2023 Speaker Faculty
Nora Bafrouri
Global VAT & Tax Technology Leader
Trane Technologies
Aleksandra Bal
Indirect Tax Technology Lead
Stripe
Alex Baulf
Senior Director, Global Indirect Tax
Avalara
Aline Berbari
Manager, International Tax
Joseph Ribkoff
Philipp Besson
Partner Service Line VAT & Insurance
WTS Germany
Nils Bleckmann
Partner/ Head of Service Line VAT Germany
WTS Germany
Peter Boerhof
VAT Director
Vertex
Lianne Bowker
Indirect Tax Solutions Consultant
Thomson Reuters
David Currie
Director – Tax
BlackRock
Lisa Dowling
Senior Global Director – Head of Indirect Tax, Advisory & Compliance
Taxback International
Marie-Odile Duparc
Counsel
CMS France
Gorka Echevarria
Global VAT Lead
Lexmark
Conceição Gamito
Senior Counsel, Head of Indirect Tax
Vieira de Almeida & Associados (WTS Global Portugal)
Karine Halimi-Guez
VP, Tax
Booking.com
Joe Healy
Chief Commercial Officer
Taxback International
Francois Herbecq
Tax Director, Benelux
L’Oréal
Mark Houtzager
EMEA Tax Leader
Starbucks
Jenny Köppe-Karkutsch
Senior Manager Digital Transfer Pricing & AI
WTS Germany
Oleksandr Koriak
Tax Manager, EMEA
Uber
Benoît Labiau
Tax & Treasury EMEA Manager
Terumo Europe
Charanya Lakshmikumaran
Partner
Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
Berardo Lanci
Partner
CMS Italy
Markus Loibl
Global Head of Indirect Taxes
Siemens AG
Nick March
Global head of VAT
OneWeb
Chiara Mejnardi
Managing Associate
WTS R&A (WTS Global Italy)
Marta Pankiv
Head of Tax
Tricentis
Pedro Pestana
CEO
Marosa
Nicoletta Petrosino
Global Indirect Tax Manager
Nestlé
Tiina Ruohola
Chair of BusinessEurope’s VAT policy group
Head of VAT, Confederation of Finnish Industries
Adam Schaffner
Director, Inbound Product Marketing, Indirect Tax
Thomson Reuters
Jürgen Scholz
Global Head of Indirect Tax
WTS Global
Rhys Smithson
Indirect Tax Director
WeWork
Matthew Snoding
VAT Policy Officer - DG TAXUD
European Commission
Madalina Stefan
Global Senior Manager, Indirect Tax
Tenneco
Erik Stessens
Senior Vice President, Tax, International Markets
Mastercard
Marlon van Amersfoort
Indirect Tax Lead - EMEA
Shell International
Stijn Vastmans
Partner
Tiberghien (WTS Global Belgium)
Johan Visser
Indirect Tax Partner
Atlas Fiscalisten (WTS Global Netherlands)
Ed Conlon
Editor in chief
International Tax Review
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