40 under 40 – 2017 winners

Maria Sentic

Maria Sentic
Born and Raised in Chicago, Illinois.

Partner in Chicago Accounting Firm

Graduate of Northwestern University. Maria is a Certified Public Accountant, and the CEO and Founder of AccountingLeap LLC, a technology platform providing outsourced accounting and finance help, business process automation, and strategic consulting. She was accepted into the second cohort of the WiSTEM (Women in STEM) accelerator at 1871, Chicago’s top technology incubator. In 2013, Maria had co-founded Cloudsourced Accounting, a successful online accounting and cloud integration firm. After only six months her company was nominated for Partner of the Year at the Xero accounting conference. In 2015, Cloudsourced Accounting was acquired by a large CPA firm.

Maria writes a blog about accounting, technology, and business topics Maria Sentic.com and was recently featured in Women in Adria online magazine.

Maria is a member of the Illinois CPA Society. Maria is the Treasurer of the Association of Croatian American Professionals (ACAP) and one of the founding members and currently President of the Chicago Chapter of ACAP. She is on the organizing committee for the 2nd annual conference of ACAP to be held in Chicago on May 12, 2017.

Maria is active member in the Croatian American community and has been a parishioner of St. Jerome’s Croatian Catholic Church in Chicago her whole life. She is a member of the humanitarian organization Croatian Woman Branch #1 in Chicago. Family from Ljubuski and Siroki Brijeg, Herzegovina.

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