Kiyoshi Nakayama

IMF
Advisor,Fiscal Affairs Department

Kiyoshi Nakayama is Advisor in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund since 2007. He has worked mainly on technical assistance in tax policy and tax administration. Before joining the Fund in 2007, he was Professor of Tax Law at Graduate School of Business Science, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo. He had been with the National Tax Agency (NTA), Japan, at the divisions of VAT, Small and Medium Corporations, Large Taxpayer Office, International Examinations, and Mutual Agreement Procedures, and with the Ministry of Finance

Michael Lennard

United Nations
Chief Intl.Tax Cooperation FfDO

Michael Lennard is Chief of International Tax Cooperation in the Financing for Development Office (FfDO) 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.

Ketan Madia

GE
Vice President Tax

Ketan Madia is Vice President - Tax in the GE India Corporate Tax team and brings with him over 18 years of varied tax, finance and operations experience. Ketan started his career with Arthur Andersen in 1994, advising MNCs across industry segments on tax treaties, local taxes, foreign direct investment and exchange control regulations. He joined the GE Tax Team in 1999 and in his current role focuses on tax issues related to GE's industrial and infrastructure businesses, with specific oversight for big-ticket M&A transactions and high stake litigations.

Ben Henton

DBS Bank
Head of Transfer Pricing

Ben Henton is head of transfer pricing at DBS Bank, Ben is responsible for transfer pricing & international tax - global and regional policy setting ,transaction review and advice. Prior to joining DBS, Ben was tax leader at HSBC and VP at UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking ,He mainly responsible for Strutured Finance, Securitisation , Transfer Pricing, New Product approvals and transaction advice,etc.

Brian Jesinkey

Lenovo
Tax Director

Brian Jesinkey is director of tax, America and Asia Pacific for Lenovo, Brian is Responsible for the managing all of the direct and indirect taxes for North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific and he is supported by a team of 25 professionals and accounting firms across the regions. Focus areas include compliance, audits, income tax provisioning, transfer pricing/APAs, planning and internal business support.Prior to joining Lenovo ,he worked for Nortel ,EY and gsk..

Pramod Kumar

Indian Income Tax Appellate Tribunal，International Association of Tax Judges, the Netherlands
Judge，Director

Pramod Kumar is a judge in the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, India, and had the privilege to write several important rulings on transfer pricing and international taxation issues. Pramod is also a Director of the International Association of Tax Judges, The Netherlands, and was associated with UNDP project on South South Sharing of Sucessful Tax Practices.

Jeremy Ngai

ACCA Hong Kong
Chairman of Tax Sub-committee

Jeremy is a Partner in the China Tax and Business Advisory Services Division of PricewaterhouseCoopers specialising in China tax and business advisory. Jeremy has extensive experience in advising foreign investors in their inbound investment and M&A strategies into China. These include consultations on entrance strategy, investment structure, financing structure, tax due diligence, repatriation of profits, tax ruling applications, foreign exchange and customs duty consultations as well as negotiation with tax bureau for tax concessions and exemptions. Jeremy is a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ("ACCA") of the United Kingdom and a Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Jeremy is also the Chairman of the Tax Committee of ACCA-Hong Kong.

Jeff Obermayer

Johnson Electric
SVP & CFO

Jeff Obermayer is SVP & CFO at Johnson Electric ,Jeff have all areas of general corporate finance & accounting experience. Jeff specials in Financial and management accounting, auditing, M&A, pensions, treasury & risk management. capital markets.Prior to joining Jonnson Electric, Jeff was the VP & Controller at BorgWarner over 15 years.

Douglas Mackay

Lear
Indirect Tax & Customs Director Asia Pacific

Douglas Mackay is the Director Indirect tax and Customs APAC for Lear Corporation based in Shanghai. In his role he is responsible for all indirect tax [VAT, Excise, GST, etc] and Customs affairs for the region which include Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, India and Australia.Douglas began his career in 1983 with SARS, in South Africa, since then he has worked in industry as well as on customs reform and modernization projects. He specializes in the WTO Valuation agreement, in which he is an acknowledged trainer, having trained Customs officials in different African countries and for industry; as well as other technical areas. He moved to Asia in 2007, where he had a brief spell with Visteon before joining Lear in his current role in 2008.

