JESSICA LANDAY

Jessica specializes in business valuation, forensic accounting, and financial analyses for litigation support with an emphasis on marital dissolution and family law matters. Her experience encompasses business valuation, income analysis for support purposes, lifestyle/spending analysis, pension valuation, stock option/RSU valuation, separate property analysis and tracing. She also has experience in litigation matters involving damages claims, as well as business valuation for non-litigation matters, including estate and gift tax reporting, shareholder buy-in/buy-out, and business transactions. She has been qualified as an expert witness in multiple jurisdictions in Colorado.

Jessica has been a part of the Harper Hofer team since 2017. Prior to joining HHA, she worked with similar CPA firms and boutique valuation firms in the Denver area and New Jersey, where she started her career in business valuation in 2004. 

In addition to her work at HHA, Jessica is actively involved in the business valuation community. She currently serves on the Business Valuation Committee and Forensic and Valuation Services Conference Planning Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). She is also involved in the National Association of Valuators and Analysts (NACVA), for which she currently serves as a Mentor in the Mentor Support Group. She previously served on NACVA’s Valuation Credentialing Board from 2019 to 2022 and she served on the planning committee for the 2024 Business Valuation and Financial Litigation Super Conference. Jessica has served on the CO/WY State Chapter of NACVA since 2018, first as Secretary and currently as Marketing Director.  She was awarded the “Outstanding Member” award by NACVA in 2022 and was named to NACVA’s 40 under Forty in 2017. She is also a member of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA).

Jessica has presented at events sponsored by various organizations in Colorado on topics related to business valuation and financial issues in family law matters. She has also presented at national conferences sponsored by the AICPA and the ASA on business valuation topics.

Outside of work, she can be found cheering for her sons at their hockey and soccer games and spending time with her family. When she has free time, she likes to spend it traveling, listening to live music, enjoying good food, reading, and spending time with family and friends. Being somewhere with an ocean is always a plus!