Kelly, has risen to the top of the Big Four accounting industry in being admitted to the KPMG partnership and as leader of the New Jersey advisory practice. She is the youngest Advisory Practice Leader in the firm nationally and one of only seven women partners out of forty eight partners in the New Jersey business unit.

In her role Kelly has oversight responsibility for 125 professionals and for focusing KPMG’s
advisory resources in the New Jersey market including practice and business growth, strategic planning, professional development, technical support and market activity. She also oversees four international client engagement teams of over 60 professionals in nine countries. She has unique capabilities in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and on risk management and compliance.

Following Kelly’s graduation from Fordham University in 1988 she joined KPMG, spending her first six years in the New Jersey audit practice. She then spent two years in Prague, Czech Republic where she helped established the firm’s Central and Eastern European training program.

Returning to New Jersey in 1996, Kelly assumed responsibilities in the firm’s audit practice specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Kelly serves on the Finance Committee, Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Great Essex and Hudson Counties. She volunteers as a fund raiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital.

Kelly is involved in promoting literacy programs in theWest African nation of Liberia through her work with the Liberian Educational Trust. She also works with the Millennium Cities Initiative, an organization that finds ways to promote sustainable economic growth in sub-Saharan African cities.

She is active in the New Jersey and New York Societies of Public Accountants and with the American Institute of Certified Public accountants.

Kelly is dedicated to the retention and advancement of women with KPMG, both in New Jersey and nationally.

She is founding member and co-chair of the New Jersey’s Business Unit’s chapter of KNOW( KPMG’s Network ofWomen) ad is responsible for co-directing all aspects of the program to help women professionals develop needed skills to achieve professional and personal success. She serves on KPMG’sWomen’s Advisory Board which is charged with advancing the personal and professional goals for women in the firm. She is on two sub committees of the Board – Retention of OurWomen and Strategic Market Relationships.

She mentors women within her business unit and recently completed Rutgers University’s six-month Senior Leadership Program forWomen sponsored by the Institute forWomen’s Leadership and the Center forWomen andWork.

In 2007 Kelly was named one of New Jersey’s Best 50Women in Business by NJBIZ Magazine and received from the YWCA of Central New Jersey the Tribute toWomen and Industry (TWIN) Award.

Kelly is married, a mother of two and a resident of Fanwood.