Horacio Peña
U.S. & The Americas TP Leader, PwC
Horacio Peña is a Tax Principal and Senior Economist based in the New York City office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He is the firm's U.S. and the Americas' transfer pricing practice network leader. Mr. Peña has twenty three years of experience (16 of those as a partner) conducting intercompany pricing studies and devising solutions to complex international tax, investment, and pricing problems faced by large and emerging multinational corporations. Mr. Peña has been retained as the world-wide transfer pricing economic advisor by many Fortune 100 companies and many of the largest pharmaceutical, technology and consumer product companies. He is currently assisting many companies in the formulation and implementation of supply-chain optimization, global profit alignment and tax minimization strategies.

Joseph Andrus
Head of Transfer Pricing Unit
OECD
Joseph L. Andrus is the Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit at the OECD. In that role he is responsible for the work of the OECD on transfer pricing matters. He serves as the Secretariat to Working Party 6, the OECD Working Party responsible for development of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines and other OECD transfer pricing work. Currently he is responsible for leading the OECD work projects on transfer pricing aspects of intangibles and on administrative simplification of transfer pricing matters. He is a 1976 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and has been a transfer pricing partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and at Baker & McKenzie in the course of a 35 year career.

Michael Lennard
Chief Intl. Tax Cooperation & Trade; FfDO
UNITED NATIONS
Michael Lennard is Chief of International Tax Cooperation in the Financing for Development Office of the United Nations. This work has a particular focus on ensuring the fairness and workability of international tax norms, including achieving greater developing country input into those norms, and encouraging cooperation to improve tax systems and administrations, as a spur to sustained development. Previously Mr Lennard was a tax treaty adviser in the OECD Tax Treaty Secretariat in Paris for three years and prior to that he worked on tax treaty and other international tax matters at the Australian Tax Office. He had earlier worked in the Australian government’s Office of International Law. He has led Australian negotiating teams on trade, investment, and tax treaty matters and has prepared argument for matters before the Australian High Court, the US Supreme Court and the WTO. His published work on treaty interpretation has been cited before WTO panels and before the WTO Appellate Body. Mr Lennard has degrees from the University of Tasmania, the Australian National University and Cambridge.

Alberto Barreix
Principal Fiscal Economist
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Alberto Barreix is Principal Fiscal Economist at the Inter-American Bank (IDB) where he is in charge of the technical advice on tax policy and administration reform projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Before joining the IADB, he has been lecturer on Public Finance at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Deputy Director of the Program on Tax Analysis at Harvard University. Mr. Barreix holds a Master in Public Administration (KSG) and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Adam Katz
Partner
PwC
Adam M. Katz is a partner in the national Transfer Pricing practice of PwC and serves as global leader of transfer pricing policy. Adam has more than 25 years of experience assisting US and foreign-based multinationals with corporate international tax planning and transfer pricing, including three years on assignment in London. Adam continues to serve in a strategic leadership role in PwC's financial services transfer pricing practice, having served as global leader for over 10 years. Adam advises multinational companies, mainly in the financial sector, on transfer pricing, global structuring, joint ventures, and cross-border asset transfers and valuations. His experience in transfer pricing includes global tax planning; US and global core contemporaneous documentation; and global tax controversy and dispute resolution, such as representation before the IRS with respect to advance pricing agreements, competent authority negotiations, and federal income tax examinations. Adam’s experience with multinational financial institutions spans all major areas of the industry's transfer pricing including global dealing, investment banking, other high value client services, technology and other support functions, treasury and lending/guarantee arrangements, and asset management and alternative investments.

Sergio Luis Pérez
Head of Transfer Pricing Audit Team
TAX ADMINISTRATION SERVICE (SAT, MEXICO)
Sergio Luis Pérez, Servicio de Administración Tributaria, Mexico, has been at Mexican SAT’s Central Administration for Transfer Pricing Examinations for the last seven years. Besides being the head of a transfer pricing audit team, he also directs the APA/BAPA program and conducts Competent Authority negotiations on BAPA’s and MAP’s with other tax administrations. As a Mexican delegate of the OECD’s Working Party 6, Mr. Perez was involved in the Business Restructuring Project and also in the Comparability and Profit Methods Project that concluded with the most recent modifications to the OECD’s Transfer Pricing Guidelines. An active participant of the OECD’s education program, Sergio has been invited to lecture to other tax administrations in Central, South America and Asia.

