ABOUT US

Tracy Tripp – CPA

Tracy specializes in individual, corporate and partnership tax planning and compliance.
Tracy got her Masters in Taxation (MST) from San Jose State in 2008 and her CPA license in 2009 while working for PwC. At PwC San Jose she was part of the core tax, venture capital and specialty tax group. 

Since leaving PwC, Tracy has been a partner at Blum & Tripp. Blum & Tripp was cofounded by her father and Eric Blum. She inherited her father’s client list and has worked to grow it. As a partner, she was focused on building out the practice and implementing changes to help modernize the firm. 

After over 40 years, Blum & Tripp ceased professional operations on December 31, 2020. Tripp & Associates is the legacy firm founded by Tracy to continue tax compliance operations. Still in the prime of her career, Tracy hopes that Tripp & Associates will be as successful as Blum & Tripp was for her father. 

For fun, Tracy loves to travel and spend time with her family and friends. She became the proud mother to a wonderful baby boy in 2018. 


John Tripp – CPA

A founding partner of Blum & Tripp with over 40 years of experience in accounting, John has traditionally divided his time between consulting with some of the Bay Area’s top technology companies, and providing tax planning & preparation services to individual, partnership and trust clients. With the termination of Blum & Tripp as a professional agency, John is continuing to work in an advisory role, though with reduced hours. 

John started his career with Coopers & Lybrand and worked in the corporate sector at Memorex before co-founding Blum & Tripp.

With his reduced hours, John is hoping to spend his time traveling the world and causing trouble with his two adorable grandsons. 


Natalie Whipple – CPA

Natalie received her bachelor's in Accounting from San Francisco State University.

Prior to joining Tripp & Associates, Natalie worked for 6 years at Novogradac & Company, LLP, a national certified public accounting and consulting firm serving clients in a broad range of industries with a major emphasis in the real estate sector and in the affordable housing, community development and renewable energy fields.

Natalie's experience at Novogradac includes performing and managing financial statement audits and tax preparation for clients in the low-income housing tax credit industry, including engagements subject to the governmental audit requirements of HUD. She also has experience performing and managing financial statement audits and tax preparation for not for profit entities and financial statement audits of renewable energy developments.

Feroz Abbassi – CPA Candidate

Feroz graduated in 2020 from Menlo College with dual majors in Finance and Accounting. He worked for Blum & Tripp as an intern in 2019 & 2020 and has now been hired on as an associate. 


Amanda Warner – Enrolled Agent

Amanda was with Blum & Tripp for over 25 years. Amanda serves as the Quickbooks ProAdvisor for Tripp & Associates.