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EPTP 2020P A R T I C I P A N T S B A C K G R O U N D

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Alexandra HaenerCurriculum:Executive program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality:Swiss

Education:2004 | Certified fiduciary2010 | Certified tax expert

Short CV:Alexandra has 18 years of broad experience as a tax specialist at a big 4 audit firm, amultinational group and in the banking sector. During 6 years, Alexandra was the headof tax of a Swiss based manufacturer with global activities where she designed andimplemented the group’s tax governance including its transfer pricing policy.Furthermore, she managed the group’s TP documentation and tax dispute resolutions(tax audits and APAs).

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Alexandre LoucqCurriculum:Executive Progam in Transfer Pricing

Nationality:French

Education:2015 | CPA – French Chartered Accountant Certification2006 | Msc in Audit controlling & accounting – University of Paris XIII2003 | Bachelor in macro economics and international relationships – University of Paris IX

Short CV:Alexandre is currently Finance Manager in Chicago Pneumatic Tools, in charge ofFinance and tax matters.He has 12 years’ of experience in audit and finance, with significant period incommodity trading and Agribusiness sector.Since 2012, he has been involved in various tax matters, especially tax restructuring,transfer pricing topics like TP internal controls implementation, documentation (CbCR,MF an LF), or Permanent Establishement investigation and risk remediation.

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Anja BenzCurriculum: Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: German

Education:2015 | Swiss Certified Tax Expert2009 | Master in Business Administration,

University of Applied Science Offenburg, Germany

Short CV:Anja has 10 years of work experience in the tax area of a multinational group regardingSwiss and international tax implications on group restructurings, mergers andacquisitions. Anja has a broad experience in tax accounting and reporting. She alsoworks on VAT topics and as well on global projects.

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Anna Pérez AlinsCurriculum: Executive program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Spanish

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Economy (Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005)Post graduation in Tax and Accountancy. Tax auditor access course (Barcelona, Centro deEstudios Financieros, 2009)

Short CV: Anna has almost 7 years of experience as an International Tax Counsel in in-house departments of large multinationals. Today she is working within the PharmaSector, focused on transfer pricing documentation, audits defense and APA’s. Before, sheworked for an advisory firm involved in General Taxation and also she has some previousfinance and accountancy background.

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Annalisa VergatiCurriculum: Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Italian

Education: Bachelor in Economy and Finance

Short CV:Annalisa has 12 years’ of diverse experience in tax. She started in a tax an law firm in2008 and joined EY in 2011 working in the following service lines: Transaction tax,Business tax services, International tax services and Transfer Pricing) . Starting from July2019 Annalisa is a part of Tax Planning Department at Enel S.p.A.

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Beatriz FernándezCurriculum: Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Spanish

Education:2019 | Master Degree in Legal Practice -Spanish BAR for law practice- UCAV2018 | Law degree, Universidad Católica de Ávila (Ávila, Spain)2011 |Business Administration degree, ESIC Business & Marketing School (Valencia,Spain)

Short CV:Beatriz is an economist and lawyer actually working as Tax Consultant for some of thebiggest local manufacturing companies and high net worth individuals of her region(Albacete, Spain).She acquired her expertise in taxes after spending more than four years studying on thehighest State Level to work as a State Tax Inspector for the Spanish TreasuryDepartment, in Madrid.

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Dr Benji MothibediCurriculum: Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: South African

Education:1987| B.Juris, University of the North-West (South Africa)1989| LLB, University of the North-West (South Africa)1993| LLM (Tax), University of South Africa1994| Higher Diploma (Tax), University of Johannesburg (South Africa)1999| PhD (Tax) University of Kwazulu-Natal: Pietermaritzburg (South Africa)2003| Post Graduate Diploma (International Tax Law) Robert Kennedy College (Switzerland)2005| Program in Management Development, Harvard Business School (Boston, USA)

Short CV:Benji is formerly a Chief Operating Officer, Chairman of Boards, and Group Head of Tax. Hehas over 26 years of corporate tax practice experience. He started his tax career at ArthurAndersen in September 1989. He was, until he resigned from KPMG in August 2014, theSenior Tax Technical Partner and Head of the KPMG Tax Technical Department in SouthAfrica. He is currently the Managing Tax Partner of Tax 4Sight CC, specializing in South AfricanCorporate Tax Aspects of: M&As; Private Equity LBOs; Corporate Restructuring; Syndicated &Mezzanine Finance; Project Finance; Debt Restructuring; Derivatives Held For RiskManagement; and Corporate Tax Dispute Resolution and Litigation..

