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Helga A. Zauner, CFE, MBA

Helga Zauner is a Senior Associate in the Houston office. She brings 14 years of unique experience to HSSK in Financial Analysis, Budgeting, Reporting and Cash Flow Analysis and Forecasting. She specializes in Forecasting Techniques, Time Series Analysis and Econometrics and has extensive experience in Quantitative and Data Analysis. Helga's background includes serving as a Financial Advisor in banking and corporate credit and as a partner and Financial Manager in the construction and automobile dealership businesses, where she handled treasury, accounting, and other financial duties. Helga is a Certified Fraud Examiner. She also serves as Treasurer for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Houston Chapter (ACFE).

Helga holds American and Mexican dual citizenship and is bilingual in English and Spanish, as well as conversational in French. She was an Associate Professor for four years at Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Gto. where she taught courses in Finance, Econometrics and Statistics, and did Applied Research in: Financial Analysis, Investments, Project Analysis, Time Series, Forecasting and Econometrics. Helga has also consulted for the State of Guanajuato in the areas of Econometrics and Financial Analysis. Her education includes:

Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas, Guanajuato, Gto. Ph.D, Statistics, 2004
PhD Candidate

• Focus on Econometrics and Time Series
• Research on different methods for the Forecasting of Financial Time Series

M.B.A., Finance, Boston College Carroll Graduate School of Management, Boston, MA, 1993

• Advanced courses in Corporate Finance, Investments and Derivatives

BS, Mathematics, Minor: Computer Science, Facultad de Matematicas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Gto., 1991

• Several programming projects for the Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas
• Interned at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center as a programmer at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)