Speakers

Jun leads Ryan’s Tax Technology Practice outside North America. He is a tax solutions architect who specializes in deploying the latest technologies for effective global tax determination and reporting. He has led multiple full cycle deployments in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America including Brazil across different ERPs. He has extensive experience with global Value Added Tax (“VAT”) and Withholding Tax (“WHT”) requirements, tax consulting, advisory, and compliance.

Áine is an experienced Senior Finance Analyst within a leading global nutrition company, with VAT compliance and process related experience within IT.

Shantanu has been in SAP for over 14 years and currently leads a host of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enablement, demand generation and customer support programs for EMEA. His particular interest is industry usecases and innovation related to the SAP S/4HANA transformation.

With my VAT knowledge as well as the experience in ERP customizing I´m closing the gap between the EU specific VAT legislations on the one hand and the technical system landscape set up on the other hand. I see myself as a valuable link between Tax and IT departments.

Michelle Lang is a Director of Consulting with Meridian Global Services and is based in our Dublin office. Michelle provides support and VAT advice on issues relating to Meridian clients operating in multiple EU jurisdictions.

With over 15 years experience of working with Meridian in tax technology projects, John has an in depth insight into the challenges of determining correct VAT results on complex cross border transactions.

Eoghan is a European VAT expert with experience of working in Global client companies, and dealing with all areas of compliance, process, tax strategy, supply chain management and IT configuration.

Nazar is an experienced VAT professional with a strong focus on tax technology solutions. He has worked with global businesses to ensure that their VAT determination and reporting within SAP is compliant and automated.

Christian is Chief Product Owner BPM, and has over 20 years experience in SAP. Christian has worked extensively with development teams, communicating with customers and partners, as well as capturing requirements and defining the product road map.

As the Chief Operations Officer of Tax Technology at Meridian Global Services, Derek leads the development and execution of global business operations and partnerships strategy.