Mark Steele is the senior director of financial consulting and forensic accounting in Alston Financial Consulting Services. Mark provides accounting and finance advisory support services to the firm’s attorneys, such as analysis related to GAAP accounting, business valuations, forensic accounting, M&A due diligence, and data analysis. Mark is regularly a part of Alston & Bird teams that represent clients in the defense of securities class action suits, as well as boards of public companies in special investigations.
Before joining Alston & Bird, Mark served as CFO and senior vice president, finance and treasury, for several private and public companies where he was responsible for, among other things, managing accounting, treasury, credit, and capital market functions; risk management; domestic and international tax planning; cash management; investor relations; and regulatory reporting.
Mark received a master of accountancy in 1982 from Georgia State University and a B.S. in chemistry in 1979 from Emory University.