My name is Maria Gordon, and I am a tax senior here at Cray Kaiser. I just finished my fifth tax season at
Cray Kaiser. One of our principles Karen, she’s the head of tax, she personally is my mentor in our mentor
program, but even beyond that, she is such a wealth of tax knowledge that I know if there’s ever a topic,
I’m hitting a dead end on, I can go to Karen and, she’s like, “well, have you looked at this?”. You kind of
thump yourself on the head like, “oh yeah, I didn’t even think about that”. I think having someone like
Karen with all of her, not just knowledge but experience, she just has seen so much over the years with
all her clients that it is such a benefit to me. I feel like I’m becoming a person like her. I’m becoming more
experienced and more knowledgeable about a wider range of tax issues, and that makes me more
helpful to my clients.

My name is Rolake Adedara. I’m an assurance manager here at CK. I’ve been with Cray Kaiser since
generally of 2021, so about six months now. If I may just speak to the mentoring process here, really,
really huge thing here at Cray Kaiser. Somebody said that you are not a success until you have a success.
I think that the mentoring program here at Cray Kaiser really points to the fact that the leadership is
interested in our career. They are interested in our growth, they are interested in our learning and also
becoming whatever our goals are here at CK and in our career.