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Karen Baum

CPA, CFE
Managing Principal, Sustainability & ESG
BDO USA

As an accomplished strategic advisor with over 35 years' experience, Karen leads BDO USA's Sustainability & ESG Center of Excellence and BDO's Global Sustainability Services and has created and led various innovation and market leadership programs and initiatives at BDO. As a corporate finance professional, she knows the importance of balancing impact and investment working with investors, lenders, and public and private companies to inspire and design practical, value enhancing sustainability 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.

Karen engages professionals across the BDO platform to design agile, transformational solutions to help business leaders achieve top line growth, operational excellence, and enterprise risk mitigation across the organization. She has deep industry experience serving clients in entertainment, media & broadcasting, consumer products, healthcare, software, and technology sectors. Prior to joining BDO, Karen has served in industry in a variety of C-level roles in PE-backed portfolio companies and family office holdings.