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Karen Baum

Sustainability & ESG Advisory Services Leader

CPA, CFE

Executive Summary

As a leader in BDO’s global ESG & Sustainability services and a member of BDO’s global private equity and corporate finance teams, Karen inspires and drives sustainable, value enhancing solutions for private equity and corporate clients ensuring best-in-class client service.

Karen is an accomplished strategic corporate finance advisor with more than 30 years of experience working across each stage of the M&A life cycle. She brings insight and innovation to complex transactions and operational finesse to maximize synergy capture and sustainable value creation. Karen engages the expertise of subject matter experts across the BDO platform to design agile, transformational solutions to help companies achieve top line growth, operational excellence and enterprise risk mitigation across the organization. Her industry experience includes serving clients in fintech, entertainment, media & broadcasting, healthcare, software, and technology sectors.

  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Association for Corporate Growth
  • Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
  • California State Society of Certified Public Accountants
  • International Society of Sustainability Professionals
  • Texas Society of Certified Public Accountant


  • B.A., Economics, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles