Arielle brings with her a strong consulting and financial services background. She studied accounting at DePaul and spent the first five years of her career in large firm consulting, working in Corporate Restructuring and later in Mergers & Acquisitions, performing financial and operational due diligence for Private Equity transactions. She has also worked at several smaller consulting firms, analyzing sales, operational efficiencies, unraveling financial quagmires, and even doing some business development. In other words, Arielle likes numbers and figuring out how businesses work. 

On a personal level, Arielle is a creative spirit. She is a volunteer gardener for Lincoln Park Zoo, and helps design the Christmas Around the World exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. She can sew, knit, figure out almost any craft, and is a self-taught ukulele player. If you're looking for Arielle outside the office this summer, you don't have to look far - she'll be on a boat or at a Cubs game.