Aaron B. Bairani is a Tax Senior Manager in the Tax Management Consulting (TMC) Group of Deloitte Tax LLP based in Chicago, Illinois. He has numerous years of experience in private industry and public accounting, including over a decade working with tax technology enhancements, customizations and implementations around the provision and compliance process. Aaron has worked with corporate tax departments and accounting personnel across several different industries. As a member of the TMC practice, he focuses on tax process transformations, managing tax provision and compliance redesign engagements and devising solutions for tax planning, data collection and managerial reporting.

Adam Duale is an Experienced Manager within the Tax Function Optimization (TFO) practice, and is based in the Cleveland office of Grant Thornton.  Adam has more than 15 years of experience in partnership and corporate taxation.  His expertise is in tax system implementations and process improvements, including knowledge of all major tax compliance, provision, and data analytic software packages. In his role at the firm, Adam works with clients on all aspects of tax management services, from software evaluation and selection to implementation, training and robotics, helping ensure that each implementation meets client expectations for process improvement.

Recently Adam assisted an Insurance company to transform, automate and integrate their tax provision and compliance processes using tax software, robotic process automation, Oracle Cloud ERP system, and data analytical tools.

Amit is a Managing Director in KPMG’s New York Ignition office. He has 17+ years’ experience delivering technology driven tax transformations. Amit focuses on solutions in areas of tax data analytics, intelligent automation and electronic collaboration. Amit is delivering innovations with the tax functions. Amit is responsible for assisting in technical aspects of projects including solution design, development, infrastructure, governance models, management and migration. He has architected solutions that integrate multiple tax technologies with company technologies to optimize efficiencies for an effective tax function. He leads teams with experience in software development and tax domain.

Ania Wojtowicz is a Manager within the Tax Function Optimization (TFO) practice, and is based in the Chicago office of Grant Thornton. Ania has more than 6 years of experience in corporate taxation. Her expertise is in tax system implementations and process improvements, including knowledge of all major tax compliance, provision, and data analytic software packages. In her role at the firm, Ania works with clients on all aspects of tax management services, from software evaluation and selection to implementation, training and robotics, helping ensure that each implementation meets client expectations for process improvement.

In addition, Ania handles a broad range of federal tax matters including corporate tax returns, ASC 740 preparation and review, internal controls testing and documentation. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Ania interned with Health Care Service Corporation in their corporate tax department assisting with compliance and provisions.

Beth Putnam is a Tax Senior in the Tax Management Consulting (TMC) Group of Deloitte Tax LLP based in Phoenix, Arizona. She has over 2 years of experience in tax technology enhancement, customization and implementation around the provision and compliance process. Beth received her undergraduate degree in Information Systems and brings a unique perspective to tax technology implementations. While serving in TMC, Beth has had the opportunity to work with corporate compliance and provision solutions and implement them on a variety of clients.

Candace Minette is a Tax Manager in the Tax Management Consulting (TMC) Group of Deloitte Tax LLP based in Detroit, Michigan.  She has numerous years of experience in private industry and public accounting managing projects that include technology enhancements, as well as, customizations and implementations around the provision and compliance process.  Candace has worked with corporate tax departments and accounting personnel across several different industries.  As a member of the TMC practice, she focuses on tax process transformations, managing tax provision and compliance redesign engagements and devising solutions for tax planning, data collection and managerial reporting.

Previously Jessica has worked at Oracle Corporation and CSC Corptax. While at Corptax, Jessica worked on a broad spectrum of engagements, from Compliance to e-File.  Jessica graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2005.

Chris is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Tax Transformation practice. He has more than a decade of experience in providing tax process and technology improvement services, as well as tax planning and compliance services, to public and privately held clients. Chris is responsible for assisting a broad range of multinational clients with their tax project management, technology, and process improvement initiatives.

Cristin Boynton is a Senior Manager with Deloitte Tax LLP’s Tax Management Consulting (“TMC”) practice. Cristin has over 20 years of tax experience both in industry and Big 4 public accounting. Her project experience includes managing projects with stakeholders across tax, finance, compliance, regulatory and information technology. She 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. Cristin has experience in accounting for income tax reporting, including statutory reporting for insurance, US GAAP and IFRS reporting.

