Mark Sellner is Director of Graduate Studies in Taxation
for the Master of Business Taxation Program at the University of Minnesota. He
teaches graduate level courses and seminars on corporate tax, mergers and
acquisitions, accounting for income taxes, and consolidated returns. He consults
on virtually all areas of business and executive taxation and mergers and
acquisitions, including advising large corporate buyers, entrepreneurial and
family business sellers, corporate executives, and high net worth individuals.
He has both Fortune 500 and Big Four corporate tax and mergers and acquisitions
experience.
Mark was tax counsel and director of U.S. taxes at Ecolab Inc., in St. Paul,
Minnesota, and completed a three-year Ernst & Young National Tax Department
corporate tax and consolidated returns assignment in Washington, D.C. He has
served as partner-in-charge of tax training at KPMG's metro New York
headquarters, and was most recently a tax partner at LarsonAllen in Minneapolis.
He chaired the Baker Tilly International federal tax committee for six years.
Mark received his accounting degree with high distinction at the University of
Illinois, his law degree at the University of Minnesota and a Masters of Law in
Taxation degree at Georgetown University Law Center. He also is a Certified
Financial Planner®. Mark teaches for leading CPA firms nationwide and for the
Minnesota Society of CPAs, where he is a recipient of the R. Glen Berryman Award
for excellence in teaching.