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Céline MartinCurriculum: Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Swiss

Education:2018 | Certified Tax Expert (Switzerland)2018 | Dr. iur., University of Berne (Switzerland)2015 | Economics Degree, University of Hagen (Germany)2011 | Bar exam2009 | Law Degree, University of Zurich (Switzerland)2007 | Law Diploma, King's College London (UK)2001 | Swiss Banking Certificate

Short CV:Céline is a senior associate at Homburger AG in Zurich. She advises corporate clientsand entrepreneurs in domestic and international tax law. Her practice focuses on taxplanning, reorganizations, relocations, acquisitions and successions. She is experiencedin tax procedures and regularly represents clients in the communication with Swissauthorities and in appeals. She has experience in various transfer pricing issues indifferent industries with regard to one-time transactions as well as MNE transfer pricingconcepts. She is also a part-time expert judge at the administrative court of the cantonof Aargau and regularly publishes and lectures in her areas of expertise.

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Christoph NiedererCurriculum:Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Swiss

Education: 1998 | Law degree University of Zurich (Switzerland)2001 | Bar exam2006 | Swiss certified tax expert

Short CV: Christoph is the head of tax of VISCHER Zurich, he primarily advises companies andprivate individuals on international tax law and procedural and criminal tax law. His clients includeseveral multinationals from various industrial sectors. He also has extensive experience instructuring company sales. In addition to his work as an attorney, Christoph lectures on a regularbasis at the Academy of the Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants and withKaleidos Academy. He chairs the tax chapter of the Swiss Bar Assoction and is also a substitutejudge at the Zurich District Court.

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Emilia SiravoCurriculum: Executive Program in Transfer PricingNationality: USA, Italian

Education:2000 | BS Economics, Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania, USA)2005 | Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU)2005 | American Reinsurance Underwriter (ARe)2009 | CELTA, DELTA I,III; SVEB: Certifications in Education 2013 | Masters Degree, Education (magna cum laude), New School University (USA)

Short CV:Emilia is a Transfer Pricing Manager at Swiss Re and is active in reviewing Swiss ReGroup intra-group transactions. She is also responsible for Swiss Re Group’s TaxTransparency Reporting and supported the group in publishing its first Tax TransparencyReport in 2018.

Emilia is a Chartered Reinsurance Underwriter and has over 9 years experience inreinsurance treaty (property and catastrophe pricing and underwriting). Her backgroundin reinsurance pricing and techniques is important for reviewing bespoke intergroupreinsurance arrangements and insuring they are priced at Arm’s Length.

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Eric EllbergerCurriculum:Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality:Swiss

Education:- Master of Business Adminstration, Corporate Finance | 2011Georgia State University – J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta (US)

- Bachelor of Science, Accountancy and Finance | 2009Haute Ecole de Gestion, Geneva (CH)

- Diplôme d’école Supérieure, Hotel Administration | 2004Hotel Management School of Geneva, Geneva (CH)

Short CV:- Strong experience in financial controlling and corporate tax administration

especially with IFRS, Swiss, Lux and US GAAP;- Over 10 years head-office working experience in Finance within international

corporations (Intrum / Manas / Hyatt); - Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with experience in leading several

teams, projects, and restructurings; - Excellent ethics and behaviours; persistency and follow-through capabilities;- Experienced in optimizing business processes by leveraging technology;

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Iwona StrzępkaCurriculum:Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality:Polish

Education:• Attorney-at-law (District Chamber of Attorneys-at-Law in Wroclaw, Poland)• Master of Laws (University of Rzeszow)• B.Sc. Management (Rzeszow University of Technology)

Short CV:

Over 6 years of experience in the professional services industry, including providing advisory services to Swiss multinational companies as well as small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the field of transfer pricing and tax planning, implementation and transfer pricing documentation. Iwona supported clients with on-going corporate tax and transfer pricing issues, as well as during tax audits. She also took part in tax due diligence projects and provided the clients with tax advisory in the restructuring processes.

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Javier García BerdonceCurriculum: Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Spanish

Education:2015 | Masters in Taxation and Tax Consultancy. Centro de Estudios Financieros (Spain)2013 | Double degree in Law and Business. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)

Short CV:Javier started his career at Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, where he worked for morethan three years in the Transfer Pricing Team focusing on the the analysis of relatedtransactions of multinational groups.Since 2019 Javier is the Transfer Pricing Manager of Nordex Group (Frankfurt StockExchange listed company). He was previously working at Cosentino Group as TransferPricing Specialist.

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Jörn SegelhorstCurriculum: Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: German

Education:

Bsc. Economics, University of Maastricht

Short CV:Jörn is a Senior Tax Professional with over 10 years of experience. His expertise gravitates around M&A Tax, International Tax as well as BEPS driven transformation projects. After a 9.5 year term with a Big 4 company in Zurich, Jörn recently joined dormakaba’s Group Tax department.

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Michelle WhyteCurriculum:Executive Program Transfer Pricing

Nationality:Canadian

Education:

• 2004 - Certified Public Accountant USA (State of Illinois, USA)• 2001 - Tax Specialist Part II – Corporate Tax (CPA Canada)• 2000 - Tax Specialist Part I – Personal Tax and Trusts (CPA Canada) • 2000 - Chartered Professional Accountant Canada (CPA Canada and CPA Nova Scotia)• 1995 - Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) magna cum laude - Saint Mary’s University (Halifax,

Canada)• 1992 - Bachelor of Science (Biology) - Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada)

Short CV:• In January 2019, Michelle joined Dufry’s Global Tax & Risk Team at their headquarters in Basel,

Switzerland. Her main responsibilities are Tax Accounting/Reporting and Internal Controls Compliance (Financial Statement Reporting).

