Jeff Rossi is an Assurance partner in the Firm’s Hartford, Connecticut office and serves as the New England Consumer & Industrial Products leader. He has nearly 30 years of experience providing audit and assurance services to tier one aerospace / defense, automotive, food manufacturing, sanitation / recycling, construction, and logistics companies.
Jeff has worked with privately owned and private equity-owned companies and is focused on EBITDA enhancement and value creation. He has worked with several clients as lead advisor on mergers and acquisitions as well as divestitures.
Before joining Marcum in 2022, Jeff served as an office managing partner, executive board member and the manufacturing industry co-leader for a large national accounting and advisory firm in Connecticut, providing assurances services to a variety of clients.
In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant, Jeff also holds the credentials of Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Jeff has extensive experience in forensic accounting, internal controls and fraud prevention. Jeff also passed the Certified Fraud Deterrence Analyst exam in 2005 and earned the Certified Valuation Analyst credential in 2006.
He was recognized in the Hartford Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in 2007 and received the Fairfield/Westchester Business Journal’s Most Trusted Advisor award in 2017.
Dana R. Bucin is a partner and chair of Murtha Cullina's Immigration practice.
She represents businesses and individual clients on a wide range of immigration matters, including green card applications, work visas, student visas, foreign investor visas, asylum, naturalization, religious work visas, as well as various other employment and family-based immigration matters.
As an immigration attorney with a business/corporate legal background, Dana's experience includes counseling foreign investors and entrepreneurs on setting up businesses in the U.S. or investing in existing U.S. ventures and obtaining a visa or green card based on such investment or entrepreneurship pursuant to the E-2, L-1 “new office”, H-1B “entrepreneur” and EB-5 visa options.
Dana regularly provides multilingual legal representation in English, Spanish, French and Romanian. She also has a basic knowledge of Italian, German, Hungarian and Latin. She is often quoted as an expert by publications such as Bloomberg/BusinessWeek and the Hartford Business Journal on immigration law topics.
Dana serves as Murtha Cullina's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee chair, where she is responsible for the oversight of the firm's diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives, ensuring that the firm’s core principles of inclusiveness and diversity are reflected across its internal and external policies, work and practices.
In addition, Dana handles a variety of cases to assist immigrants and refugees with humanitarian legal needs. Examples of humanitarian cases she assisted with include:
Melissa Grosso is the Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Commercial Service office in Middletown, Connecticut. In this capacity, Melissa leads the office’s efforts to assist Connecticut firms develop effective export strategies for entry into new markets. During her time at Commerce, Melissa has led numerous trade missions of US companies to international markets and has been the operational point person for large international trade summits in Connecticut. She has worked with clients from a variety of industry sectors, with a particular area of expertise in the aerospace/defense, healthcare technologies, and energy sectors. From 2012-2015, Melissa served as the Global Aerospace and Defense Team Leader for the US Commercial Service. In this role, Melissa coordinated efforts amongst the 200+ aerospace and defense specialists worldwide to support the US aerospace industry.