Working your Network: Developing and Maintaining a Strong Network for Young Professionals

Andrew Dakki is partner and co-founder of DA Advisory Group. DA Advisory Group is a CPA firm focused on providing accounting and consulting services to an array of industries including real estate, cannabis, franchising, retail, manufacturing, and health sciences. The firm services clients ranging in size starting with small businesses that are pre-revenue and as large as established entities with $100 million in revenue. Our firm is dedicated to the success and story of each of our clients and is there every step of the way, from the start-up phase to the potential sale or exit of the business. Prior to founding DA Advisory Group, Andrew has had prior work experience at Doeren Mayhew, Ernst & Young, and BorgWarner with the majority of his experience in client serving through financial due diligence, consulting, and assurance services for a variety of industries.

Becky is a Manager within Plante Moran's National Tax Office (NTO). The NTO is Plante Moran’s center of high-level, technical knowledge that provides consulting services on challenging tax issues, identifies innovative strategies to minimize tax, and monitors tax legislation and developing trends to help clients make the best tax decisions. Becky specializes in handling the tax aspects of transactions and frequently plan the purchase, sale, formation, and restructuring of businesses, including liquidations, mergers, and acquisitions. She also manages transactional tax matters, such as analyzing the difference between asset sales and stock sales, qualified small business stock, purchase price allocations, transaction document issues, and transaction costs. Becky serves clients in a variety of industries, including service, technology, manufacturing, and financial institutions.

Ms. VanderVeen is a member in Dickinson Wright’s Banking and Finance Group. Ms. VanderVeen assists clients (both lenders and borrowers) with all aspects of commercial finance transactions, including initial structuring and documentation, modifications and amendments, and restructurings and refinancings. Ms. VanderVeen has experience in multi-lender/multi-borrower loans, cash-flow-based and asset-based loans, real estate financing, acquisition financing, and cross-border financing. Ms. VanderVeen also assists corporate clients in a variety of business matters.