Garry Stone
US & Global Leader, Transfer Pricing
PwC US
Dr. Garry Stone, the Global leader of the Transfer Pricing Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), joined the firm in 1988. Dr. Stone is based in Chicago and has directed and performed numerous analyses of intercompany pricing and economic valuation issues for Fortune 500 size companies. Dr Stone performed projects in the automotive, banking, chemical, computer hardware and software, cosmetics, distribution, electrical controls and equipment, financial markets, food processing, heavy and industrial equipment, medical supplies, mining, pharmaceuticals, plastics, retailing, semiconductor and telecommunications industries.

Clisson Rexford
Global Transfer Pricing Director
AKZO NOBEL
Clisson S. Rexford is the Global Transfer Pricing Director for AkzoNobel, the world’s largest coatings manufacturer, headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mr. Rexford is responsible for overseeing the establishment, implementation, reporting and defense of AkzoNobel’s transfer pricing policies and practices around the world. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan and is a member of the ABA’s Committee on Transfer Pricing. Prior to joining AkzoNobel ten years ago, Clisson was with General Electric where he focused on federal tax appeals and litigation matters. His career began in Mayer Brown’s tax controversy group in Chicago where he participated in several large transfer pricing controversy and planning matters.

Elizabeth Blatchford
Manager; Transfer Pricing Strategy and Analysis
FORD MOTOR
Elizabeth Blatchford is Manager of Transfer Pricing Strategy and Analysis for Ford Motor Company, where she leads the company’s strategic transfer pricing efforts globally. In recent years, She has led her team through a dramatic increase in transfer pricing compliance requirements by leveraging low cost resources from the US and India. She has a wealth of global experience in finance, business strategy, and corporate planning. Prior to her experience in transfer pricing, Elizabeth served in a variety of Finance positions in profit reporting, investment analysis, and as cost analysis. Elizabeth earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in Accounting Information Systems from Wayne State University. She joined Ford Motor Company in 1984.

Linda H. Fernandez
Consultant, Transfer Pricing
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
Linda H. Fernandez is Consultant for Transfer Pricing in Eli Lilly and Company, a leading global research-based pharmaceutical company with over 38,000 employees in over 120 countries. She is responsible for transfer pricing compliance; overseeing all global transfer pricing documentation, including agreements to support inter-company transactions. She serves as a primary contact and consultant for Advanced Pricing Agreements (APAs), and has a key role in transfer pricing audit defense for global affiliates. She has broad international expertise gained through involvement in APA negotiations and trade group consultations and presentations (TABD and FTAA). As a member of the McDermott Will & Emery Transfer Pricing Discussion Group, she is a contributing author to Group comments to the OECD and the IRS, and presented Group comments at the OECD transfer pricing business consultations on business restructuring and intangibles. She holds a Bachelors from Denison University, a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a J.D. from Indiana University-Indianapolis (including studies in civil law), and is a member of the Indiana Bar.

Ron Mulder
Head of Transfer Pricing
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
Ron Mulder is Head of Transfer Pricing at Royal Bank of Canada (“RBC”) in Toronto, Canada. As a member of the RBC Taxation Group he is responsible for managing and developing RBC's global transfer pricing policy and audit risk management for RBC. Prior to joining RBC, Ron worked in the Advance Pricing Agreement team of the Dutch tax authorities and spent 11 years working for Deloitte & Touche in the international tax and transfer pricing practice of their Rotterdam, New York and Toronto offices.

Nancy Chassman
Global Head of Tax Controversy
AIG
Nancy Chassman is the Global Head of Tax Controversy for AIG, the insurance company. She leads a team of in-house tax controversy professionals and is responsible for the management of the Company’s worldwide tax audits and tax litigation. AIG has operations in approximately 130 countries and jurisdictions and employs over 60,000 people. Nancy has over 25 years of experience in the field of tax controversy, including experience in a big four accounting firm and as a senior trial attorney for the U.S. Chief Counsel’s Office of the IRS. She has a B.S. and B.A. from Boston University, a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.