Cristin previously worked for Longview and Corptax as a member of their professional services teams working on implementations of tax compliance and reporting software products. Cristin is a Corptax certified professional in Provision and a specialist in federal and state provision. She is also experienced at implementing the Corptax Compliance module for many large multinational organizations, and a state compliance specialist. Cristin’s experience in the corporate sector includes working in the tax accounting and tax compliance groups for two multibillion dollar global corporations.

Donna is a partner in EY’s International Tax Quantitative Services (ITqS) National Practice with over 25 years of experience providing international consulting and quantitative services to US multinational companies.   Donna assists clients with large scale quantitative projects and has taken a pivotal role in EY’s US tax reform modeling initiative, including consulting on the computational aspects of the new transition tax, GILTI, FDII, Sec 163(j) and BEAT provisions.  In addition, Donna has extensive experience assisting clients with E&P and basis studies, Subpart F and foreign tax credit computations, repatriation modeling, overall foreign loss (OFL) calculations and Section 861 expense apportionment.

Donna helps lead EYs international tax compliance practice by helping companies streamline and standardize their international reporting processes, including utilizing tax processes and technology to improve efficiency in the foreign reporting process. Donna leads many of EY’s largest US multinational’s international compliance outsourcing projects and plays a significant role in developing the international specifications for EY’s standard compliance platform, EYTaxSpace.   She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, School of Business Administration, and a certified public accountant in New York and Michigan.

Heidy is a manager with EY’s International Tax Quantitative Services group. She joined EY in January 2016 and has spent most of her time in Corptax implementation for domestic, international, and partnership modules, assisting in provision implementation, or conversion application from/to Corptax, developing templates with Corptax Office and import package for international compliance process, participating in integration of external models, and developing OCR (Optical Characters Recognition) models for forms 5471 and 8858.

Prior to joining EY Heidy spent 10 years focused on performing services around the Corptax suite of compliance and provision products, specializing in domestic, international and pass-through modules functionality at Discovery Communications, Inc. Heidy has extensive experience in the automation of the entire tax compliance process, from interaction with general ledger and other source systems, to automating M adjustments and E&P adjustments and Corptax Office. Heidy also has extensive experience in calculation of Section 199 and Section 181 and was instrumental in the development of implementation and automation strategies that are considered Best Practice within the tax software field.

Heidy graduated from the University of Maryland in 1994 with a bachelor’s in Agribusiness and Resource Economics. Heidy took a diploma program in Advanced Accounting from University of Maryland University College, and some programming languages such as PL/SQL, VB, and C programming in 2004 at Strayer University. Heidy is Corptax International certified.

James Bella is a Director in the Tax Reporting and Advisory group, and is based in the New York office of Grant Thornton.

James has more than 25 years of experience in corporate taxation, tax systems implementations and process improvements, including knowledge of the major tax software packages. In his role at the firm, James works with clients on all aspects of tax management services, from software evaluation and selection to implementation, training and follow up, helping ensure that each implementation meets client expectations for process improvement.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton, James was a Lead Engagement Manager for Corptax Inc.’s Professional Services group. He oversaw implementations for global companies operating in the industrial goods, consumer products, financial services and technology industries. James led tax optimization projects that covered process design and tax system integration.

Jonathan has over 15 years of domestic and international tax accounting, compliance, process improvement and tax reporting technology implementation experience in both public accounting and as Director, Global Reporting and Compliance at Fortune 500 media & entertainment companies. Through a multi-disciplined approach combining tax, advisory and technology with a philosophy of continuous improvement and efficiency Jonathan develops and delivers solutions for the issues companies encounter in a constantly evolving tax reporting environment.

Kate is a senior manager in Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting Group focusing on tax technologies and data architecture. She has 10 years of experience with full cycle software implementations, accounting, compliance, and project management.

