Larry Braden, MBA, CPA – is currently pursuing his certification in Artificial/Advanced Intelligence pending completion in August 2026. He was recently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Top Drawer Merch, which provides best of class merchandise solutions and brand management services for major artists, athletes, and festivals. From February 2020 to May 2023, he served as Chief Financial Officer at S2A Modular, which is focused on net positive energy efficiency and sustainable housing. Larry is an accomplished finance and business executive with more than 35 years diverse experience, earned his Big-4 CPA with Deloitte & Touche; performed litigation, valuation and expert witness consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers and independently; and earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate with BearingPoint’s World-Class Finance practice. A sample of his client experience ranges from advising numerous technology start-ups to leading major international companies including Microsoft, T-Mobile, Fisher Communications, PIMCO Investments, SilverCreek Capital, Corbis, Nordstrom, among others. Larry founded Washington Brokers in 2009 and quickly became one of the largest business brokers in the state when he acquired the former Seattle VR Business Broker team in 2010, which had sold more than 1,000 businesses over the last 30 years. He merged Washington Brokers into Keller Williams Greater Seattle to help create a national business sales team.

Previously, Larry worked in various Audit and Controller positions of increasing responsibility for Paramount Pictures, Time Warner, Universal Music Groups’ eLabs, and Paul Allen’s Investment Company at Vulcan. At Universal, he contributed in due diligence and finance integration of many investments and acquisitions including MP3.com, Emusic.com, Napster, GetMusic, among others. In addition to full-scope direct controller experience at Vulcan and Universal Music Group, Larry has significant experience in start-ups, due diligence, acquisitions, public accounting, internal and operational audits, Sarbanes-Oxley, ERISA compliance, expert witness work in litigation and valuation including estates and probate, cash flow analysis, commercial real estate sales and leasing, selling businesses off market, and solving complex financial problems often with international companies in either start-up mode, growth or financial distress.

Larry earned his BS in Accounting from the University of Southern California and MBA in Marketing & Strategy from the Anderson School at UCLA, and is a designated real estate broker of record in both CA and WA, as well as PMP and SOX Certifications. He is also a licensed CPA in California.