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Professional Biography

Ellen Bonito has been practicing in the accounting industry since the mid-1990’s. Ellen specializes in sophisticated income and estate tax planning for high net worth individuals and families, including income tax planning and compliance, succession and estate tax planning, carried-interest planning, and charitable gifting. Ellen has extensive experience with partnership, gift, estate, trust, foundation and individual taxation. Ellen’s clients include family offices, entrepreneurs, high-level executives of public companies as well as founders and managers of private equity, hedge and venture capital funds. Ellen also serves high-profile entertainers, athletes, artists and musicians. While in graduate school, Ellen was the recipient of the “Academic Excellence Award,” an honor bestowed upon the valedictorian of the Masters in Accountancy program at University of Notre Dame. Ellen is a contributor to the treatise Tax Economics of Charitable Giving. She has also been published in the periodical Taxation of Exempts.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Have the courage to follow a path that may be different than the one others tell you is the path to success.

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIO Operatives by Ted Gup