing solutions for corporate manage-ment on various accounting matters, with a significant focus on compliance, operations and internal control environments and the related financial statement impacts. She spe-cializes in revenue recognition, business com-bination and purchase accounting, account-ing for stock-based compensation, equity and debt instruments, derivatives accounting, and general business consulting.

RENEE ORDENEAUXPartner, Audit

Armanino LLP

R enee Ordeneaux is an audit partner at Armanino LLP who focuses on nonprof-its, assurance and audit, and business

consulting. She provides audit and consulting services to a broad range of clients, including nonprofit organizations, privately held busi-nesses and public companies. With more than 26 years of experience in public accounting and industry, Ordeneaux brings motivational guidance, entrepreneurial energy and dedica-tion to the profession.

Ordeneaux is a champion of shaping the future workforce through recruiting, teaching and speaking engagements. She is dedicated to addressing the misconceptions of what it takes to become a partner within the account-ing profession. Within the firm, she has devoted time to the firm’s newest recruits and to those making the transition to partner. She chairs the Partner Nominating Committee — a group of partners tasked with assessing busi-ness needs and evaluating partner candidates through established criteria.

PARNIA PANDKHOUDirector, Outsourced Finance Accounting

& Consulting ServicesArmanino LLP

P arnia Pandkhou is steering the accounting profession into unchartered territories as laws change, the marketplace shifts

and business needs transform from industry to industry. She is a director of Outsourced Finance Accounting & Consulting Services (OFA) at Armanino LLP. Pandkhou manages a team of accountants, bringing in-depth experience in acting CFO roles, along with her keen skills in auditing, budgeting, man-agement, corporate finance, managerial finance and project finance.

A former CFO and controller, Pandk-hou has over 15 years of public and private accounting experience. She serves clients in a wide range of industries, including real estate, cannabis, bioplastics, and technology. Taking a comprehensive approach, inclusive of opera-tional aspects, she provides expertise in finan-cial planning and analysis driven by KPIs. Her most notable professional accomplishments have been in leading the OFA team into the newly-burgeoning cannabis industry, as well as expanding OFA services in real estate.

RACHEL ROJANYDirector

Grobstein Teeple LLP

R achel Rojany is a director at Grobstein Teeple. She has been in practice since 2004 and is a Certified Public Accoun-

tant. She believes that a successful practice is the result of building positive relationships with her clients, as well as with her team.

At Grobstein Teeple, Rojany’s profes-sional experience focuses on individual and business tax compliance and planning, with experience in an array of different industries, including entertainment and media, professional services, real estate, and high net worth individuals and fami-lies. She leads the firm’s tax practice as the director and manages her own practice. Using her 10 plus years of experience, she has developed and grown the tax team to provide an exceptional client experience and meet the needs of a growing practice. She’s also assisted a great deal in creating the internal structure to grow the firm’s business management department.


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At KPMG, we never underestimate the power of passionate individuals who are committed to success. We are proud to congratulate Celina Doka, Karen Saunders and Jeannette Wistner for being named Most Influential Women in Accounting by the Los Angeles Business Journal for their outstanding leadership and contribution to the accounting industry.

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KAREN SAUNDERSPartner

KPMG LLP

K aren Saunders is an audit partner in KPMG LLP’s financial services practice and she is a Securities and Exchange

Commission (SEC) reviewing partner. She has been with the firm for 33 years, and a CPA since 1989. Saunders has extensive experience providing accounting and auditing services for a wide variety of public and pri-vate companies, specializing in the banking and insurance sectors.

Saunders has been the leader of KPMG’s greater Los Angeles banking practice. She regularly participates in local industry events and moderates banking share forums for local banks focusing on regulatory matters and upcoming transition to the expected credit loss model. She also has expertise in SEC reporting matters for financial institutions. Her extensive experience includes advising companies on auditing and accounting issues including allowance for loan losses, deriv-atives and financial instruments, mortgage banking and securitization of assets, reporting and disclosure advice, valuation of assets, business combinations.

CYNTHIA SCHOELENPartner

O&S CPAs & Business Advisors

C ynthia Schoelen is a partner at O&S CPAs & Business Advisors. She brings 27 years of experience and leads client

engagements in accounting, compilations, reviews and audits. She began her career working for the IRS, where she spent three years on intensive tax law training and audit-ing income tax returns for individuals, busi-nesses and corporations. She now supervises a staff of CPAs and para-professionals preparing GAAP, GASB, and OCBOA financial state-ments for use by management and lending institutions, assists clients in analyzing their financial statements to help them understand and manage their business operations and is the Partner in charge of audits.