She specializes in tax transformation projects leading initiatives on tax processes, data automation, tax accounting financial reporting, and internal controls. Areas of specialization include implementation of tax systems, corporate compliance, and ASC 740 review and assistance.

Notable tax processes and technology experience includes implementing Corptax Provision software for Fortune 500 healthcare, engineering/construction, e-Commerce, and cable provider companies, implementing Longview Provision software for Fortune 500 manufacturing and healthcare companies, and implementing OneSource Tax Provision software for multiple Fortune 500 insurance companies. Other prior experiences include implementation of tax portal tools at a large technology company.

Lauren is a Tax Consultant in the National Tax Management Consulting practice within Deloitte. Currently based out of Houston, she has one year of professional experience serving clients, primarily in the telecommunications and oil and gas industries, in both the tax accounting and compliance space. Her experience has provided her the unique opportunity to combine her technical expertise with expertise in tax technology platforms. She is particularly experienced with the Corptax platform.
Lauren received both her B.S. in Accounting and Master of Accounting with an emphasis in Tax from Brigham Young University.

Lisa is a managing director and an attorney who has been with Deloitte Tax LLP for over 20 years.  Lisa has implemented, reimplemented, and improved many tax compliance and provision software packages at several multinational companies.  Lisa has served as the lead engagement manager for a number of large technology projects and is the national leader for services involving Corptax.  She also specializes in international tax compliance, data collection, and complex customization projects.  Before working in client service, Lisa was a member of the Corptax development team, where she built and maintained international and state and local compliance calculations.  Her entire career at Deloitte has been spent working on software implementation and technology related projects.

Lisa is currently a member of the Tax Management Consulting group.  This group focuses on services related to developing business processes around provision and compliance, assisting clients with the software vendor selection process, implementing tax provision and compliance software tools, and training.  Lisa is also the National Leader of the Technology+Tax Competency Group, an internal group within Deloitte focused on raising the awareness of technology-related tools and approaches that can garner efficiencies in the way we perform our day to day activities.

Lisa obtained her B.A. from Northwestern University and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.  She is a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois and belongs to the American Bar Association.  Lisa is from Wisconsin but currently lives with her family in Henderson, NV.

Matt leads product development for corporate direct income tax systems, including Corporate Tax Analyzer and Advantage State Tax Analyzer, at Bloomberg Tax & Accounting. Previously, Matt focused on tax technology consulting for large corporations, particularly multinationals, at RSM US LLP, a natural continuation of his work on tax planning and process enhancement while at AES Corporation, a worldwide electricity generation and distribution company. Matt also worked for KPMG LLP, where he served in both the Washington National Tax and Houston field offices of the international corporate tax consulting practice.

Melanie is a senior manager in EY’s International Tax Quantitative Services (ITqS) National Practice based out of the New York office where she manages multiple large US multinational international tax compliance and tax transformation projects.

Melanie has 13 years of public accounting and industry experience in international taxation focusing on quantitative services including international tax compliance, foreign E&P and basis studies, Subpart F and foreign tax credit analysis. She received a BA in Accountancy from De La Salle University and an MS in Accountancy and Taxation from Baruch College. She is a Certified Public Accountant in New York.

Patricia joined KPMG’s Ignition – Systems Integration team after working for Corptax, Inc. for 4 years. Since joining KPMG and while at Corptax, she has been entrusted with leading several complex and challenging projects for high profile clients. She manages these projects and ensures the services are delivered effectively and the clients are highly satisfied. She has continued to work with clients to improve their processes and increase the resources available for value added work. Corptax products include Federal and State Compliance, Corptax Provision, State by State Provision, and Corptax Office. Patricia has led implementation engagements in companies of all sizes including the insurance, banking, shipping and general manufacturing industries.

Ryan is senior consultant in EY’s Tax Technology and Transformations (TTT) team in Chicago. Ryan has experience with Corptax Compliance process review and optimization. Specifically, creating integrated solutions using Corptax Office and Corptax ODBC to automate data upload and review at micro and macro levels.

