Alyssa M. Fudala

Alyssa is a Director at SD Capital and responsible for leading deal execution. She works closely with clients and management teams to understand their operations, strategy, and financials. She has more than 10 years of investment banking experience and joined Schneider Downs in 2016. During her time at Schneider Downs, Alyssa has worked on many sell-side transactions across industries, including consumer, business services, industrial services, energy and infrastructure services, distribution, and manufacturing. Alyssa holds her Series 63 and Series 79 Securities Licenses.

Prior to joining Schneider Downs, Alyssa held corporate finance and investment banking positions in the energy investing business of GE Capital, iStar, and Highmark Health.

Education

B.S.—Finance, Pennsylvania State University

Professional and Community Involvement

Member—Association of Corporate Growth

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Do you have a hobby/personal passion? 
Spending time with my family and chasing after my young daughter.

What was the best advice you’ve ever received? 
The advice to pass on my first full-time job offer (from my manager!) and pursue more exciting opportunities. My career and life would have taken a much different path if I took the safe route and accepted the job.

People would be surprised to know that I…
met my husband on the city bus during our commute from the Strip District to downtown Pittsburgh.

What is the best or most interesting thing about your career?
It’s very rewarding to achieve successful outcomes for our clients.

Do you have a “motto”? (spoken or unspoken)
Always do the right thing.

Alyssa Fudala

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Big Problem: A Global Company Needing Better Internal Controls.


Big Thinking: A Network Of Professionals To Implement Best Practices.

Shareholder JIM YARD is Schneider Downs’ practice leader for our Risk Advisory Services Department. Jim specializes in providing risk management, internal audit, and internal control consulting services.
 One of our clients was a large consumer markets company with a global footprint. We learned that the company wanted to improve overall corporate governance and internal controls. Jim’s team was called upon to help with an evaluation since leadership at the company realized the need for a firm with international experience in multiple countries and languages. With the assistance of country-specific resources through Prime Global - one of the largest associations of independent public accounting firms in the world - and a consistent core team based in Pittsburgh, we have been able to provide the expertise necessary to develop and assist the company in building and establishing a global internal audit function, and bringing best practices across their global operations and core processes. “By accessing industry expertise, assessing risk and pulling in subject matter and international specialists, we were able to direct the company’s plans to implement best practices, mitigate risks, standardize their processes and create efficiencies throughout its operations and business units,” Jim said. “The client has recognized the success of this partnership and has gone on to award us other projects including on-going international location reviews, various operational and process reviews, systems implementation/migration, and fraud investigations.” Schneider Downs provides Big Thinking and Personal focus in delivering a variety of services for large and small businesses, both publicly and privately held, as well as nonprofit organizations, government entities and more. Through our commitment to thought leadership and knowledge management, we deliver the solutions our clients need with a personal commitment to service.

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