Karen Baum Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

As an accomplished strategic advisor with over 35 years’ experience, Karen leads BDO USA’s Sustainability & ESG Center of Excellence, BDO Global Sustainability Services development and has led numerous innovation and market leadership initiatives at BDO. As a corporate finance and strategy professional, she knows the importance of balancing performance and impact working with investors, lenders, and public and private companies to inspire and design practical, value enhancing solutions for organizations beginning or advancing along their sustainability journey. She brings insight and innovation to her clients by translating trends and seeing opportunities to create enterprise value while navigating diverse stakeholder expectations. Karen helps companies maximize ROI of sustainability and resiliency programs and investments by taking a pragmatic approach to incorporating ESG into their immediate and longer-term strategic agendas.

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

As one of the world’s largest accounting and advisory firms, BDO helps a diverse range of clients with a diverse range of needs. This is particularly true of our Advisory Practice, which provides an array of regulatory, risk and executive services to clients navigating an exceptional range of challenges, changes, and opportunities. Our professionals are drawn from a variety of multidisciplinary backgrounds, allowing us to deliver insightful, innovation solutions – no matter the challenge, no matter the need.

Chicago, Il, Us

BDO's Transaction Advisory Services professionals work with strategic and financial buyers, sellers, and lenders across the full spectrum of merger and acquisition engagements. Comprised of multidisciplinary professionals, our partner-led transaction advisory practice are committed to delivering the highest levels of responsiveness, and promote regular, ongoing dialogues throughout every stage of the transaction cycle.Karen has 30+ years of M&A, operational and SEC expertise serving middle market companies, lenders and PE firms providing customized due diligence and has successfully assisted her clients complete numerous financings through public offerings, private placements and debt transactions. In addition, as both a consultant and a C-level executive she has hands on leadership of IPOs and secondary registrations as well as distressed acquisitions, divestitures, turnarounds, performance optimization, liquidations and Chapter 11 planning and execution. Karen's transaction advisory expertise in both private industry and public practice is well recognized in the entertainment, media, consumer products, retail, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing and distribution, software, real estate, professional services and technology sectors.

Boston, Ma, Us

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategy expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. With proven skills in complex cases and exceptional strength in analytics, CRA consultants have provided astute guidance to clients in thousands of successful engagements. We offer valuation and M&A advisory services, litigation and regulatory support, business strategy and planning, market and demand forecasting, policy analysis, and risk management consulting.

Dallas, Tx, Us

TurnPoint Advisors deliver C-level hands-on guidance to middle market companies facing operational, financial, restructuring, or acquisition/post-merger integration challenges. We focus on middle-market companies with revenues from $50 million to $2 billion. Our professionals have demonstrated track records and C-level experience leading businesses in times of rapid change, restructuring, and merger integration. We have successfully advised publicly traded and privately held companies in creating over $5 billion in value for their stakeholders. Our experience enables us to bring sound analytics, clear communication and disciplined execution to each engagement.

Privately held consumer products company engaged in apparel design, manufacturing and distribution.

PE portfolio company engaged in design and development of licensed music based digital game software.

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Multidisciplinary leadership and technical expertise across a broad spectrum of M&A transactions ranging from platform and add-on acquisitions, IPOs and secondary offerings to divestitures, recaps and restructuring transactions for a wide range of both public and private companies. Trusted corporate finance advisor and strategic IT leader serving early stage technology,media and entertainment companies to global multinational telecom, biotech and consumer products companies. Led IT and financial teams in business process change management and ERP engagements for Fortune 500 companies.

Ba, Cum Laude, Economics, Political Science, Accounting

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