Ryan also has experience with integration of Microsoft Power BI Suite, including Power Query and Power Bi, with Corptax Office and ODBC solutions. Ryan has a Masters of Accounting, Taxation, from University of South Carolina.

Ryan Sheehan is a Senior Product Manager for Bloomberg Tax & Accounting. He is responsible for Bloomberg Tax’s Corporate Tax products, including Advantage Fixed Assets, Corporate Tax Analyzer, and Advantage State Tax Analyzer. Prior to Bloomberg Tax, Ryan was a CPA at KPMG’s Washington D.C. Metro office in the Business Tax Services practice.

Scott has over 20 years of experience in global tax accounting and compliance reporting, including experience auditing income tax accruals for SEC registrants. His focus over the last 10+ years has been dedicated to tax process improvement: assisting tax departments with the development of a risk-based approach to the global income tax reporting process, and maximizing the efficiency of these processes through the use of technology.

Scott’s tax technical knowledge and broad experience solving tax process challenges, coupled with his knowledge of technologies, has led to highly successful results on income tax reporting projects.

Staci has over twenty-two years of experience in the tax and technology field and has implemented Corptax USC, Corptax Provision, State Planner, Corptax Office, Corptax Calendar and Corptax International.

She has 16 years of implementation experience with Deloitte and Corptax. Staci began her career in industry, spending six years preparing tax returns (both direct and indirect) and calculating income tax provisions, first as a State Tax Accountant at Manpower, Inc. in Glendale, WI, and then as a Tax Analyst at Journal Communications in Milwaukee, WI.

Today Staci focuses on helping clients to develop processes for their tax compliance and reporting and to implement these processes within a tax software solution. She is the firm’s State Provision and Compliance Subject Matter Expert for Corptax and is also a Corptax Insurance Subject Matter Expert. Her industry experience spans beyond insurance and includes: Consumer Goods; Energy; Financial Services; Manufacturing; and Telecommunications

Sven has been with EY since April 2012. Sven is part of EY’s Tax Technology and Transformation (TTT) team in New York. Prior to joining the TTT team in NYC, Sven worked in Ernst & Young LLP’s (UK) TTT Practice in London.

Sven a Master’s Degree in International and European Tax Law from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and is a certified Project Management Professional. Sven enjoys exploring the world and its cuisines, reading and exercising.

Tenzin Sonam is a Tax Consultant in the Tax Management Consulting (TMC) Group of Deloitte Tax LLP based in New York, New York.  He has two years of experience in public accounting. Tenzin has worked in both tax compliance and consulting. As a member of the TMC practice, he focuses on tax process transformations, data wrangling, tax analytics, and assisting with tax provision/compliance implementations related to Corptax.

Todd is a Tax Managing Director in the KPMG Atlanta office and has worked in public accounting for approximately eighteen years. Todd spent the first two years of his career in the financial audit sector before transitioning to international tax. Todd leads the firm’s International Compliance Center of Excellence, specializing in co and out-sourcing for complex multinational compliance and provision engagements.

Tyler Lancaster is a Manager with Deloitte Tax LLP’s Tax Management Consulting (“TMC”) practice. He has over seven years of professional experience providing tax accounting, compliance, and consulting services for both corporations and pass-through structures. Tyler has primarily focused on working with clients to re-design and improve tax accounting and compliance processes through enhancements to ERP systems as well as the implementation of tax technology solutions, including numerous Corptax provision and compliance software implementations.

Tyler holds a B.B.A in Finance and a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Mississippi. He is a member of the AICPA and is a licensed CPA in Texas and Tennessee.

Wendell Is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Tax Ignition Practice. He has been working in tax since 1992, and focused on tax technologies and process improvements since 1998. Wendell joined KPMG in 2010 after working for CORPTAX for over 10 years. He has managed several complex and challenging projects for high profile multi-national clients. He managed these projects and ensured the services were delivered effectively and the clients were highly satisfied. He also worked with clients to improve their processes and increase the resources available for value added work. Wendell is a Corptax certified professional.