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Also while at Hiratsuka & Schmitt Larry has had the opportunity to manage or participate on several “for profit” private company audits involved in the investment in and operation of multi-state executive Jet Centers, as well as for a large foreign money transmitter with annual transactions in excess of $300MM with over 1,000 locations in 21 states.

Several hours after attending his graduation ceremony at San Diego State University in May of 1981, Larry drove from San Diego, California to Denver, Colorado to begin a 30-year odyssey as an accounting professional. Starting out as an Auditor with Deloitte (formally Deloitte, Haskins & Sells), Larry gained experience primarily in the Oil & Gas and extractive industries. Larry left Deloitte to assume the position of Regional Controller for a large national publically traded home building company, which began his lifelong interest in the residential real estate and construction industry.

Larry assumed several different positions within the parent organization of that home builder, including directing the international component of their currency and commodity trading operations in Switzerland. As the Chief Financial Officer, he assisted in the construction and financing of a 5-star resort property and an executive business hotel property. Following a brief return to Litigation Consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers (formally Coopers & Lybrand), Larry started a network of multi-modality outpatient medical facilities that were eventually sold to a national operator. Larry then obtained his General Contracting license and started a small, successful, fully integrated in-fill housing company in Arizona.

In response to the increasingly unstable and correcting housing industry, Larry returned to Colorado and accepted his current position with Hiratsuka & Schmitt. Providing forensic accounting, fraud investigation, and expert witness services has proved to be an extremely interesting, satisfying, and effective use of Larry’s prior “hands-on” experience combining the lifelong financial knowledge he has gained in his accounting career and the substantial legal experience he has obtained in the area of dispute resolution.