Paul J. Hartman Memorial State and Local Tax (SALT) Forum 2019 | Paul J. Hartman Memorial State and Local Tax (SALT) | 28 October 2019 | Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, 2100 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37203, USA

The Paul J. Hartman State & Local Tax Forum was established in 1993 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since that time, the Board of Trustees and Advisory Board have worked together to provide industry, practitioners and state revenue employees the opportunity to participate in a quality forum exploring significant national developments and trends in state and local taxation. The Forum features speakers with the knowledge, expertise, and communication skills to impart current developments as well as the practical solutions and planning opportunities in structuring and reporting state and local tax transactions.

Professor Paul J. Hartman joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 1949 and he, along with Dean John Wade and fellow law professors Paul Sanders, Ted Smedley and Herman Trautman, formed a core group of faculty who remained at the law school for more than 20 years and were responsible for the school’s rise to national stature. “For many students, [Dean John] Wade was the brain of the School, and [Paul] Hartman was its soul,” Don Welch wrote in his history, The Vanderbilt Law School: Aspirations and Realities (Vanderbilt University Press, 2007).

Professor Hartman was a nationally recognized authority in state and local taxation. Although he retired in 1976, he continued teaching at the law school until 1988. Professor Hartman was honored in 1975, shortly before his retirement, when the law school’s “Outstanding Professor” award was named after him. The name of another legendary teacher, Professor Don Hall, was added to the award in 2007; it is now known as the Hall-Hartman Award.

2019 Speakers

Lorie McDonald
Partner, PwC LLP; Miami, FL

Christopher Wilson
Partner, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP; Nashville, TN

John Amato
Managing Director, PwC LLP; Stamford, CT

Clark Calhoun
Partner, Alston & Bird LLP; Atlanta, GA

Stacy Gibson
Assistant Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Revenue; Nashville, TN

Nicki Howard
Senior Tax Counsel, CSX Transportation, Inc.; Jacksonville, FL

Donna Bode
Tax Administration Officer, ConocoPhillips; Bartlesville, OK

Stephanie Csan
Managing Director, Deloitte Tax LLP; Parsippany, NJ

Jack Harper
Vice President, Corporate Tax, Discover Financial Services; Riverwoods, IL

H. Robert Boehringer III
Managing Director, Tax, KPMG LLP; Philadelphia, PA

Robert Calafell
Principal, National Credits & Incentives Leader, RSM US LLP; New York, NY

Erin McElhaney
Senior Manager, State Tax Planning, The Home Depot; Atlanta, GA

Hanish Patel
Attorney, Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP; Atlanta, GA

Ali Olivo
Director, PwC LLP; Fort Myers, FL

Anne Duffy
Partner, EY; San Francisco, CA

Matthew Mantle
Partner, State & Local Tax, Jones Walker LLP; New Orleans, LA

Jim Tauber
Managing Director, Andersen Tax LLC; Chicago, IL

John Barnes
Senior Director, Transaction Tax, T-Mobile; Overland Park, KS

Leah Robinson
Partner, Mayer Brown LLP; New York, NY

Kathy Saxton
Tax Managing Director, Deloitte Tax LLP; Atlanta, GA

Andrew Wagner
Retired VP-Law, FedEx Corporation; Memphis, TN

Benjamin Bright
Director, Sales & Use Tax, HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Nashville, TN

Faranak Naghavi
Partner, EY; Washington, D.C.

Justin Stringfield
Managing Director, KPMG LLP; Nashville, TN

Catherine Del Re
Partner, RSM US LLP; Edison, NJ

Matt Hedstrom
Partner, Alston & Bird LLP; New York, NY

R. Gregory Roberts
Partner, Reed Smith LLP; New York, NY

Bruce Fort
Senior Counsel, Multistate Tax Commission; Washington, D.C.

Lynn Gandhi
Partner, Honigman LLP; Detroit, MI

Hollis Hyans
Senior Counsel, Morrison & Foerster LLP; New York, NY

Richard Cram
Director, National Nexus Program, Multistate Tax Commission; Washington, D.C.