Schoelen spends the majority of her professional time in the nonprofit and gov-ernmental sector. She supervises Yellow Book, OMB Uniform Guidance and standard non-profit audit engagements. Addition-ally, she oversees staff that compiles books, records and schedules for clients that use other audit firms.

CONNIE SCOTTITax Senior Manager

Moss Adams

C onnie Scotti has practiced public accounting since 2008. She serves as an integrated international business advisor

to multinational companies and individuals, providing advice on tax implications and planning opportunities for their international business ventures. Scotti provides compre-hensive tax planning related to U.S. owners of foreign assets, income tax treaties, branch profits tax, classification, withholding and documentation obligations, and location of holding companies for intellectual property. She coordinates U.S. information returns pertaining to foreign withholding, transac-tions with foreign related parties, foreign bank accounts, and U.S. ownership of foreign cor-porations and partnerships.

Scotti advises clients on the new inter-national areas of legislation resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including the transition toll tax, global intangible low taxed income (GILTI) provisions, foreign-derived intangible income (FDII) as it relates to intangible property, and base erosion anti-abuse tax interest limitations.

HELENA SONGAudit Principal


H elena Song has been with Gumbiner Savett Inc. for 12 years. Having recently been promoted to principal within the

firm, she has extensive experience in financial statements audits, due diligence and special reports. She works with both privately held and SEC registered entities in various indus-try sectors, with a specialty in the real estate industry, handling large audit engagements for real estate investment funds, residential and commercial real estate builders and operators.

Song is a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. She is fluent in both English and Mandarin. Song received her MS in Accounting from Indiana University Indianapolis, Kelley School of Business; her Master in Education from Boston University, School of Education; and her B.A. in English/Business Administration from Beijing Foreign Studies University in China.




DONELLA WILSONPartner

Green Hasson Janks

D onella Wilson is a partner leading Green Hasson Janks’ Nonprofit Practice. She has over 20 years of public accounting

experience providing audit, accounting and special project services and works exclusively in the nonprofit sector.

She is a frequent guest lecturer and conference speaker on nonprofit financial management and governance issues. She co-chairs the firm’s quarterly nonprofit educational workshops and is the nonprofit training coordinator for Green Hasson Janks University. She is a frequent guest lecturer and conference speaker on nonprofit financial management and governance issues, and as an adjunct professor, she has taught Nonprofit Financial Management at USC’s School of Public Policy, Planning and Development. She served on the planning committee for the California Society of CPAs’ Annual Not-for-Profit Organizations Conference for seven years and co-chaired the conference in 2016 and 2017. Her leadership has helped shape the culture at Green Hasson Janks.

JEANNETTE WISTNERPartner

KPMG LLP

J eannette Wistner is a tax partner and leader of KPMG LLP’s Pacific Southwest Global Mobility Services practice. She

has been with the firm for 23 years, and she’s been a CPA for 20 years. Wistner has worked with KPMG in Miami, Seattle, Philadelphia and Paris, where she focused on providing both compliance and advisory services to multinational organizations with both expa-triate and foreign national populations across several industries. Jeannette has built a repu-tation for providing excellent client service, and she is very involved with recruiting and development of KPMG professionals.

Wistner has extensive experience in help-ing clients effectively address their employ-ment mobility needs with a focus on provid-ing international income tax compliance and advisory services, cross border tax, payroll delivery, expatriate policy development and process administration support. In addition, she has successfully lead the global transition and coordination of KPMG’s worldwide GMS services for several engagements.

ANITA WUPrincipal

Green Hasson Janks

A nita Wu joined Green Hasson Janks in 2000 and has more than 20 years of auditing experience within the enter-

tainment industry. Her specialty includes profit participation audits on behalf of talent, investors and co-producers at both the major and mini studios. She currently manages most of the audits at Walt Disney Pictures and Television and NBC Universal. Wu has also performed audits of merchandise licensing royalties and music royalties.

An experienced accountant in the enter-tainment industry, Wu is a regular speaker and writer and was a co-author for the firm’s 2017 Entertainment and Media Whitepaper. Additionally, she enjoys working with inno-vators and pioneers in the entertainment industry and collaborating with clients as a means towards getting the best results. Wu is also a leader of Green Hasson Janks’ Women’s Empowerment Initiative and a mentor and role model for younger members of the Firm.



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