Mike Heimert
Managing Director
DUFF & PHELPS
Mike Heimert is a Managing Director with Duff & Phelps and the global Transfer Pricing practice Leader. He has been named as one of the world’s leading transfer pricing professionals by International Tax Review for the last eight years, and has over 20 years of experience providing transfer pricing and valuation services for multinational companies across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, automotive, oil & gas, software, heavy manufacturing, and retail. Mike has been retained as an expert witness on transfer pricing, including the largest transfer pricing case ever, and has provided litigation support to attorneys and their clients in diverse matters involving economic analyses. Mike was previously the CEO and founder of Ceteris, the largest independent transfer pricing firm in North America. Prior to Ceteris, Mike was a partner and the National Director of Transfer Pricing and Economics for Ernst & Young.

Bradley Shumaker
Tax Counsel; Global Transfer Pricing Director
ZIMMER, INC.
Bradley W. Shumaker currently serves as Tax Counsel and global transfer pricing director for Zimmer, Inc., a medical device manufacturer based in Warsaw, Indiana. He has been involved with working both U.S. and foreign cost sharing and transfer pricing issues from a corporate perspective since 1997. His previous experience includes serving as the global transfer pricing director for eBay, and as the U.S. transfer pricing focal point for Royal Dutch Shell.

Mark Freed
Head of Global Transfer Pricing
INTEL CORPORATION
Mark Freed is the Director of Global Transfer Pricing at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, where he has worked in transfer pricing for the past 17 years after spending his first 2 years at Intel in the Operations Finance group as a sr. financial analyst supporting Intel’s manufacturing and R&D operations. In his current role, Mr. Freed leads a team of 9 transfer pricing professionals who work at Intel locations in the U.S., Canada, the UK and China. Mr. Freed has responsibility for all transfer pricing matters, including those in the U.S. and in the numerous countries where Intel’s foreign affiliates are located. His specific responsibilities include the determination of transfer pricing for all of Intel’s intercompany transactions, fulfilling documentation requirements for all related party subsidiaries (where required), defending transfer pricing in both U.S. and foreign audits, negotiating unilateral and bilateral APAs, and leading Intel’s engagements that occur with U.S. and foreign Competent Authorities. In addition to his transfer pricing responsibilities, Mr. Freed’s group leads two internal cross-functional consulting teams which provide Tax and Trade advice to Intel’s business units on proposed business initiatives and to Intel’s Legal Team on proposed contracts with 3rd parties. Mr. Freed graduated from the University of California at Berkeley (Cal) with a BS in Business in 1986, from the University of Michigan with an MBA in 1991, and from Golden Gate University with an MST in 2000.

Kathryn O'Brien
Global Transfer Pricing Leader
GENERAL ELECTRIC
Kathryn O’Brien is General Electric Company’s Global Transfer Pricing Leader. General Electric Company is one of the largest and most diversified multinational enterprises. Its businesses include a variety of technology, manufacturing and financial services companies. GE
operates in more than 100 countries around the world. Prior to joining GE, Kathryn was Ernst & Young’s US National Office leader for financial services transfer pricing and for transfer pricing controversy matters. During her transfer pricing career, which has spanned over 20 years, she has also worked for the IRS in the APA program, Mayer Brown and Platt and Cole Corette and Abrutyn.

Brian Sturtz
Director, Global Transfer Pricing
UNIVAR
Brian is the Director of International Tax and Global Transfer Pricing at Univar, a global chemical company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Brian is responsible for the US international tax consequences of the company’s global operations including compliance, planning, transfer pricing and controversy. Prior to joining Univar, Brian was the Director of Transfer Pricing for Walmart. There he directed the company’s transfer pricing related activities including negotiations with US and foreign governments, Federal and State transfer pricing planning and controversy, as well as global and local country documentation efforts. Prior to joining Walmart in 2010, Brian led the transfer pricing practice for the Detroit office of Ernst & Young.

Graeme Wood
Global Transfer Pricing Director
PROCTER & GAMBLE
Graeme Wood joined the Procter & Gamble Company in 1988 as UK tax manager after previously having worked at Deloitte Haskins & Sells. In 2006, Graeme became Director, Global Taxes – Transfer Pricing within the Geneva office, relocating to Cincinnati in 2008. Graeme has also been involved with providing guidance to the OECD on business restructuring issues, presenting to an OECD Roundtable in 2005 and becoming a member of the Business Advisory Group for a recent Business Restructuring project.

