52nd Annual Meeting 2021 | Council On State Taxation (COST) | 17 October 2021 | Bellagio Hotel and Casino & Webinar, 3600 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA

This program offers sessions of interest to every state tax professional in industry, whether a COST member or otherwise, as well as in the consulting, accounting and legal profession. The program covers all types of state and local taxes that business taxpayers are confronted with today and provides updates on key SALT issues.

2021 Speakers

Deborah Bierbaum
AVP Tax, External Tax Policy, AT&T

Kelli Murphy
State & Local Tax Attorney, Ford Motor Company

Douglas Lindholm
President & Executive Director, COST

Robert Tuinstra
Chair, Corteva Agriscience, COST

Charles Drury
Vice President & COO, COST

Nicole Bryant
Principal, Grant Thornton

Diane Yetter
Founder, YETTER

Jessica Morgan
EY

Mitchell Newmark
Partner, Blank Rome

John Fletcher
Partner, Jones Walker

Lynn Gandhi
Partner, Foley & Lardner

Robert Kruger
The Huntington Bank

Stephen Long
Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Jeffrey Burns
Partner, KPMG

Veronica Caputo
Partner, Grant Thornton

Matt Hedstrom
Partner, Alston & Bird

Charles Kearns
Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (US

Kyle Brehm
Officer, Fredrikson & Byron

James G. Busby, Jr.
The Cavanaugh Law Firm

Jaye Calhoun
Tax Partner, Kean Miller

Bruce Ely
Partner, Bradley

Nicole Ford
Legal Secretary, Baker & McKenzie

Michael Wynne
Tax Litigation Partner, Jones Day

Daniel De Jong
Senior Manager, KPMG

Sheila Holt
Partner, State and Local Tax Consulting, PwC

Mark Coggins
Director Of Government Affairs, North Carolina Chamber of Commerce

Dale Craymer
President, Texas Taxpayers and Research Association

Jason DeCuir
Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, Advantous Consulting

Marshall Guest
Senior Vice President, Metro Atlanta Chamber

Swati Patel
Executive VP of Public Policy, Of Counsel, South Carolina Chamber of Commerce

Kate Shanks
Vice President of Public Affairs, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

Eric Fader
Managing Director, BDO

David Machemer
HMB Legal Counsel

Dorothy Lo
Director - State and Local Tax, PwC

Scott Peterson
Avalara CertCapture

Tom Crowley
Agency Liaison Director for Unemployment Insurance, ADP

Jeff Swerdlow
Senior Director, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand

Sandra Jacobs
Manager Audit, KPMG

Rachel Quintana
Partner, Indirect Tax - Sales & Use Tax, EY

Patrick Reynolds
COST

P.J. Sheets
Managing Director, Crowe

Craig Fields
Partner, Blank Rome

Todd Lard
Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (US)

Lance Jacobs
Managing Director, Crowe

Glenn McCoy
Principal, Ryan

Linda Caprara
Senior Government Affairs Specialist, Maine State Chamber of Commerce

Chris Emigholz
Vice President of Government Affairs, New Jersey Business and Industry Association

Andrew Griffin
Vice President, Maryland Chamber of Commerce

Susan Haffield
Tax Partner, PwC

Carolynn Kranz
Managing Member, Industry Sales Tax Solutions

James Taylor
VP, State & Local Tax, Alliance Data

Glenn Newman
Tax Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Leah Robinson
State and Local Tax Partner, Mayer Brown

David Juvet
Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire

Carl Marrara
Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association

Eileen McAnneny
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation

Ken Pokalsky
Business Council of New York

David Gutowski
Attorney, Reed Smith

Timothy Kirkpatrick
Principal/Partner, PwC

Peter Larsen
Tax Practice Group Chair, Akerman

Priscilla Parrett
Partner, Vallejo, Antolin, Agarwal & Kanter

Samir Ramakrishna
Partner, Deloitte

Karen Currie
Principal, National State Income Tax and Transactions Leader, EY

Kyle Sollie
Partner, Reed Smith

Brett Carter
Tennessee Tax Lawyer, Carter Shelton

Lindsay Galvin
Principal, PwC

Scott Bruun
Oregon Business and Industry

Tommy Gantz
Government Affairs Director, Tax & Fiscal Policy, Manufacturing, Association of Washington Business

Antoinette Ellison
Counsel, Jones Day

Daniel Roy
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath

Leighanne Scott
State & Local Tax Attorney and Member, Caplin & Drysdale

Will Thistle
Partner, Bradley

Jason McGlamery
Director, Audit Sampling, Ryan

Bradley Tomlinson
Senior Manager, Zaino Hall & Farrin

Richard Anklam
President, New Mexico Tax Research Institute

Rusty Cannon
President, Utah Taxpayers Association

Cindy Creighton
President, Nevada Taxpayers Association

Ashley Harpstreith
Executive Director, Wyoming Taxpayers Association

Miguel Legarreta
President, Associated Taxpayers of Idaho

Kevin McCarthy
Arizona Tax Research Association

Tom Yamachika
President, Tax Foundation of Hawaii

Joe Garrett
Managing Director, Deloitte

David Pope
Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Eric Anderson
Managing Director, Andersen

Marilyn Wethekam
Shareholder, HMB Legal Counsel

Stephen Kranz
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery

Gerry Amoroso
Director, Grant Thornton

Jesse Noneman
Vice President of Operations, Property Tax, DuCharme McMillen & Associates

Jonathan Feldman
Tax Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (US)

Alexis Morrison-Howe
Tax Principal, Deloitte

Amy Drumm
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, Michigan Retailers Association

Elizabeth Kadoun
Vice President, Tax and Fiscal Policy, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce

Tony Long
Director, Tax & Economic Policy, Ohio Chamber of Commerce

Thomas Sands
President/CEO, Iowa Taxpayers Association

Maurice Scholten
Legislative, Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois

Bryan Slone
President, Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Keith Staats
Executive Director, Illinois Chamber of Commerce Tax Institute

Bill Waltz
Vice President, Taxation & Public Finance, Indiana Chamber of Commerce

Nicole Johnson
Partner, Blank Rome

Diann Smith
State & Local Tax Attorney, McDermott Will & Emery

William Backstrom
Partner, Jones Walker

Mark Loyd
Partner, Dentons

Curtis Osterloh
Attorney/Partner, Scott Douglass & McConnico

James Barash
Partner, RSM

Rhonda Sparlin
Partner-In-Charge, State and Local Tax, RubinBrown

Tim Winks
Senior Manager, Indirect Tax, Ferguson Enterprises, Newport News, VA

Gregory Burkart
Managing Director, Duff & Phelps, a Kroll Business

Mike Eickhoff
Managing Director - Credits & Incentives, Grant Thornton

Janette Lohman
Partner, Thompson Coburn

Danielle Ahlrich
Partner, Reed Smith

Gregg Barton
State and Local Tax Partner, Perkins Coie

Eugene Gibilarn
Of Counsel, Blank Rome

Zach Gladney
Partner, Alston & Bird

2021 Sponsors

• Alston & Bird
• Andersen Tax
• Ashland
• Avalara
• Baker McKenzie
• Barnwell Consulting
• BDO
• BlankRome
• Bradley
• Crowe
• Dentons
• Duff&Phelps
• EY
• Eversheds Sutherland
• Foley
• HMB
• Jones Walker
• Mayer Brown
• Pillsbury
• PwC
• RSM
• Ryan
• Sarus
• Step Up
• Vallejo Antolin Agarwal Kanter