Chapter Leader

Michelle Schapiro
Los Angeles Chapter

Michelle Schapiro recounts her introduction to TEI more than twenty years ago. “From the time I started with The Cheesecake Factory, my former boss—and my current boss—were very involved with TEI and encouraged me to attend their seminars,” she says. “Since that time, I’ve been actively engaged with the local… Read more »

Jun Ping
Toronto Chapter

Jun Ping, chair of TEI’s Canadian Commodity Tax Committee, a director of TEI’s Toronto Chapter, and a chartered professional accountant, has always believed in the importance of communication skills and community interactions for tax professionals. In fact, advocating for the role of communications skills in tax is what helped Ping… Read more »

Jonathan Winn
Atlanta Chapter

Jonathan Winn, president of TEI’s Atlanta Chapter, has a clear plan for the chapter’s immediate future: to better engage members. “Atlanta is so geographically spread out, with a diverse footprint of hubs and business throughout the metro area. Our focus now is to meet the members where they work and… Read more »

Kelvin Jeffrey Ramirez
San Francisco Chapter

Kelvin Jeffrey Ramirez, CPA, president of TEI’s San Francisco Chapter and senior director of tax at Informatica, has a game plan for opening up communication and interaction within the chapter and beyond. “What’s top of mind is returning to in-person meetings. During COVID, we stayed in touch via Zoom, but… Read more »

Kristina Capretta
Toronto Chapter

Kristina Capretta, senior tax manager at PepsiCo Canada and the 2022–2023 president of TEI’s Toronto Chapter, has always had an interest in accounting and business, despite her original plan to become a teacher. In her first year of university, she found out quickly that she wanted to go down the business… Read more »

Sandra Esteves
EMEA Chapter

Sandra Esteves, head of tax at Talend (at the time of this writing, in June), is certainly well qualified to be the president of TEI’s EMEA Chapter, which covers Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Esteves joined the EMEA board two years ago as a first-year director. Last year, she… Read more »

Lefteris (LT) Toras
New Orleans/Gulf States Chapter

Editor’s note: The interview for this Chapter Leader article took place prior to the April 19 New Orleans/Gulf States Chapter event. TEI’s New Orleans Chapter had been dormant for a few years. Then, in 2022, Lefteris Toras, who goes by LT, met Tanya Coogan, Mitch Trager, and Wayne Hamilton at… Read more »

Betty Mak
Vancouver Chapter

Betty Mak, president of TEI’s Vancouver Chapter and director of tax at Maxar Technologies, says that, coming out of the pandemic, it has been important for her to help members reconnect. What’s more, Mak says, she’s glad she has reconnected with students from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where… Read more »

Scott Tincher
Cleveland Chapter

After Scott Tincher started his tax career in Columbus, Ohio, he returned to his roots in Cleveland in 2005. He knew that he needed to build a new professional network after moving from Columbus. His solution was one you might have thought of yourself at one time or another: joining… Read more »

Latacia Trice
Detroit Chapter

Latacia Trice, who took over as president of TEI’s Detroit Chapter in July, hopes to get back to more in-person events as well as to host the first social event the chapter has held in several years. Although she had been chapter president for little more than a month at… Read more »