Speakers
Kevin Hindley - Managing Director, Alvarez and Marsal Taxand LLP
Kevin has over 10 years of experience in corporate and international tax and works with multi-national companies active across UK and US jurisdictions, including both UK-inbound and UK-outbound work. Prior to joining A&M, Kevin was with Chiltern Plc, the UK's largest independent tax consultancy. Prior to Chiltern, Kevin spent eight years with the tax groups of Ernst & Young and Deloitte and is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA).
Peter Holland - Managing Director, Expatriate Management Services
Peter is the pioneer of delivering compliant expatriate payroll worldwide and one of the most experienced people within international assignment management outsourcing marketplace. Peter formed EMS in 2003 realising that there was a gap in the market for a compliant expatriate and multinational payroll solution. With leaders in the field of IT, Security and Compliance, EMS have since produced the most advanced Business Process Operating System for International Services, worldwide - AMIS. He has lived as an expat around the world, and held senior positions within the Military and Government for over 20 years.
Owen Davies - Senior Solicitor, Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen and Loewy
Owen has been Co-convenor of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association's business and employment subcommittee for the past three years and is a former Executive Board member of the same organisation. Owen speaks regularly at international conferences on UK and global immigration issues. He has advised UK and other governments on immigration policy and changes and presented on immigration law at universities including Yale, Berkeley, London Business School, Manchester Business School and Imperial College.
Rhys Llewellyn - Partner, Innovations LLP
Rhys studied languages at Swansea University prior to moving on to study Economic Science at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France. Rhys then moved to Coopers & Lybrand in London and 15 years later became the UK National Managing Partner of Ernst & Young's employee tax practice, the world's second largest professional services firm. Rhys prides himself on the "cost-down" value added solutions that he delivers to his clients and has also worked in Belgium, France and the US. He is also a well known speaker and frequently lectures at the University of Wales.
Jonathan Sermon - Senior Business Development Consultant, HiFX
Jonathan is a Senior Business Development consultant at currency exchange brokers, HiFx, one of the most trusted brands in the industry. The firm currently works closely with over 2,500 partners including property developers, real estate companies, emigration agents, solicitors, IFA's and other overseas relocation specialists giving an unrivalled knowledge of the market. With offices in the UK, Europe, North America and Australasia, HiFx advises on over £20billion in foreign exchange annually.
Ian Wilson - Ian Wilson Consulting
Ian started his own social security consultancy in 2005 after spending eight years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he built and led a network of social security specialists in over 40 countries throughout the world. Prior to this, he spent a number of years at the Department of Social Security. Ian teaches on training courses several times per year for European Employment Service staff and runs a regular social security workshop at Farnham Castle, one of the UK's principal centres for International Human Resources training. Ian has written many articles on international social security and is regarded as one of the foremost authorities in his field.
Clare Murray - Managing Partner, CM Murray LLP
Clare specialises in employment and partnership law and is experienced in providing tactical and pragmatic advice to a wide range of multi-national companies, UK businesses and US and UK law firms. Clare was a founder member and honorary secretary of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and is also a member of American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Section, the European Employment Lawyers Association, a Member of the International Bar Association, Legal Practice and Public and Professional Interest Divisions and is Chair of the International Committee of the UK Employment Lawyers Association.
Katie Davies - Director of Advisory Services, High Street Partners
Katie oversees High Street Partners' network of local service providers across five continents. Expert in a wide variety of cross-border issues including HR, Tax, IP and immigration consulting, Katie also provides hands-on client services to many of the firm's US-based accounts with operations in Europe. Prior to joining High Street Partners, she served as the Finance Director and Operating Officer of The Beanstalk Group, a joint venture of The Ford Motor Company. She was previously a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers and has an MA from Cambridge University.
Julia Clayden - Group Sales Director, Atlantic Corporate Relocation
Julia manages the group sales activities for Atlantic Corporate Relocation, a specialist firm providing global moving and relocation services. Prior to joining the firm, Julia was responsible for setting up the head office of Foursquare Relocation, a pan-European relocation company. Subsequent to this Julia spent 12 years within the relocation and international moving industries, providing the ability to understand the needs of the industry as a whole whilst addressing the many changes that have taken place over this period.
Richard Watts-Joyce, CTA – Managing Director, Global Tax Network Ltd
Richard co-founded Global Tax Network in 2000, having spent a number of years at the London offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG advising companies on international assignment tax planning and compliance issues. He also spent a number of years at Watson Wyatt Partners, advising on international compensation and benefit issues and the implementation of global stock plans, and the finance department of IBM (UK) Ltd. Richard has a BSc Honours Degree from the London School of Economics and qualified as a member of the Association of Taxation Technicians in 1995 and the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1999.
David Kolb, CPA, MBT - President, Global Tax Network US LLC
David focuses exclusively on providing expatriate and foreign national tax services to corporate and individual clients. Prior to combining with GTN, he was the President and co-founder of Hemisphere Tax Services, LLC, a boutique firm that specialised in expatriate and foreign national tax preparation and consulting. David began his career at KPMG, where he was a Tax Senior Manager in their International Executive Services practice. He received his undergraduate degree from Mankato State University, and holds a Master of Business Taxation from the University of Minnesota.
Claudia Howe, CPA - Partner, Global Tax Network SF LLC
Claudia is a partner of the Global Tax Network office in San Francisco and has over 11 years of international assignment tax experience, specialising in tax, HR, and accounting aspects of international assignments. Before joining Global Tax Network, Claudia was a Client Service Director at Resources Global Professionals focused on business development, recruiting, and project based client staffing. She also worked in the Global Employment Solutions Tax Group at Ernst & Young providing companies with tax consulting, tax compliance and other international assignment services for their globally mobile populations.