Mark Schuette
Managing Director
DUFF & PHELPS
Mark Schuette joined Duff & Phelps in 2012 as a Managing Director with over twenty five years experience consulting with clients on business, accounting, tax and valuation issues. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Mark was a Managing Director at Ceteris, where he led the southeast region for the company. Mark was previously with Ernst & Young for ten years, where he was the Partner-in-Charge of the Southeast Transfer Pricing and Economics practice. In this role he conducted transfer pricing studies for global companies located across a six-state region. Mark also has more than five years experience providing litigation services to attorneys and their clients, including preparing for and participating in trial depositions, as well as delivering expert witness testimony. Mark holds an MBA in Finance and a BBA in Accounting from Loyola University of Maryland. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mark is a frequent speaker on transfer pricing topics and co-authored the BNA Tax Management Portfolio on Accounting for Uncertain Tax Positions in Transfer Pricing under ASC 740-10 (FIN 48) published in 2012.

Tracey Russow
Senior Solutions Consultant
THOMSON REUTERS
Tracey serves as Director of Strategy for ONESOURCE Operational Transfer Pricing at Thomson Reuters. She works closely with clients to develop project plans, and assist in the implementation of new processes. Prior to this role, she served as a Senior Solutions Consultant responsible for ONESOURCE global tax solutions where she worked with companies to improve their process. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Tracey’s career included over 10 years in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young, providing advisory and consulting services to Fortune 100 companies. Tracey also spent five years as a Tax Director at Verizon Wireless.

Gregory Potts
Senior Director; State Tax Controversies
WALMART
Gregg Potts is Senior Director of State Tax Controversies for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Greg is responsible for all state income and franchise tax audit matters, including providing state and local advice on planning and litigation support. He is also, responsible for all state related FIN48 reporting requirements. Greg has over 20 years of experience working in both government and private industry. He started his career working as an auditor with the California Franchise Tax Board and over the years has worked for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Greg has worked for Cisco Systems, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Levi Strauss and Fujitsu Systems, Inc. Greg received his B.S. in accounting from California State University, Hayward.

John Megna
VP - Tax
TOSHIBA AMERICA, INC.
John Megna is the VP – Tax for Toshiba America, Inc. John has been with Toshiba for over 26 years, and while with Toshiba, has many years of experience in the Transfer Pricing area and also with Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs). John’s group also performs Documentation Studies for many of the Toshiba companies and / or divisions that are not part of their APA. John is also responsible for Toshiba’s IRS audit defense in the U.S. John has also worked for Casio, Inc. for 5 years in the same capacity as with Toshiba and before Toshiba, John worked in a medium size Public Accounting firm in his home state of N.J.

Olga Manziy
Director, North America Transfer Pricing
GsK
Olga is responsible for North America transfer pricing planning, compliance and defense for GlaxoSmithKline. Her expertise is in valuation of intangible property in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to GlaxoSmithKline, she was working in transfer pricing area for KPMG and BMS.

Mohammed Iqbal
Global Head of Transfer Pricing
DEUTSCHE BANK
Mohammed Iqbal is the Global Head of Transfer Pricing at Deutsche Bank.Having joined in 2006 and based in London, Mohammed leads the transfer pricing function in Deutsche Bank with a global team located in Frankfurt, London, New York and Hong Kong. Mohammed has over 16 years of experience in the field. He began specialising in Financial Services transfer pricing in BNP Paribas. After four years he moved to Merrill Lynch in 2000 where he was part of a small team small team managing transfer pricing across all divisions of the organisation. Mohammed qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young. He graduated with Honours from King’s College London reading Biotechnology.

Michael Dong
Director of Tax
SEGA of America
Michael Dong is the Director (Head) of Tax of SEGA of America in San Francisco, California. He has over 20 years of experience across various industries in U.S. corporate taxes, international taxes, transfer pricing and APA negotiation. Prior to joining SEGA, Michael was senior tax manager for multinational companies in semi-conductor, tele-communication and banking industry after his tenure with Coopers & Lybrand (PwC). Besides the current responsibility, Michael advises MNEs in areas of cross boarder M&A, transfer pricing, international and U.S. domestic taxes. He is a guest professor for a well-known Chinese university in Shanghai and a frequent speaker in China as well as at international forums on international transfer pricing. Michael is also a frequent contributor to U.S. and Chinese taxation journals.

