Karen Baum

As an accomplished strategic and corporate finance advisor with over 35 years of experience, Karen leads BDO’s Sustainability & ESG Center of Excellence, overseeing the development and execution of BDO USA's own sustainability strategy as well as the firm’s sustainability services and solutions, meeting clients where they are on their sustainability journeys. Working with multidisciplinary teams across the firm and BDO's global network of 170 member firms, she leads the development of BDO Global Sustainability services and solutions and has created and led various innovation, market and solution development programs and initiatives at BDO.

 As a corporate finance professional, Karen brings insight and innovation to her clients by translating trends and seeing opportunities to create enterprise value while navigating diverse stakeholder expectations. Karen helps companies maximize ROI of sustainability and resiliency programs and investments by taking a pragmatic approach to incorporating sustainability into their immediate and longer-term strategic agendas. She has deep industry experience serving clients in entertainment, media & broadcasting, consumer products, healthcare, software, and technology sectors. Prior to joining BDO, Karen served in industry in a variety of C-level roles in PE-backed portfolio companies and family office holdings.