Abhishek is a member of the Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) Tax Technology and Transformation (TTT) practice. He has over 15 years of direct tax technical experience along with a focus on optimization of tax compliance and provision systems.

Abhishek focuses on direct tax process improvements, tax function assessments, tax system implementation & optimization, and data transformation & analytics projects.

Abhishek also serves as a Corptax subject matter expert within EY where he is focused on enablement of integration between EY’s tax technology solutions and Corptax. He uses his extensive knowledge of Corptax tools (Corptax office, Corptax ODBC, and Data Exchange) along with data transformation knowledge to design and deploy highly advanced and custom solutions for EY’s multinational clients.

Abhishek received his Bachelors in Accounting from Osmania University, India and is a CSC Corptax Certified Professional in Provision.

Alaina is a key member of the Ernst & Young LLP US-East Region Tax Technology and Transformation (TTT) practice. She has 20+ years of direct tax technical and tax technology experience

Alaina focuses on direct tax and is skilled in tax function assessments, tax operating model design, global tax provision and compliance process redesign and system implementations. Most recently, she has focused on assisting clients with large finance transformations, merger integrations and tax sensitization of ERPs.

Alaina was the Global Tax Process Lead for two large-scale finance transformations while in industry and has extensive experience with finance transformation efforts including tax sensitizing SAP as well as setting up of direct and indirect tax centers of excellence in the U.S. and abroad.

Alaina received her BBA in Accounting and Masters in Taxation from Hofstra University, is a certified public accountant licensed in New York, and a member of the AICPA.

Anna is currently a Product Manager for the Software Integrations team at Bloomberg Tax, where she uses her background in data analytics, product management and marketing to help drive the team vision of delivering automation and integration capabilities to Bloomberg Tax customers. She is passionate about the positive impact her work has on customers, and brings new ideas to the table to help them work smarter, not harder.

Ben has more than 15 years of accounting and tax experience, including both public accounting and private industry experience. His background includes global income tax accounting, SEC reporting, sales and use tax, property tax, internal controls, and compliance reporting responsibilities. His focus over the past five years has been dedicated to process optimization, automation, maximizing the latest tax technology tools to effectively manage tax provision and compliance processes.

BDO Tax Automation & Innovation provides tax process improvement, automation and software optimization services for BDO clients. Ben primarily functions as solution architect and project manager for tax data migration and tax process automation projects leveraging tools such as Alteryx, Power Query, Power Pivot, Power BI, and UiPath. His broad technical knowledge and technology experience has led BDO to complete successful tax process automation projects and tax data transformation engagements.

Ben is certified in Corptax (Provision), Alteryx, and UiPath​.

Brian Smith is a Senior Manager with KPMG Ignition – Systems Integration. His team helps clients implement, integrate and optimize their use of  Corptax and enabling technologies to compliment the application. Brian worked in industry for a major retailer in Dallas before entering the Public consulting world including working for Corptax for 11 years. He joined  KPMG in 2016.

Calvin Boyland is a Tax Senior Manager in the Tax Technology Consulting (TTC) practice of Deloitte Tax LLP, based in McLean VA, specializing in tax systems and tax department process enhancement. Calvin brings over 15 years of tax experience working with multi-national corporations in areas of US tax compliance, tax provision and planning.

Throughout his career, Calvin has worked with large corporate tax departments in planning, implementing and executing federal, state and international reporting functions from both a tax technical and technology perspective, leveraging a variety of tax software packages to achieve department goals of preparation, reporting, data collection and process improvement.

Candice Ditto is a Senior Manager in the Tax Technology Consulting (TTC) practice with a focus on tax provision process improvement projects. She has led multiple provision implementations in Corptax with a passion for data automation. Overall, Candice enjoys taking a broad look at the full tax lifecycle to find efficiencies across the tax department.

Candice has a Bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University, and a Masters in Professional Accounting degree from The University of Texas at Austin. She is a licensed CPA in Texas and Washington.

Charlotte is a partner in Deloitte Tax LLP’s Tax Technology Consulting (TTC) service line. She serves as the West Region Marketplace Leader for TTC as well as the Corptax market offering leader for Deloitte. As a technical and implementation specialist, she has served corporate tax departments of all sizes across multiple industries in the areas of accounting for income taxes, tax process improvements and, tax department automation utilizing software. Charlotte has managed large software implementations as well as large co-sourcing engagements. She specializes in tax technology, process efficiency, and data gathering.

Charlotte joined the TTC service line more than twelve years ago after spending seven years in the federal corporate tax group. She has worked in all areas of federal taxation including corporate tax planning, tax accounting, and compliance. Charlotte has extensive experience in internal control evaluation and accounting for income taxes.

Charlotte has a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Baylor University and a Masters of Accountancy from the University of Mississippi. She is a Certified Public Accountant in Texas and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Cristin has more than 20 years of domestic and international tax accounting, compliance, process improvement and tax reporting technology implementation experience. Her experience includes working in public accounting, industry, and for two leading tax software companies. ​Cristin has gained Certification in Corptax® Provision and the ONESOURCE Tax Provision applications.

Her experience includes managing projects with stakeholders across tax, finance, compliance, regulatory and information technology with a substantial focus on multi-state and multi-national companies. Cristin has worked with clients to re-engineer and improve their tax functions, including tax accounting and compliance processes, assess their current tax operating environment, remediate internal control deficiencies, tax sensitize financial systems, and evaluate and implement tax technology tools. Her experience in accounting for income tax reporting, includes statutory reporting for insurance, US GAAP and IFRS reporting.

BDO Tax Automation & Innovation provides tax process improvement, automation and software optimization services for BDO clients. Cristin’s tax technical knowledge and broad experience solving tax process challenges, coupled with her knowledge of various technologies, has led to highly successful engagement results.