Todd Miller
Partner
HOGAN LOVELLS US
Todd Miller is a member of Hogan Lovells’ tax practice group. His practice encompasses a broad range of matters with particular emphasis on tax controversies, transfer pricing, international tax planning and corporate acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations. He also serves as Hogan Lovells’ tax matters partner. Todd’s tax controversy work involves representing domestic and international clients in tax audits, and appeals before the IRS, in mediation and in litigation. Todd’s practice before the Internal Revenue Service also involves such matters as ruling requests, requests for extensions of time to file elections, and closing agreements.Todd’s transfer pricing practice includes counseling domestic and international clients with respect to the transfer of intangible property, cost sharing agreements and the pricing of goods and services. It also includes the successful resolution of a significant number of transfer pricing matters with IRS Appeals and the resolution of other matters through competent authority procedures. Todd’s international tax planning practice involves advising U.S. businesses on the most tax-efficient means of expanding their foreign operations and international businesses on establishing and expanding their operation in the United States. Todd is also active in advising both domestic and international clients concerning corporate acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations, including spin-offs.

Sergio Sevilla
Tax Director
TELEFONICA
Sergio Abrajan Sevilla is a CPA and MBA, with more than 25 years of professional experience in the field of corporate taxation in Mexico and internationally. Sergio is currently Tax Director of Telefonica in Mexico. He is member of the IFA and of Colegio de Contadores Publicos de Mexico. Sergio is a frequent speaker at prominet tax conferences both in Mexico and internationally.

Amparo Mercader
Transfer Pricing Principal
PwC
Amparo Mercader is a transfer pricing Principal in the Washington Metro office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Amparo also serves PwC's transfer pricing leader for the Carolinas. A full time transfer pricing economist since 1999, Amparo advises multinational companies on transfer pricing matters. Amparo's specialization is on evaluating, and documenting intercompany pricing arrangements, in particular the transfers of intangible property, royalties and cost sharing arrangements. Amparo has significant expertise in tax efficient supply chain transformation, post-deal integration and structuring. In this capacity, she has worked on implementing tax structures, transfers of technology and cross-border financing around the world. For non US owned multinationals, Amparo has worked on debt capacity analysis, and she has experience with pricing of loan guarantees and loans. Amparo has assisted multinationals in audits, competent authority proceedings and Advance Pricing Agreements. Amparo has worked on a broad range of industries including pharmaceutical, software and technology companies. Amparo has a BA in Economics from the University of Uruguay and a MBA from Georgetown University.

Julia Sceats
Head of Transfer Pricing
AIG
Julia Sceats is Global Head of Transfer Pricing for AIG, a leading
international insurance organization serving commercial, institutional, and individual customers throughout the world. Julia and her team are responsible for all transfer pricing matters as they relate to the AIG organisation including compliance, documentation, implementation, policy setting and strategy. Julia qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor with KPMG in 1998, subsequently moving into a transfer pricing role with the firm in 2001. She joined AIG in 2008.

Ednaldo Silva
Managing Director
ROYALTYSTAT
Ednaldo Silva PhD, is the Founder of RoyaltyStat LLC. He is an
economist specialising in transfer pricing controversy and the valuation of intangibles and has extensive experience with litigation support and as economic expert in cases involving transfer pricing controversy and APA submissions. While serving at Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Ednaldo Silva was a drafting member for the Section 482 (Transfer Pricing) Regulations and was the first economist in the APA Program. He was responsible for introducing the “Comparable [Operating] Profits” Method (CPM, TNMM under the OECD Guidelines), the “Best Method Rule,” and the Arm’s Length “Range” under the Section 482 Regulations.

Katherine Amos
Senior Director; Transfer Pricing
TYCO INTERNATIONAL
Katherine Amos is the global head of transfer pricing for Tyco International. Tyco International is a Swiss-based diversified multinational operating in a variety of markets. Previously, Katherine was a managing director with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in its New York and New Jersey offices, specializing in the transfer pricing issues surrounding the life sciences industries (primarily pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotech companies). She began her career with Ernst & Young LLP and has focused exclusively on transfer pricing since 1992.

Joshua Wookey
Interim Transfer Pricing Director
VMWare
Joshua Wookey is a Transfer Pricing Director for Oracle. He is responsible for intercompany pricing, IP and legal entity valuation, tax audit support, and global documentation. Prior to joining Oracle, Joshua was a member of the San Francisco transfer pricing practices of Duff & Phelps and PricewaterhouseCoopers specializing in addressing TP issues affecting the high technology industry.

