CHRISTINE S. GUZMAN, Managing Partner
Chris Guzman is MBP’s managing partner and responsible for executing the mission and vison of the firm. As the lead partner on most engagements, she ensures compliance with the firm’s standards of excellence, as well as, industry standards for services rendered.
Chris has over 23 years of audit, accounting and tax experience, including tax planning, business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and organization and human resource management. In 2018, she was invited and inducted into the Forbes Finance Council®.
She spent the first half of her career with top regional and domestic CPA firms developing expertise in audit, tax and forensic accounting services for publicly- and privately-held businesses. She specialized in industries ranging from hedge funds, manufacturing, distribution, entertainment, real estate development, retirement plans and non-profit organizations. This experience also led to her leadership on due diligence and quality of earnings projects for merger and acquisition transactions on both the buyer and seller sides.
During this time, she also gained forensic accounting experience by leading fraud investigations and offering financial litigation support at legal trials, mediations, arbitrations, and depositions.
Chris spent the second half of her career as Chief Financial Officer in industries including business process outsourcing, third party logistics, and technology staff augmentation firms, with all entities focused on business-to-business operations for mostly Fortune 1,000 businesses. Through oversight of the accounting, tax, finance, payroll, human resources and legal teams, she’s directed and managed business corporate strategies and integrations through financial planning and reporting, treasury management, resource allocation, and regulatory and tax compliance, while also managing the legal environment. During these years, she also served as retirement plan Trustee where she developed additional expertise in retirement planning and compliance requirements with the Internal Revenue Code.
As Chief Financial Officer, Chris he’s led complex corporate restructures through the design and development of internal control, and overseen merger and acquisition transactions from Letter of Intent to due diligence to sale/acquisition and subsequent earn-out management, while ensuring multi-national legal and tax compliance.
Chris obtained a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Florida International University in Miami, Florida where she also participated and assisted with Myers-Briggs research studies of accounting students. She’s also completed graduate studies in Forensic Accounting at Southern New Hampshire University, where she was selected to participate in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Virtual Experience training program.
Chris’s favorite quote is “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken,” by Oscar Wilde. Her favorite hobbies are songwriting, music arrangement and performance. As a Miami native, she also loves watersports. Her goal is to inspire people to own their lives; to be fulfilled, live fearlessly, and follow their dreams.
EDUARDO GUZMAN, Chief Operating Officer
Eddie Guzman is MPB’s Chief Operating Officer and develops strategies to set the direction for the firm’s future sustainability, growth and profitability. He also supports and liaises clients with their organizational and operational initiatives to ensure successful transition and continuity after mergers or acquisitions.
Eddie brings more than 25 years’ of diversified operational optimization experience with a proven track record of building top producing management teams and driving efficiencies that lead to exponential enterprise value growth. Eddie’s “service as a culture” is his focus on delivering, and contributes to his client-centric, innovative, and high-quality solutions.
As a lead senior analyst in the managed behavioral healthcare industry, he developed expertise in benefit administration, coordination of care for substance abuse and mental health services, and financial risk transfer to HMOs, PSNs, commercial employers, government agencies, and other entities.
In the public sector, his value-add contributions in organization and workflow management increased value stream mapping, and improved processes and compliance across business units to promote the mission and vision of sector initiatives.
Eddie is Six Sigma Certified and currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Science Management at the University of Florida. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Administration at Barry University in Miami, Florida. His hobbies include playing guitar, songwriting and motorcycles.