• Michelle started her career at Coopers & Lybrand and KPMG where she mainly focussed on Corporate Tax Compliance in the Technology Sector. In 2001, Michelle joined a global satellite operator where her roles and responsibilities migrated from Corporate Tax to Control Compliance (SOX 302/404). In 2008, Michelle moved to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Insurance, Securitization and Lending). Her last position held at CMHC, before moving to Switzerland in 2016, was Director of Financial Reporting.

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Patrick MangaCurriculum:Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Cameroon

Education:2006 | Postgraduate degree (DESS) in Legal Advisory and Corporate Tax Consulting, University of Douala2005 | Master’s in Business Law, University of Douala (Cameroon)

Short CV:Patrick has 14 years of experience in the area of legal and tax consulting.

He started his career at ABENG Law Firm, member of the MIRANDA network. He first joined the company asa legal Consultant. After that, he joined C2A Cameroon (KPMG tax) and then Legal and Tax AdvisorCameroon firm.

He has served various companies in Cameroon across various business sectors and has provided legal taxand social assistance to some local and foreign organizations as part of their set up and compliance with thelaw in force.

From 2015 to date, Patrick has been the Legal and Tax Supervisor of Grant Thornton Cameroon.

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Raymond KeereweerCurriculum:Executive program in Transfer PricingNationality:Dutch

Education:

1995: Master in Tax law from Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)

Short CV:

Raymond is an accomplished tax professional with a distinguished track record steeringdiverse finance activities toward optimal performance; particular expertise ininternational corporate taxation, transfer pricing and BEPS inspired transparencyregulations. Most recently, Raymond focused on implementing businesstransformations across Europe. Raymond has worked with noteworthy companies asKoch Industries Inc, CSM NV, Sara Lee/Douwe Egberts, and Ernst & Young. He has beenin Switzerland for 15+years.

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Roman HeckCurriculum:Executive Program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Swiss / Belgian

Education:2016 | IBFD Seminar – Principles of International Taxation2011 | Bar exam, Canton of Berne2008 | Master of Law, University of Fribourg, Berne and Ljubljana

Short CV:Roman has been working since October 2018 as policy advisor on the TP section of the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF) in Berne. Previously, he was posted as a diplomatic officer at the Swiss Permanent Delegation to the OECD in Paris, where he followed besides other economic fields, the OECD fiscal policy work as the implementation of the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) and the negotiations and adoption of the reports on base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS).

After obtaining his attorney license, Roman started his career at the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) in Berne processing international cooperation requests for market enquiries. He then joined the SIF working initially in the field of information exchange and administrative assistance for fiscal affairs. Roman holds a law degree and specialized in administrative and international public law.

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Rossana RavelliCurriculum:Executive program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality:Italian

Education:Degree in Economics (Università degli Studi di Pavia)

Short CV:Rossana has 14 years of experience in various areas of the CFO department in amultinational company of the Italian banking sector. Since 2012, Rossana is workingwithin the transfer pricing office, focusing on transfer pricing documentations incompliance with several EU jurisdictions, transfer pricing policy design, cross bordertransactions analysis and m-up evaluation, transfer pricing risk monitoring and supportin handling tax authorities enquiries during tax audits.

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Thomas PetrakosCurriculum:Executive program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality:Greek

Education:MSc Finance, Track: Asset Management, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands BSc Public Administration, Track: Public Economics, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece

Short CV:Thomas has two and a half years of experience in transfer pricing and valuation.Currently, Thomas is working for an independent boutique advisory firm in Amsterdam,that provides transfer pricing related services as well as tax valuations. He is specialisedin the transfer pricing aspects of financing and real estate management relatedtransactions but also deals with goods and services related transactions on a regularbasis. Thomas also performs various valuation analyses including but not limited tovaluations of shares, Hard-To-Value intangibles, financial instruments and businessrestructurings for tax purposes.

Thomas has mainly worked with clients from the real estate industry, as well as with oiland gas, marine and software companies, that are primarily located in the Netherlands,Luxembourg, Greece and Cyprus.

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Yukti SitaniCurriculum: Executive program in Transfer Pricing

Nationality: Indian

Education:Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University, India and Chartered Accountantancy(CPA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)

Short CV:Yukti has 3.5 years’ of experience in transfer pricing in India with the with deepunderstanding of clients business and the regulatory issues involved with a diverseexperience in Information Technology, Infotainment, Manufacturing for medium andlarge-size multinational enterprises.

Since September 2018, Yukti is working within the transfer pricing department for alarge global consultancy company in Zurich, Switzerland, focusing on global transferpricing documentations, re-)organization of multinational companies’ transfer pricingstructures and systems.Yukti has mainly worked in Switzerland with clients from the pharma industry, as well aswith industrial and commodity companies.