Member Profile
Josephine (Josie) Scalia
Josephine (Josie) Scalia developed an interest in tax in her first year at a Big Four accounting firm. Here’s her backstory: “I originally started my career in audit. When my husband and I decided to accept an opportunity to work in the US, I knew that we would need to… Read more »
Anne-Marie Nguyen
Anne-Marie Nguyen is what you might call a “dynamo.” Nguyen is currently a junior at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in Montreal, majoring in international business and minoring in management. She is also enrolled in a co-op program, which enables students to work while pursuing their… Read more »
David Gillman
David Gillman began his tax career at Peat Marwick, the predecessor to KPMG. “I came into their audit function and worked through that busy season,” he explains. “But partway through, I was introduced to their tax option program where you could apply for and be selected to go right into tax after… Read more »
Jonnell Quarrie
Editor’s note. At the time this article was written, Quarrie was director of tax at MOD Pizza but has since started as director of tax at Dutch Bros. When Jonnell Quarrie was taking accounting classes in college, she realized she didn’t like accounting. That happens. But she did like tax,… Read more »
Melissa Smith
When Melissa Smith was in her second year of law school, she thought most students knew what they wanted to do in their budding legal careers. “Some wanted to be litigators, some wanted to be corporate lawyers. Everybody seemed to know, and I had no clue.” But then, she says,… Read more »
Danielle Beluch
Danielle Beluch doesn’t consider herself a “traditional” tax person. Here’s how she explains it: “I started my studies as a chemistry major, but when I proved to be a klutz in the lab, I knew I had to pick another industry to study. Accounting seemed to be a safe option,… Read more »
Steve Saunders
Steve Saunders gained an appreciation of the complexity of tax early in his career as a CPA. Here’s how he explains it: “I assumed tax was fairly prescriptive and predictable. As my work became more complex, I gained an appreciation for the nonlinear thinking that is so necessary to being… Read more »
Anna Ogenblad
When Anna Ogenblad was a second-year law student, she took a tax course and was pleasantly surprised: “I thought I was going to hate it, but instead I really found it interesting and decided to take a few more elective tax papers to specialize in tax even further.” Ogenblad, now… Read more »
Cathy Stevens
Cathy Stevens says it’s a myth that being a tax professional means you have very little interaction with other people. On the contrary, say Stevens, director of domestic taxes at Brunswick Corporation: her involvement in controversy and incentive work allows her to meet with other corporate business units and learn… Read more »
Mary Jones
Can tax be a refuge from other academic pursuits? For Mary Jones, director of benefits taxation at Microsoft Corporation, it was. “I fell into the tax space as I was trying to escape litigation and employment law and found the benefits group at an employment law firm with which I… Read more »
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