20 years of adding value through keen insights and astute analysis.

• Results oriented corporate tax executive with a strong track record of complex structures and diverse business interests.
• A principled leader, team builder, partner, and businessman with a strong sense of ownership and a talent for finding and unlocking lasting value.
• Solid interpersonal skills with a strong ability to simply communicate tax concepts to non-experts.
• Accomplished in systems, procedures, and control with an unwavering attention to detail.
• Able to seize the moment in high pressure situations requiring rapid analysis and implementation.

Notable Accomplishments:

• Acquisitions and Dispositions. Led the US tax team on sixteen buy-sell transactions worth $12+ billion, twice causing transactions to succeed, and in other transactions - saving $100 million in cash, - reducing completion costs from $85 million to nil, - increasing future amortization deductions by $70 million, - and structuring around $17 million of state tax.
• Strategic and Tactical Tax Planning. Achieved the strategic rate reduction goal of 31% and implemented over 25 million$+ projects worth $120 million net by - adjusting debt to equity ratios, - restructuring foreign and domestic operations, - optimizing US tax credits and losses, - creating foreign sales corporations, - tuning transfer pricing, - and a variety of other recurring and one time strategies.
• Tax Audits and Controversies. After restoring cooperation and trust, brought IRS audits current by successfully negotiating and settling 25 large case tax years in 12 years while - eliminating IRS related professional fees, - initiating $20 million in successful claims, - mitigating unitary tax, - reviewing 4000 document requests, - and winning a Supreme Court case in Maine.
• Team Building and Process Improvement. Organized, hired, and supervised 15 high impact tax-professionals through 5 direct reports across U.S. business headquarters. Focused team development on customers, sharing of ideas and knowledge, continuous improvement, and value added. Transitioned staff to value added planning. Developed software and streamlined procedures and achieved strict compliance as well as 25%+ cycle time reduction in compliance and audits.