Bio

Brian Francese is a principal with Baker Tilly’s New York assurance practice and a leader with the firm’s e-commerce and large retail industry practice. He brings more than 18 years of public accounting experience with a specific focus serving private equity and family office backed domestic and multinational companies as well as publicly traded companies. Brian’s clients have come to rely on his practical business guidance and assistance in meeting their objectives while considering him a valued architect. With Brian’s experiences he can bring a practical audit approach to all his clients. His extensive national office experience, as outlined below, results in audit approaches that are concise, efficient and do not exceed that of which is required by the underlying audit standards. Further, when coupled with Brian’s vast industry knowledge, Brian’s audit approaches focus on entity specific risks that truly matter to those entities stakeholders and ownership (e.g., family-owned vs. private equity owned vs. family office owned vs. publicly traded). Bachelor of Science in accounting University of Connecticut;