Marianne oversees the accounting strategic alliance partnerships as Senior Strategic Partner Manager – Accounting at Avalara. She brings 14 years of experience and knowledge working with the tax & accounting profession, guiding, and consulting firms as they embrace technology, evaluate internal processes, and expand service lines. 

Before her time at Avalara, Marianne was at CPA.com, where she co-developed and co-facilitated the “Compliance & Advisory: Roadmap to Your Sales and Use Tax Practice Model” workshop, educating accounting firms on the changing sales & use tax landscape, the emerging business opportunity, and how to build the practice. 

Marianne has been a featured speaker at many thought leadership events sharing her passion and extensive knowledge of sales and use tax with the profession. 

About Us: Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. We provide prebuilt integrations with the big-name financial and business management systems you trust, as well as a robust API for do-it-yourself business builders. Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for transaction tax types, like sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and more. If you are an accounting practitioner, Avalara has a suite of Avalara for Accountants solutions, purpose-built to help you directly support your clients. We’re headquartered in Seattle, with offices across the U.S. and in Canada, the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India.