Dario began his career as an entrepreneur at the age of 16, starting his own landscape contracting business, Twin Landscaping in 1986. He started this business with only the lawnmower borrowed from his father. Dario grew this business to 275 weekly customers, three crews of landscapers with a total of 12 employees and annual revenues exceeding half a million dollars. Because of this, he has much wisdom and knowledge beyond his years. After working full-time as a small business owner, Dario continued working as a student financing his own way through DePaul University’s Business program. He earned a degree in commerce and accounting, and used the tools learned and perfected to start developing a CPA firm in 1994. Dario has successfully helped over a hundred business clients and many more individual clients to succeed in business and personally. Dario uses his unique business experience and different licenses in a comprehensive approach to help his clients succeed while maintaining profitability, sustaining growth, and overcoming the many challenges business face.This experience also allows Dario to empathize with the business owners since he himself started a business from the ground up, and grew it into a turn-key operation that ran itself. Dario has the uncanny ability to place himself in the shoes of his clients and see their perspective on almost every issue. This enabled Dario to expand his practice to concentrate in highly personalized tax and financial planning services. This diverse background also affords Dario the unique opportunity to utilize both tax and investment strategies when working with clients.Dario's goal is to assist his clients reach their goals in business and individually.Specialties: CPA, accounting, tax planning and tax preparation, new business advisor, incorporations, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, small business accounting and tax for the hospitality, legal, hi-tech, construction and other professional services.