Bio

Dara comes to GulfStar with 20 years of marketing and communications experience. Prior to joining GulfStar, Dara served as the interim director of marketing and communications at Dini Spheris (formerly Dini Partners). Previously, she worked as a senior marketing executive at Ernst & Young in London, where she managed the global regulatory reform integrated marketing program across banking and capital markets and financial services teams in Europe. Prior to that, Dara worked in Houston as a marketing specialist at UHY Advisors (now BDO USA). She currently serves on the Women’s Forum Committee for the Houston Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. Dara received a Bachelor of Science in Radio, Television, Film and a Business Foundations Certification with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin.