Greg is a licensed CPA. He provides tax advisory services, including tax planning/mitigation, transaction advisory services, structuring, and compliance. His business client base includes closely-held, multi-state businesses in various industries, many of which operate in all fifty states and overseas. Greg also assists these clients with respect to tax provision/ASC 740 compliance. Additionally, Greg provides tax compliance and planning services for high-net worth individuals, estates, and trusts

After graduation from college, Ms. Berk worked in the field of public accounting for various Certified Public Accounting firms. She then co-founded Berk & Berk, CPA PC, a Public Accounting and Tax Practice in New Jersey, with her father in 1988. After Mr. Berk passed away, Ms. Berk formed S E Berk CPA PC in New York in 1996. The Firm is engaged in various areas of Public Accounting, including Accounting Services, Management Consulting and Tax Preparation and Planning. Ms. Berk has over 38 years of experience with a significant concentration of clientele in the tri-state area and throughout the United States. Ms. Berk’s extensive accounting experience includes management consulting service, in-depth tax planning, tax preparation, audit representation and obtaining financing for client expansion. Clientele include various business entities, medium to high net worth individuals and other professionals. Business clientele include entities in the medical, real estate, retail, contractor, distribution, legal and engineering industries. Individual clientele include executives, doctors, lawyers, teachers, entertainers, musicians, creative artists and investors.

Joe counsels clients on a wide range of state and local taxation issues and represents taxpayers in disputes with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance as well as the New York City Department of Finance. As the Sales & Use Tax Practice Leader, Joe’s practice focuses on sales and use tax issues, especially in the technology (software as a service, cloud computing, digital products, etc.), fine arts and construction industries. Joe is the primary author of our firm’s sales tax blog, All About Sales Tax. Joe is a contributing editor (New York Chapter) of the American Bar Association's Sales and Use Tax Deskbook. Joe also counsels clients regarding personal income tax planning and residency issues. He co-authored, with Mark S. Klein, the 2019 Guidebook to New York Taxes, a reference source of information on this topic and he writes a column for Tax Notes State called “The Endres Assessment." He also advises clients with respect to various federal and state tax incentive-based programs such as the federal renewable energy investment and production tax credits, New York State's Start-Up NY Program, the Excelsior Program, the former Empire Zone Program, the Brownfield Tax Credit Program and the Historical Building Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program. As the Abandoned Property Audits Practice Leader, Joe counsels clients in this area of law and has represented large corporations in complex compliance matters such as multistate abandoned property audits and voluntary disclosures.

Barbara E. Bel is a Tax Partner of the Firm providing tax and management advisory services for 30+ years. She specializes in providing tax and planning advice for privately held companies across a wide range of industries serving small to middle market clients, individuals and families. Barbara consults on matters related to divorce and social security strategies. She is a member of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals.

Sallie Mullins Thompson started her financial services practice in 1996 and provides assistance to professionals, families, and small business owners in accounting setup/oversight; tax compliance; budgeting/cash flow projections; income/asset protection; investments; and college, retirement, and transition planning. Since the pandemic she delivers all offerings virtually. Through education, empathy, enthusiasm, and passion, as a comprehensive financial planner; investment adviser; tax strategist; and divorce financial/tax analyst, Sallie helps her clients navigate all aspects of their finances and taxes, so they can live life the way they want. Before beginning her financial services practice, Sallie spent 20 years with IBM in NYC and Houston as a system engineer, project manager, and marketing representative working in the banking industry. Sallie has a special interest in families who are navigating the divorce process and helps them create a financial map for their future. She wants all their particular details to be covered, both parties to end up with enough money to live, and there to be no losers. That way everyone is OK and ready to go. Since taxes are the biggest drag on people having the money they need, Sallie quantifies all tax ramifications for financial decision-making. Thus, working with her can result in more cash, less taxes to pay, and additional income for major purchases, education funds, retirement, and legacies.

Ms. Jancko-Baken is a partner at the matrimonial law firm of Fredman Baken & Novenstern, LLP, located in White Plains, New York. She has been practicing in the area of matrimonial law for the past 32 years as a litigator, collaborative attorney and mediator. Ellen is a 1989 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, having served on the Law Review. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. Ellen has been married to Scott Baken, Esq. for 40 years and they have three adult children, one is a comedy writer, one a CPA and the third a Rabbi. Ellen is an avid reader and a serious sports fan. Ellen is a member of the Bar of the States of New York and Connecticut. She also is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Ellen currently serves as the Vice President of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals (NYACP), an organization that promotes the collaborative process through a team approach of highly skilled collaboratively- trained professionals. Ellen is a past Chair of the Domestic Relations – Family Law Section of the Westchester County Bar Association. For the past 32 years, Ellen has assisted clients in devising creative solutions to matrimonial problems with an emphasis on preserving assets, promoting healing and protecting child welfare. She pursues these goals proactively and cost- effectively, with an eye toward minimizing counterproductive and time-consuming litigation. In situations where preventive strategies are not feasible, Ms. Jancko- Baken aggressively defends her client’s rights in trial and appellate proceedings before the courts. While Ellen has litigated hundreds of matrimonial cases, she favors Collaborative Law, as a dispute resolution method. Ellen strongly believes her clients are better served through interest-based negotiations than through costly litigation. She understands the limitations of the court system to address the needs of families in transition. Ellen aims to protect children and preserve family resources as best as possible, while striving to reach each resolution of issues with the family’s future well-being in mind.

Meg Sussman is a clinical psychologist who has been working with individuals, couples, and families for over 30 years. During that time she has specialized in helping divorcing couples transition to the next phase of their lives so that all family members can have the best possible outcome. Dr. Sussman has been an active member of the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals from its inception and currently serves as Secretary of the Board. As a collaborative professional, Dr. Sussman serves as a family specialist where she helps parents and children learn how to communicate more effectively, develop parenting plans and cope with the emotions they experience during this difficult time in their lives. This involves working with attorneys and financial professionals as part of a team. In addition to her psychotherapy and collaborative practice, Dr. Sussman serves as a parent coordinator to assist parents when there are decisions to be made and to work together in the best interests of their children.

Irene Wachsler, CPA, MBA is the current owner of Wachsler CPA LLC, a niche public accounting firm focusing on the Entertainment Industry, Digital/Crypto Currency Compliance, and Tax Controversy. She is also a current Board Member and Virtual Chapter President of the National Conference of CPA Practitioners (NCCPAP). Prior to COVID, she also ran the Massachusetts Society of CPA’s South Shore Breakfast Networking Forum for over 15 years. Irene holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with a concentration in Computer Science from the University of Lowell, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Babson College.

Orumé Hays, CPA, CGMA. Founder, HAYS CPA LLC, is a CPA in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is also a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA). Her extensive finance and accounting experience includes working with small, medium, local, national, and international businesses. She has over a decade of business operations and financial expertise in various business sectors, including architecture, design, entertainment, event productions, food & beverage, healthcare, and hospitality. Orumé is a active member of the AICPA and the NYSSCPA. She is a member of the Financial Accounting Standards, Small Firms Practice Management (past-chair), Personal Financial Planning, and Not-for-Profit Organizations NYSSCPA Committees. She is an NYSSCPA Director-at-Large, and the immediate past president of the Manhattan/Bronx Chapter. Hays is also an executive committee member of AICPA’s - Private Companies Practice Section (PCPS). She is a past two-term Treasurer of the University of Benin Alumni Association North America. She is a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor and also an adjunct lecturer at the Lucille and Jay Chazanoff School of Business, College of Staten Island (CSI) of the City University of New York (CUNY).