Brian Kirkell
Principal, RSM US LLP; Washington, D.C.

Mark McCormick, Partner
EY; Atlanta, GA

Arthur Rosen
Counsel, McDermott Will & Emery LLP; Miami, FL

Stephen Jasper
Member, Bass, Berry & Sims; Nashville, TN

Mitchell Newmark
Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP; New York, NY

Carley Roberts
Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; Sacramento, CA

Breen Schiller
Attorney, Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered; Chicago, IL

Joe Garrett
Deputy Commissioner, Alabama Department of Revenue; Montgomery, A

Maureen Pechacek
Partner, PwC LLP; Minneapolis, MN

Andres Vallejo
Partner, Reed Smith LLP; San Francisco, CA

David Brunori
Research Professor, The George Washington University; Vienna, VA

Jeffrey Friedman
Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP; Washington, D.C.

Todd Senkiewicz
Managing Director, Deloitte Tax LLP; Atlanta, GA

Marilyn Wethekam
Partner, Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered; Chicago, IL

Raymond Freda
Managing Director, Andersen Tax LLC; New York, NY

Brian Hamer
Counsel, Multistate Tax Commission; Washington, D.C.

Shirley Sicilian
National Director of SALT Controversy, KPMG LLP; Washington, D.C.

Mark Sommer
Member, Frost Brown Todd LLC; Louisville, KY

William Backstrom Jr.
Partner, Jones Walker LLP; New Orleans, LA

Erik Burgos
State Tax Director, General Dynamics Corporation; Falls Church, VA

Sarah Murray
Principal, Deloitte Tax LLP; Houston, TX

Jordan Goodman
Partner, Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered; Chicago, IL

Richard Pomp
Professor, NYU/UCONN; West Hartford, CT

Mark Holcomb
Shareholder, Dean Mead & Dunbar; Tallahassee, FL

Janette Lohman
Partner, Thompson Coburn LLP; St. Louis, MO

Glen McCoy Jr.
Director, KPMG LLP; New York, NY

Loren Chumley
Principal, KPMG LLP; Nashville, TN

Carolynn Kranz
Managing Member, Kranz & Associates/ISTS; Washington, D.C

Steve Kranz
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP; Washington, D.C.

Scott Peterson
Vice President of US Tax Policy & Government Relations; Avalara; Nashville, TN

Caragh DeLuca
Partner, PwC LLP; Chicago, IL

Bruce Ely
Partner, Bradley LLP; Birmingham, AL

Steven Wlodychak
Principal, EY; Washington, D.C.

Craig Fields
Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP; New York, NY

Maria Todorova
Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP; Atlanta, GA

Martha Wentworth
Judge, Indiana Tax Court; Indianapolis, IN

Susan Courson-Smith
Senior Director-Global Tax, Pfizer Inc.; Memphis, TN

John Harper
Director, KPMG LLP; Nashville, TN

Jessica Morgan
Senior Manager, National Tax Department-State Income Tax, EY; Rocky River, OH

Joel Walters
Retired State Revenue Director; Eden Prairie, MN

June Summers Haas
Partner, Honigman LLP; Lansing, MI

Susan Haffield
Partner, PwC LLP; Minneapolis, MN

Kimberly Robinson
Secretary, Louisiana Department of Revenue; Baton Rouge, LA

Alexandra Sampson
State Tax Counsel, The Hearst Corporation; Charlotte, NC

2019 Sponsors

GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS:
• Alston & Bird
• Ddeloitte
• EY
• Everheads Sutherland
• KPMG
• Morrison Foerster
• PWC
• Reed Smith
• RSM

SILVER LEVEL SPONSORS:
• Andersen Tax
• Bass Berry Sims
• Bradley
• Brunini
• Caplin & Drysdale
• Crowe
• Honigman
• HMB
• Jones Walker
• McDermott Will & Emery
• PillsBurry
• Thompson Coburn LLP
• Waller Lansden