Dan is a data & analytics specialist and computer programmer with 15+ years of industry experience in selling, planning, developing, implementing, and supporting solutions. Dan leads advanced Alteryx development for key KPMG clients, as well as Alteryx related initiatives for the KPMG tax practice.

David is currently the Strategic Partnerships Leader at Bloomberg Industry Group where he devises and executes partner channel strategy. Prior to joining Bloomberg, David served as CEO of Tax Prodigy, a tax software company acquired by Bloomberg Industry Group in 2021. David’s leadership experience includes as a Tax Management Consulting Partner, Chief Tax Technology Strategist, and Tax Technology Innovation Leader in the Big 4 Firms. He has helped corporate tax functions, firm tax practices, and tax software vendors optimize and focus their tax technology investments.

David is a managing director in KPMG’s New York Value Chain Management and International Tax Services practice. He has more than 15 years of experience in tax planning and structuring of transactions for public and privately held clients. His experience spans across a broad range of industries from life sciences to the digital economy, and has led engagements covering a variety of issues from tax controversy and mergers and acquisitions to supply chain management and transfer pricing. Most recently, as part of WNT (Washington National Tax), David led the tax technical development and global marketing of KPMG Global firm-wide tax models on BEPS 2.0, ESG benchmarking, and global mobility. David is part of KPMG Global’s BEPS 2.0 task force.

Lauren is a Tax Manager in the National Tax Technology Consulting practice within Deloitte. Currently based out of Houston, she has over five years of professional experience serving clients in both provision and compliance.

Her experience has provided her the unique opportunity to combine her technical expertise with expertise in tax technology platforms by implementing technology solutions to make tax processes more accurate and efficient. She is particularly experienced with Corptax and has experience with Alteryx.

Lauren received both her B.S. in Accounting and Master of Accounting with an emphasis in Tax from Brigham Young University and is a licensed CPA in the state of Texas.

Michael is a Senior Manager with KPMG’s Ignition – Systems Integration Practice. At KPMG he has over 15 years of tax experience with a focus on tax technologies, support, implementation, and best practices. Michael briefly served as Tax Technology lead at a large multinational company, providing support and implementing best practices at that company. Michael is a Corptax certified professional with the U.S and International Compliance product along with experience in the various Corptax products; Corptax Provision, State by State Provision, Corptax Office, State Planner, Workflow, and Calendar.

Mike has more than 14 years of experience as a tax professional in both public accounting and industry. His experience includes ASC 740 tax reporting, federal compliance, and multi-state direct & indirect taxation for large multi-national corporations. While in industry he focused on implementing process improvements, including trial balance automation & sensitization, state apportionment automation, sales tax dashboarding, and fixed asset process optimization to name a few.

Patricia Wilson is a Managing Director with KPMG Ignition – Systems Integration, specializing in helping clients implement, integrate and optimize their utilization of Corptax within their Tax Technology Ecosystem. She is a former head of tax of a $5.2B multi-national company, where she licensed and implemented Corptax for compliance and provision prior to 2000. Patricia joined KPMG-Ignition in Spring 2011.

Ryan Sheehan is a Senior Product Lead for Bloomberg Tax. He is responsible for Bloomberg Tax’s corporate tax products, including Fixed Assets. Prior to Bloomberg Tax, Ryan was a CPA at KPMG’s Washington D.C. Metro office in the Business Tax Services practice.

Shawnn has more than 13 years of experience in tax and accounting, including domestic and international experience in public accounting and private industry.  His experience also includes tax provision audit and preparation, tax compliance, tax technology implementation, and tax process improvements serving multi-national organizations.

BDO Tax Automation & Innovation involves a review of all aspects of the tax function: Process, Data, Software & Workforce. Shawnn’s tax technical knowledge and broad experience solving tax process challenges, coupled with his knowledge of various technologies, has led to highly successful engagement results.

Spencer has seven years of experience in Tax Technology and Tax Accounting and Compliance working in both private industry and public accounting.

With a background in State and Local Tax, Spencer has spent the bulk of his career working with large amounts of data. His focus has been on creating transparent, repeatable processes to ease the strain of data wrangling on the tax department. He has led the build and implementation of more than 50 Alteryx workflows, primarily within the SALT capability. Recently, he has worked on Master Data Management Solutions for the enterprise.

BDO Tax Automation & Innovation involves a review of all aspects of the tax function: Process, Data, Software & Workforce. Spencer’s tax technical knowledge and broad experience solving tax process challenges, coupled with his knowledge of various technologies, has led to highly successful engagement results.

Tong Yi is a Tax Managing Director and a CPA who has been with Deloitte for over 14 years. She’s based in Dallas, Texas. As part of Deloitte’s Tax Technology Consulting (TTC) practice, she focuses on assessing clients’ tax compliance and provision processes and technology to develop recommendations for process improvements and/or technology solutions.

Tong had led the overall delivery of services for many tax systems implementation and process enhancement engagements for large multi-national companies. Her experience includes working with compliance, provision, and technology to develop and deploy a new process to reduce manual efforts and increase efficiency and accuracy.

Tyler has four years of experience in Tax Technology and Tax Accounting and Compliance working in both private industry and public accounting.

With a background in Tax Accounting and Tax Compliance for large multi-national corporations, Tyler has spent the bulk of his career working with large amounts of data. His focus has been on creating transparent, repeatable processes to ease the strain of data wrangling on the tax department. He has led the build and implementation of dozens of Alteryx workflows, primarily within the tax accounting and international tax compliance capabilities.

BDO Tax Automation & Innovation involves a review of all aspects of the tax function: Process, Data, Software & Workforce. Tyler’s tax technical knowledge and broad experience solving tax process challenges, coupled with his knowledge of various technologies, has led to highly successful engagement results.