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Gerard has serviced since October 2020 as coordinator for programmes at the Ministry of Digitalisation in Luxembourg. Previously he service as national coordinator for the EU Single Digital Gatway and was responsible for EU and international affairs.

Daniela has 10+ years of experience working in the consumer goods and healthcare industry worldwide. She is skilled in Indirect Taxes and International Taxation, Tax technology, SAP ERP, Financial Accounting, and Project Management. She specialises in setting up SAP correctly from tax perspective. She leads multiple projects to make sure of the company's tax compliance. And she has a focus on E-invoicing/E-reporting and New business models (e-commerce, subscription services, digitalization, B2B2C, D2C, etc.). She has a Master's Degree focused in Finance and Accounting from University of Economics, Prague.

Anisa is Head of Indirect Tax International at Equinor.  Formerly known as Statoil, she was previously Leader Indirect Tax International and Indirect Tax Advisory Manager. Her experience started in the Big4 , working at PwC and EY. She studied at the Universite libre de Bruxelles.

Samantha has enjoyed a career in Indirect Tax spanning more than 29 years.  Starting out in VAT with HM Revenue & Customs in the UK. She is currently Global Indirect Tax & Tax Technology Lead at Unilever. She recently was the Head of Indirect & Operational Taxes at GlaxoSmithKlein, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.  In that role, Sam was responsible for all VAT, CIT and Statutory compliance, together with VAT advisory and Employment Taxes. Prior to joining GSK, Sam led Indirect Taxes for the global information company Thomson Reuters, and was previously the European Head of VAT at the infamously defunct US energy company Enron.  She has also spent time in practice with Deloitte and Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC).

In her current role as head of Indirect Tax at Evonik, she is focused on: Global VAT Compliance, VAT Strategy, Coordination VAT & IT, VAT @S4-Hana, E-Invoicing in Europe and New Ways of Working in VAT. Her tenure at Evonik goes back to 2012. She has a Master of Arts in Taxation from Aalen University.

Jon is Director, International Tax Affairs at Microsoft, responsible for tax policy matters for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.  His role involves, ensuring awareness and understanding of forthcoming tax policy developments and assessing the impact for the business.  He currently chairs the AmCham EU Tax Committee and is a past chair of the DigitalEurope Tax Working Group. He is a member of the BIAC, ICC and Business Europe tax committees. He has worked in international tax for over thirty years.  Previous experience includes responsibility for tax at Skype, together with various roles with Big 4 accounting firms. He is based in the UK and is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Lorraine is a qualified CPA accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser; she is currently living in Amsterdam & was employed as Associate Manager with Stryker before being promoted to her current position, Senior Manager, OUS Indirect Tax Compliance at Stryker. She qualified as a CPA in 2008 and CTA in 2010. At the time, she worked for Cogent Taxation Group where she trained as a tax consultant & worked for 8 years.   

Raul is a highly motivated Indirect Tax professional, spending the last 18 years working for large US multinationals (Apple, AMD and TE Connectivity), since 2008 with focus in Indirect Taxes & Compliance, gaining during these years a strong knowledge in the European VAT Law and its application in SAP. He has a proven track record of success in internal and external Audits, as well as counting with an outstanding success in building solid internal and external relationships, working together with and leading multicultural Finance and Tax Teams from US, Asia and Europe.

He has lived and worked in Spain, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland over the last 21 years. Fluent in Spanish (mother tongue), English and German.

Juergen is Responsible globally internal to HP for transaction tax (VAT, WHT, GST, PST,..) reporting and accounting processes in the global finance organization, people managing a team of 9 (growing). The team ensures that all changes driven by businesses, IT, controllership and finance are compliant in terms of transaction taxes, and that tax reporting processes are not negatively affected. He is also responsible for intgration of EDS tax reporting processes into the HP processes, system-wise, people-wise and operationally.
Reponsible to build regional tax reporting hibs in LAR and APJ and to develop a business plan for the implementation of an in-house foreign tax reporting process (8th and 13th directive) for EMEA. In general, he has expertise in transacting tax operations and tax process and design, SAP and other ERPs, business process outsourcing and automation, global owner for HP Inc's finance shared services indirect tax processes.

Bernd is a tax lawyer specialized on VAT since 2004, starting at EY Germany, followed by 13 years at METRO HQ as Head of VAT. Since 2023 working as Head of VAT at Vodafone GmbH in Germany. He is focused on overall Business Partner VAT advice, Tax Compliance Management, VAT process optimizations and E invoicing.

