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Ms. Stephenson founded The Woodward Group to provide corporations with cost effective, expert corporate finance services. She is actively involved with Woodward's clients and is particularly adept at creating unique financing programs, transaction structures and completing complex financial analyses when required. Tara Stephenson's transactional experience spans virtually every industry within the US and overseas. Prior to founding The Woodward Group, Ms. Stephenson headed investment banking for a regional investment/merchant bank and was a founding principal of one of Philadelphia's largest investment banks. Earlier in her career, Tara Stephenson was an officer with a multinational commercial bank and a financial analyst with Warburg, Paribas, Becker and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Tara Stephenson has successfully closed transactions aggregating in excess of $2.5 billion during her career. She was named to the Pennsylvania Honor Roll of Women and awarded the Philadelphia Business Journal "40 under 40" designation and one of Business Philadelphia's "Women to Watch". She has authored articles regarding valuations, capitalization and structuring transactions which have appeared in the Mid-Atlantic Guide to Venture Financing, Capital Growth Interactive, and several industry and regional specific business news publications. Ms. Stephenson holds an MBA from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business, from which she was graduated with distinction and a BSFS in International Economics from Georgetown University, which included study abroad at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Ms. Stephenson is also a member of the academic honor society, Beta Gamma Sigma and the American Society of Appraisers | 