Antonella Puca, CPA/ABV, CFA

Antonella Puca, CPA/ABV, CFA

Partner with BlueVal in New York.

Managing Partner of BlueVal in New York.  Antonella specializes in the business valuation portfolio valuation and the valuation of digital assets for private equity and venture capital funds for financial and tax reporting, M&A transactions, buy-sell agreements, gift/estate planning, and litigation purposes. Prior to joining BlueVal, Antonella held positions at various valuation advisory firms, KPMG & EY in San Francisco and in New York. Antonella is the author of Early Stage Valuation (Wiley: 2020) and a frequent speaker on the valuation of VC- and PE-backed companies. She is qualified as an expert witness in the State of California.

Antonella is a member of the CFA Institute and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). She holds the CFA charter and is licensed as a CPA in California and in New York. She served as a member of Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)’s research committee, a director and treasurer of the Board of the CFA Society of New York, as a judge on the CFA Institute Research challenge, and as a director and consultant on industry standards, practice analysis and curriculum review at CFA Institute.

Antonella is currently serving on the Forensics and Valuation Services Executive Committee of the AICPA and as a consultant on the CFA exam development team. She received the 2021 Business Valuation Volunteer of the Year Award of the AICPA and is listed in Forbes 2025 America’s Top CPAs for Valuation and Forbes 2026 America’s Best-in-State CPAs for New York State. She is a founding member of the Certified Digital Asset Valuation Credential Community of EACVA. Antonella earned a degree in Economics, with honors, from the University Federico II of Naples, Italy and a Master in Law Studies in Taxation from NYU School of Law. She served as a research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.