Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox has announced that Kristine M. Chadwick, CPA, has been named the agency’s Chief Financial Officer and Associate Executive Director (Finance).
Ms. Chadwick most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Commodity Credit Corporation. In that capacity, she […]
General Cable Corporation (NYSE:BGC) has announced that Brian J. Robinson has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, effective January 1, 2007. Robinson will report to Gregory B. Kenny, President and Chief Executive Officer of General Cable. He replaces Christopher F. Virgulak, who previously announced his decision to […]
HSBC’s Wealth and Tax Advisory Services business (’WTAS’), an independent (unaffiliated with an auditing institution) provider of tax, valuation, financial advisory and related consulting services, has announced that Barry Freeman and Jordan Bacon have joined as managing directors. These appointments are part of the business’ expansion of its corporate tax and transfer pricing capabilities. Based […]
HSBC’s Wealth and Tax Advisory Services business (’WTAS’) has announced that it has expanded its corporate tax, state and local tax services and national entity tax practices. This expansion will further assist WTAS, an independent (unaffiliated with an auditing institution) provider of tax, valuation, financial advisory and related consulting services, in becoming one of the […]
Nationwide Building Society has announced that Mark Rennison is joining its Board as group finance director. His appointment takes effect from 1 February 2007, when he will take over from Graham Beale, who becomes Nationwide’s chief executive on 1 April 2007.
Mark has spent his career to date with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He joined the firm in […]
Dr. Peter Diesch (52), currently CFO of Linde AG, has been appointed the new Chief Financial Officer of KarstadtQuelle AG by the Supervisory Board.
His predecessor, Harald Pinger (46), is leaving the Company for personal reasons.
The Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Hero Brahms, thanked Harald Pinger for his work on behalf of the Supervisory Board and […]
XL Capital Ltd has announced three senior appointments.
Michael E. Mathisen has been named Global Treasurer. Mr. Mathisen will oversee XL’s global liquidity, funding, cash management, foreign exchange, balance sheet and capital management transactions as well as the Company’s rating agency matters. Mr. Mathisen, who is also a lawyer, joined XL in 2001 as Director of […]
FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated, one of the USA’s largest hotel real estate investment trusts (REITs), today announced the appointment of David W. McGivney as Vice President of Income Tax.
Mr. McGivney, 47, was most recently Vice President of Tax and Treasury for Valor Communications Group in Dallas, Texas. During his tenure with Valor, he held various […]
The new STEP Worldwide Chairman is Richard Pease TEP of Swiss law firm Lenz & Staehelin. John Riches TEP, of Withers in London, and Michael Young TEP, of Thring Townsend in Bristol, will join Rosemary Marr, of Pentera in Jersey, as Deputy Chairmen of the Society.
Richard Pease said:
“I would like to thank STEP members for […]
Emilio Foa is the new Chief Financial Officer of Benetton Group, with effect from April 2007. He joins Benetton from Burberry plc where he was deputy CFO since February 2005. In this role, among other activities, he dealt with financial planning and reporting, tax, treasury and accounting processes.
Foa joined Burberry after a 4 year experience […]
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, one of the world’s leading international law firms, has elected Gary T. Silverstein as Partners of the firm, effective January 1, 2007.
Gary Silverstein, resident in the New York Tax Department, represents issuers, underwriters, insurers and other parties in connection with the tax aspects of mortgage-backed and asset-backed […]
Ryan & Company, North America’s largest independent state & local tax consulting firm, continues its steady expansion with the opening of a new office in Charlotte, North Carolina. The office will be under the direction of Linda A. Falcone, who serves on the Board of Governors of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT).
Linda has […]
Dell has announced the appointment of Donald J. Carty to serve as the Company’s Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2007.
Mr. Carty has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since 1992 and for much of that time has served as chairman of the Audit Committee. From 1998 to 2003, […]
Tony Brown has been appointed as the new Chief Minister of the Isle of Man, succeeding Donald Gelling as the leader of the Island’s Government.
The new Chief Minister has chosen Allan Bell to continue as Treasury Minister after five years in the post which have seen the successful introduction of the Island’s zero tax […]
NERA is pleased to announce the expansion of its global presence with a new office in Shanghai. Located in one of the most important cultural, commercial, financial, industrial, and communications centers of China, NERA Shanghai adds to the firm’s footprint in Asia following the 2002 opening of its Tokyo office. NERA Shanghai provides economic consulting […]
Deloitte boosts tax expertise for its investment management clients
Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has appointed investment industry tax experts Matt Tombs and Tony Stitt to provide its investment management clients with a more integrated service. Matt Tombs has been appointed as a tax partner and joins the firm from Merrill Lynch where he was […]
Thought it might be helpful to list the specialist online job boards available to tax professionals. As far as I am aware this is the complete list:
eTaxJobs - Globalwww.CareersinTax.com - USATax Talent - www.TaxTalent.com - USATax Careers Online - www.TaxCareersOnline.co.uk - UKTaxation Jobs - www.taxation.co.uk/jobs - UK
Update: 2 March 2007. Taxation Jobs is relaunching as […]
Hot off the press. Matthew Phelps, legendary tax recruiter at Brewer Morris in the UK, has resigned. Matthew is a partner with the firm (part of The SR Group) and has spent the last 19 years recruiting tax professionals, primarily Heads of Tax for multinationals.
Matthew has decided to retire from the tax recruitment world and […]