Amit Gupta

DELL GLOBAL
Amit Gupta ,Tax Director – Asia Pacific

Amit Gupta is the Director – Tax for Dell in Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region. In this role, Amit is responsible for all tax matters across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and Singapore. Prior to joining Dell, Amit was the Tax Leader (VP) at GE Capital in India where his responsibilities included managing taxes (corporate and indirect) for various legal entities and advising/implementing tax efficient structures for equity investments, cross-border funding/loans, leases, joint ventures and acquisitions. Amit has also worked as South Asia Tax Manager for Intel and inter alia managed transfer pricing audits, negotiations with Government on tax holidays, duty/tariff reductions and exemptions.

Annie Han

Siemens
Transfer Pricing Senior Manager

Annie is a senior tax manager in North East Asia,Siemens Ltd,China.She is responsible for transfer pricing issues within the group in relation to industry and energy sectors,including transfer pricing planning,risk control and compliance,etc.Before joining Siemens,Annie was a transfer pricing manager in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. She is experienced in various tax and transfer pricing projects including APA,defenses,planning, documentations,etc provided to Fortune 500 companies.Annie holds her master's degree in economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.She is also a Certified Tax Agent of PRC.

Annie Pan

Reed Elsevier
Tax Director APAC

Annie Pan is currently in the role of Tax Director, APAC with Reed Elsevier, a global leading publisher and information provider operating in the science, medical, legal, risk and business sectors. It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges. Her role primarily focused on strategic tax planning and M&A deals by working closely with all 4 divisions across APAC region.Prior to that, she had worked as tax director, APAC for Tyco International, which is a Global Fortune 500 US listed company headquartered in Switzerland. This role provides tax oversight function of tax accounting/compliance and tax planning for all the 180 entities in Asian & Pacific regions, and focus on transfer pricing and M&A deals, cross border transactions, etc.

Felix Wong

Wah Construction Materials
Deputy General Manager - Finance

Felix Wong joined K Wah Construction Materials group (wholly owned by Galaxy Entertainment Group, a publicly listed company in HK) as Deputy GM Finance in Oct 2013 to take charge of its finance for the Yunnan area. I joined Nuokang Biopharma as finance director in February 2012 and have been chief financial officer since July 2012, Prior to that, I held various senior finance positions across a broad range of industries, including finance manager of Roche (China) Investment Ltd., one of the world's leading pharmaceutical and diagnostics firms. I also have a decade of auditing experience in large multinational accounting firms in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Nealis Liu

Suntech Power
Global Tax Director

Ms. Jing Nealis is currently the Global Tax Director of Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the largest producer of silicon solar modules in the world with offices in 13 countries. Prior to joining Suntech, Ms. Nealis worked in the Deloitte offices in Chicago, Shanghai and Hong Kong for 7 years. Through her current and prior work, Ms. Nealis acquired extensive knowledge and experience in development and implementation of strategies to manage companies' global earnings after tax, cross-border merger and acquisition deal structuring, tax-aligned global supply chain structuring, Intellectual Property planning, earnings repatriation techniques, global tax risk management, transfer pricing planning and etc.

Dr. Francis K. Liu

Guangdong (International) Finance Limited
Chairman

Dr. Francis K. Liu is the SFC Registered Investment Adviser holding Type 4 and Type 6 Licenses. He is a Registered Financial Planner (HK & PRC) and has extensive management, corporate finance, structural finance, commercial banking and investment banking experiences within the Asia Pacific Region. Currently, Dr Liu is the Managing Director of Guangdong (International) Capital Limited, the external Asset Manager of Credit-Suisse (Zurich), Independent Financial Adviser and External Asset Manager for Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Hong Kong), the Advisor to the Board of the Zhong Cai Offshore Investment Fund under Ministry of Finance in the PRC, the Advisor to the Government of East Timor and to Peru.

Lynn Parker

Regional Trade Compliance Manager, Asia Pacific
Rockwell Automation

Lynn Parker is the regional Trade Compliance Manager in Asia Pacific for the Operations and Engineering Services (OES) organization at Rockwell Automation in Hong Kong. In this role, she leads the development and strategy for trade compliance in coordination with Asia Pacific’s logistics teams. Lynn raises awareness of trade requirements and risks, provides trainings, and encourages participation by affected businesses and provides solutions. Lynn Parker is a U.S. Licensed Customs Broker who is a skilled advocate, negotiator, and customs law specialist with more than fifteen years’ diversified expert management on matters pertaining to trade and customs compliance. Lynn has demonstrated a thorough understanding of local customs practices and laws in the U.S. and Asia Pacific region. Lynn has functional expertise in the areas of import & export controls, determining preferential and non-preferential origin, free trade agreement eligibility, valuation issues, engaging outside counsel, supervising customs audits, writing position letters, and drafting voluntary disclosures.