Marian has 19 years of public finance experience. Since joining KNN Public Finance in 1994, she has structured a number of issues for various clients, notably the City of Oakland and its Redevelopment Agency, the Redevelopment Agency of Alameda County, the City of Fresno, the City of Santa Barbara and its Redevelopment Agency, the City of Ridgecrest and its Redevelopment Agency, and the City of Gridley and its Redevelopment Agency. Her other clients include the East Bay Regional Park District, East Bay Municipal Utility District, and Kern County Water District.

Marian was a key contributor to KNN's work as lead financial advisor to the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) on a series of bond issues that combined $550 million in new money and the current and advance refunding of three water revenue and two sewer revenue bonds totaling over $450 million in 2007. She is a survivor of the 2008 credit crisis which resulted in the need to refund nearly $1 billion of EBMUD's variable rate debt with new liquidity providers as well as the replacement of Lehman Brothers shortly thereafter as a counter-party on two of the District’s swaps. Other 2008 transactions included a Gridley tax allocation bond, general obligation refunding bonds for the East Bay Regional Park District, several transactions with the City of Fresno, and Kern County Water Agency Certificates of Participation.

Marian has played an integral role in the vast majority of lease, enterprise revenue, and redevelopment financing the firm has worked on during the last 15 years. She has an extensive understanding of redevelopment law and practice as a result of her experience at Alameda County. Marian applies her tremendous diligence to reviewing redevelopment financing to ensure the consistency of the transaction with the underlying project area plan, the integrity of the fiscal consultant report, and the quality of legal and disclosure documentation.

Prior to joining KNN, Marian spent nine years with Alameda County working in the areas of debt financing, property development, redevelopment, risk management, and departmental, capital project, and internal service fund budgeting.

Marian earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.