Jimy Cruz
Head of Transfer Pricing
PKF MEXICO
Jimy Cruz holds 15 years of experience as a transfer pricing economist. He is the Leader of Transfer Pricing Services at PKF Mexico and LATAM Region in charge of planning and advisory projects, local and regional documentation, controversy management, advance pricing agreements, mutual agreement procedures and business and intangible valuation services. He has also designed effective transfer pricing strategies to support clients in controversy cases and is a leading speaker in several Forums and Summits annually. He founded Transfer Pricing and Tax University, a concept dedicated to impart Courses and Forums specialized in these topics. He has worked in the past in BDO, Ernst & Young, Baker & McKenzie and KPMG.

Lionel Nobre
Director, Latin America Tax
DELL, INC.
Latin America Tax Director for Dell, Inc. since 2006 where he manages a team of more than 20 professionals and covers 14 jurisdictions in the region. Main responsibilities include tax planning, tax compliance and tax controversy/litigation. Prior career included working for major international accounting and law firms holding roles such as the Director for the Latin American Consulting Services practice of BDO Seidman, LLP and the Director of the Brazilian Business Advisory Services practice of Grant Thornton LLP. Is a frequent speaker at international tax conferences for several years in Brazil, USA, Argentina & Mexico. Has published several articles on Latin American taxation as well as is the author of the BNA Portfolio on Transfer Pricing in Brazil. Licensed Attorney in Brazil. Law Degree from the Pontifical University of São Paulo - PUC-SP, LLM in International Law from the Pontifical University of São Paulo – PUC-SP; LLM in Comparative Law from the University of Miami. Certified Financial Planner - CFP.

Carlos Perez Gautrin
International Tax Attorney, Global Transfer Pricing
LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL
Carlos Perez Gautrin has responsibility for the transfer pricing policy, documentation and method determination procedures applicable to the worldwide operation of Lexmark. Carlos holds the quarterback position in the pricing and multinational tax strategy for the intercompany distribution flow of Lexmark printer hardware, software and supply products in the global market. Previously, Carlos worked as International Tax Manager for VeriSign, Inc., Senior Tax Researcher for International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), and has practiced tax law in major legal firms. Carlos has an LLM degree in International Taxation from New York University School of Law.

Christopher M. Eichner
Senior Tax Manager International
MONSANTO COMPANY
Chris leads Monsanto's global transfer pricing team. Chris has been involved in transfer pricing for the last 20 years at various US multinationals. At Monsanto Chris leads a team that is responsible for transfer pricing planning, restructuring, compliance and audit. His experience includes transfer pricing work with tangible and intangible property, financing costs, services and supply chain. Chris holds an accounting degree and an MBA and is a certified public accountant.

Melvin Rodriguez
Global Tax Director
WARNACO
Melvin has over 20 years of experience in transfer pricing, tax, and valuation. He began his career as a valuation consultant. As a transfer pricing consultant, he has resided in Mexico City, Chicago, New York, and Amsterdam where he lived and practiced transfer pricing for 6 years. He has also worked extensively in Asia particularly in China. Upon returning to the US, Melvin became the international tax and transfer pricing director of the second largest global advertising holding company. Currently, Melvin is the global tax and transfer pricing director of a global apparel wholesaler and retailer. In his spare time Melvin is an avid photographer and competitive rower

Jeffrey Cozzo
Director
ktMINE
Jeff is the Director of Operations and an Economist at ktMINE and is responsible for managing customer relationships, partnerships and
for bringing new products to market. Jeffrey has previous transfer pricing consulting experience and has performed various services for multinational companies including tangible, intangible, and services analyses. In addition, he has experience in litigation support, including section 936 exit strategies and intellectual property valuation. Jeffrey has worked with clients in a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, software, industrial goods, automotive, logistics, retail, and financial services.

Mimi Song
VP Transfer Pricing
BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI
Mimi Song is currently Vice President and Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd.’s New York Branch (“BTMU”). She manages over $150 million of service charges using activities-based costing, and analyzes the arm’s-length pricing for over 200 different types of services. Prior to joining BTMU, she worked as a transfer pricing consultant for Duff and Phelps Corporation, designated as the “Best Transfer Pricing Team” in the United States by World Finance magazine, and managed the transfer pricing professional services team at Thomson-Reuters, a global leader in research and information. She has over ten years of specialized experience analyzing numerous intercompany transactions, including tangible and intangible property transfers, financing arrangements, and various support services to satisfy U.S., OECD and global transfer pricing requirements, for Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

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