Antonella Puca is a Managing Director at MPI Valuation Services and the author of Early Stage Valuation (Wiley Finance: 2020 www.bvresources.com/products/early-stage-valuation-a-fair-value-perspective). Antonella specializes in the valuation of private equity and venture-backed companies for financial and tax reporting, M&A transactions, buy-sell agreements, estate planning and litigation purposes. Antonella is currently serving on the Business Valuation Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and as a consultant on the CFA exam development team. She has served as a member of AIMA’s research committee and as an executive board member of the CFA Society of New York.

Antonella is a frequent presenter and author on valuation and alternative investment topics. She holds the CFA charter and is licensed as a CPA in California and in New York. She holds the Certificate in Entity and Intangibles Valuation (CEIV) and is Accredited in Business Valuation by the AICPA. Antonella earned a degree in Economics, with honors, from the University Federico II of Naples, Italy and a Master in Law Studies in Taxation from NYU School of Law. She has been a research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Italian national sailing team.