Indirect Tax Forum 2020

Nihan Mert-Beydilli

Associate director – transfer pricing, NERA

Biogrpahy coming soon.

 Speaking session 

Assessing the OECD’s ‘Unified Approach’

Tuesday, December 1 - 10.30-11.15 CT

Niraja Srinivasan

VP global transfer pricing, Dell

Biogrpahy coming soon.

 Speaking session 

Assessing the OECD’s ‘Unified Approach’

Tuesday, December 1 - 10.30-11.15 CT

Harlow Higinbotham

Managing director;NERA

Biogrpahy coming soon.

 Speaking session 

Assessing the OECD’s ‘Unified Approach’

Tuesday, December 1 - 10.30-11.15 CT

Lorraine Eden

Research professor of law and professor emerita of management, Texas A&M University

Lorraine Eden, Ph.D. Dr. Eden is Professor Emerita of Management and Research Professor of Law at Texas A&M University (USA). She is a founding scholar in the field of transfer pricing economics. Her current research interests include transfer pricing, strategic responses of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to exogenous shocks, and digital economy business models. She served as 2008-2010 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies and 2017-2018 President of the Academy of International Business (AIB); she will be Dean of the AIB Fellows for 2020-2023. Dr. Eden has more than 30 years consulting experience on transfer pricing and MNE strategies and structures. She consults on transfer pricing controversy with the Analysis Group, where she has been an expert witness in two major transfer pricing cases. She can be reached at leden@tamu.edu.

 Speaking session 

Assessing the OECD’s ‘Unified Approach’

Tuesday, December 1 - 10.30-11.15 CT

Dara Kasouaher

Director of transfer pricing, Mondelez International

Biogrpahy coming soon.

 Speaking session 

Transfer pricing implications of US Tax Reform

Tuesday, December 1 - 11.30-12.15 CT

Keith Brockman

Welbilt

Biogrpahy coming soon.

 Speaking session 

Transfer pricing implications of US Tax Reform

Tuesday, December 1 - 11.30-12.15 CT

Dasantila Maksutaj

Group tax director, Terumo Medical Corporation

Dasantila (Lila) Maksutaj is the group tax director - head of tax of Terumo Medical Device Corporation. With over two decades of tax and accounting experience, her areas of expertise include domestic and foreign tax compliance and tax accounting ASC740, transfer pricing, income tax audits, research, and planning. She has an extensive experience in Advance Pricing Agreements (APA) and in-house transfer pricing documentation and planning for multinationals with manufacturing, distribution and service transactions. Previously, Lila served as the director of tax at Panasonic Corporation of North America and Aeropostale Inc.

Lila is highly committed to fostering productive and efficient organisations. Her experience as director of tax across multiple organizations has demonstrated pro-active efforts to develop tax efficient transfer pricing policies and procedures by optimizing the tax department functions, and leading initiatives to automate cumbersome tax accounting and finance processes. These efforts have resulted in greater accuracy in reporting, risk mitigation, cost savings, and ultimately enabled her staff to gain capacity to contribute to higher value strategic activities.

Lila earned her Economics degree at the State University of Science and Economics in Tirana, Albania. After moving to the United States with her family, she attended the University of Phoenix where she earned her MBA in Accounting. She is a CPA licensed in New Jersey. Lila was honored as one of the top 100 international Albanian professionals by Albanian Excellence. She is on the leadership committee of Women in Tax, New Jersey Chapter organization and a frequent presenter and organizer of various domestic tax conferences.

 Speaking session 

Transfer pricing implications of US Tax Reform

Tuesday, December 1 - 11.30-12.15 CT

Pat Dervin

Director of transfer pricing, Aon

Biography coming soon.

 Speaking session 

Operational TP and digitalisation

Tuesday, December 1 - 13.15-14.00 CT

George Stasny

Manager – transfer pricing, Halliburton

Biography coming soon.

 Speaking session 

Operational TP and digitalisation

Tuesday, December 1 - 13.15-14.00 CT

Carmen White

Director – tax technology, Microsoft

Carmen White is a Tax and Trade Process and Technology Director at Microsoft, where she oversees Tax operational activities, process improvements and technology deployments across all Tax functions. She has 20 years of Operational Transfer Pricing experience, having established this function at Microsoft in 2016 after managing operational transfer pricing activities at Hewlett Packard.  Carmen received her MBA and her BS in Finance and Management from the University of Oregon.

 Speaking session 

Operational TP and digitalisation

Tuesday, December 1 - 13.15-14.00 CT

Nicole Williams

Senior manager – global transfer pricing, Celanese

Nicole Williams is the Senior Manager of Global Transfer Pricing at Celanese Corporation, a $7B industry-leading chemical and specialty materials company.  Nicole joined Celanese in 2009 and has held various roles within the company.  Her current responsibilities include the implementation, management, and documentation of transfer pricing policies, models, and processes related to intercompany tangibles, intangibles, services, and intercompany financing.  In addition, Nicole has extensive experience in both US and foreign tax audits.  Prior to joining Celanese, Nicole held various positions at PwC.  Nicole received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting and her Masters of Accounting in Taxation from the University of Texas at Dallas.

 Speaking session 

Operational TP and digitalisation

Tuesday, December 1 - 13.15-14.00 CT

Yoshio Uehara

Partner, Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa

Biography comoing soon.

 Speaking session 

TP documentation and CbCR

Tuesday, December 1 - 14.15-15.00 CT

Amy Pinson

Senior manager – transfer pricing, Bayer

Biography coming soon.

 Speaking session 

TP documentation and CbCR

Tuesday, December 1 - 14.15-15.00 CT

Tosin Akande

Senior vice president – transfer pricing, Citi

Biography coming soon.

 Speaking session 

TP documentation and CbCR

Tuesday, December 1 - 14.15-15.00 CT

Jason Wiegand

Associate director – global transfer pricing, Procter & Gamble

13.5 years in Procter & Gamble’s tax organization, including roles in P&G’s US federal, planning, and transfer pricing groups as well as two assignments outside of the U.S.

Total of 5 years outside of U.S. – 3 in Johannesburg, South Africa as Sub Sahara Group Tax Manager and 2 in Geneva, Switzerland as Europe, India, Middle East and Africa Transfer Pricing Group Manager.

For past 2 years, served as Associate Director – Global Taxes, Transfer Pricing located in Cincinnati

Current role has a broad portfolio of TP focused responsibilities including overseeing P&G’s transfer pricing operations group, TP related tax controversy support (including APA negotiations), and tax policy matters. 

Prior to P&G, spent 6 years at Deloitte in Cincinnati focused on federal tax and tax accounting matters for large MNEs

 Speaking session 

TP documentation and CbCR

Tuesday, December 1 - 14.15-15.00 CT

Sadia Nazir

Director – global transfer pricing, Clarios

Biography coming soon.

 Speaking session 

TP documentation and CbCR

Tuesday, December 1 - 14.15-15.00 CT

Oscar Campero

Partner, Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa

Biography coming soon.

 Speaking session 

TP documentation and CbCR

Tuesday, December 1 - 14.15-15.00 CT