Kelly currently serves as Sales & Use Tax Consultant for Benchmark. Throughout her 23-year career as a sales and use tax specialist, she has been a valuable asset to companies both large and small, representing a wide range of industries. Kelly spent the first 10 years of her career as an agent for the State of Ohio, where she managed compliance audits for sales and use and franchise tax. Since then she served as Tax Compliance Manager for OPERS – a $54 billion dollar retirement plan system. Throughout her tenure, she received recognition for more than $750,000 in tax savings.

In 2012, Kelly moved to Dallas, TX, where she started her own consulting firm, garnering sales and use tax experience in 46 states. She completed a sales and use tax compliance project for 175 jurisdictions, filing more than $1,090,000 in delinquent sales tax liability. She completed another sales and use tax audit for a client, saving them $489,000 in liability. Since 2015 she has successfully achieved nearly $500,000 in penalties waived.

Kelly received her Bachelor of Science in accounting from Franklin University in Columbus, Ohio. She also received her Tax Compliance Certificate for state and local tax from Columbus State Community College. Kelly was a Division 1 college athlete, playing basketball for the Xavier Musketeers. She currently resides in Dallas with her husband, while her son attends UCLA.