Business oriented Tax Leader who Creates Value, maximizes the Performance of his Team, and increases Efficiency. Delivers worldwide effective tax rate and cash tax savings utilizing creative planning and tax strategies. Transitions tax functions to best practices in IT, processes, and people in a positive manner. Creates value with efficient reporting and compliance processes. Deep technical tax and accounting knowledge coupled with superior management, business, and execution skills. Communicates complex tax concepts in a clear, common sense manner promoting effective decision making. ACCOMPLISHMENTS  Proven execution-oriented leader in multiple tax functions  Multiple successes in transformations of processes, people, and IT  Minimized global taxes for complex US and international companies from Asia to Latin America  Extensive M&A including international, structuring, negotiation, modeling, and due diligence (30 deals with a value over $12 billion) TAX AND ACCOUNTING SKILLS  Public Company Reporting, SEC, GAAP, IFRS, and Statutory Accounting  FAS 109, 141, FIN 48, qualified and non-qualified compensation  International tax including repatriation, FTC, transfer pricing, valuations and cross border issues