Miodrag is a Swiss and Serbian lawyer with over 10 years of experience specializing in indirect taxes. After his time at EY, he joined Swiss Re, the world’s second-largest reinsurer, as an indirect tax expert. His expertise spans indirect tax advisory within financial services, including large transactions and audits. Miodrag is actively following developments in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles and their intersection with indirect taxes.

Anders is Business developer in VAT/SME at the Swedish Tax Agency, Service Development Unit. He has worked in various roles at the agency since 1998. He has worked as administrator, section manger, coordinator for VAT in various regions, and head of section, among other roles.

Karina has more than 15 years experience in Indirect Taxes (including big4 and in-house) with a strong focus on Data and Technology. Favourite topics: Data scraping, Data validation, RPA, Tax Automation, Processes standardisation, Data Reporting, DAC7, CESOP, VAT Numbers validation, etc.

Agata Veronese is an Officer at the Italian Revenue Agency. She works at the International Tax Unit and deals with advanced tax rulings as well as other international taxation issues that involves European legislative proposals and cases at the European Court of Justice, particularly in VAT matters.

Lorraine is a qualified CPA accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser; she is currently living in Amsterdam & was employed as Associate Manager with Stryker before being promoted to her current position, Senior Manager, OUS Indirect Tax Compliance at Stryker. She qualified as a CPA in 2008 and CTA in 2010. At the time, she worked for Cogent Taxation Group where she trained as a tax consultant & worked for 8 years. 

Helena is an experienced expert on indirect taxation. At BASF, Helena is in charge of inbound and outbound tax determination processes and systems for the EMEA region. Her career at BASF goes back to 2006.

Remco is currently responsible for running globally the Tax Operations within Blue dot. Blue dot is offering different AI driven Tax and audit solutions running on their online platform. The most known is the VATBox VAT recovery Solution, but Blue dot also offers solutions to analyse data for Employee Benefits (wage tax), Corporate Income Tax and Policy Audit on Employee expenses.

Before joining Blue dot, Remco worked as the EMEA VAT lead at PPG Industries and before that worked as a tax lawyer at Baker & McKenzie.  Remco is registered as a certified tax advisor in the Netherlands.

Gorka Echevarria, serves as the Global VAT Lead at Lexmark, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Additionally, he holds the position of Vice President for the EMEA Chapter of the Tax Executives Institute and sits on the Editorial Board of the International VAT Monitor, where he frequently contributes articles. He is also the co-author of VAT and International Trade (Lefebvre, 2021).

Hazel Ang is International Tax Manager of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA and is responsible for projects related to Tax compliance and digital transformation of Tax within Henkel. Hazel was responsible to lead Henkel’s regional tax team supporting Asia Pacific and North America affiliates in its shared service center in the Philippines before moving to headquarters in Germany.

Prior to joining Henkel, Hazel was a Tax Consultant at PwC in the Philippines. She was part of the Tax Compliance team, with clients from healthcare, pharmaceutical and business outsourcing industries

Camilla is a skilled Indirect Tax advisor and business Project Manager. She has a solid mix of 15+ years of Big4 and Industry experience enables a holistic and pragmatic approach to tax problem solving and managing business projects in a holistic context.  She’s currently Senior VAT Specialist at Danske Commodities. She previously was at Bestseller working on a variety of AP and indirect Tax issues. Before this, she was Head of Indirect Tax at Arla Foods and started at PwC in 2004.

Aline Berbari is a member of the Quebec Bar Association. She graduated in Taxation (D.Fisc.) from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). In 2017, after settling in Spain, she completed a Master's in international taxation at the Centro de Estudios Garrigues. Aline began her professional career in Canada where, for more than 15 years, she specialized in tax advisory specifically in international VAT, in major multinational companies in Canada and in Spain. Currently, in her role as global international tax manager for Joseph Ribkoff group, a leader in women´s apparel and fashion from Montreal, she takes charge of international VAT and Transfer Pricing management. As a main VAT practitioner, Aline believes that VAT is “never” a project stopper, rather everything is possible with a good strategical approach.

Oleh is tax pro with 13+ years' experience in international tax, transfer pricing, and indirect tax. He specializes in digital platform taxation. He has an LL.M. in tax law from Lund University.

Keiko is a Global Indirect Tax leader at Hitachi energy operating in more than 60 countries globally.  She has previously worked in Big 4 as indirect tax advisor and also in tax engine.  With combined experience, currently she is leading the tax stream for global S4 and tax engine deployment at the organisation.    

Shravan is currently managing a team of professionals who handle the domestic and cross border Value Added Tax reporting of the Zalando Group. He previously worked in Deloitte and EY and has a Master’s Degree in Taxation from the University of Limerick. He also has several licenses and certifications in e-commerce and management.

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