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BNA International, Inc.

Our Tutors

Our tutors are selected for their talent for teaching and the wealth of professional experience they have to share with participants.

Course materials are comprehensive and organised such that note taking can be kept to a minimum, yet participants take away a comprehensive summary of what has been covered.

KEN ALMAND

Ken is a partner at Baker Tilly UK where he advises on all aspects including planning, assurance and compliance issues, working with clients to develop and implement effective strategies that are aligned with their business and tax policies. He also specialises in assisting with tax authority disputes and in thin capitalisation and related compliance issues. Ken was previously a specialist in HMRC's international division. His responsibilities there included working on complex TP inquiries, litigation cases and APAs. He also negotiated numerous thin cap agreements and led the clearance team dealing with the UK anti-arbitrage legislation.

GARETH GREEN

Gareth Green runs independent UK transfer pricing boutique, Transfer Pricing Solutions Ltd. He has extensive experience in transfer pricing, primarily in the UK, but also in the US and New Zealand. Before setting up TPSL, Gareth was a Director in Ernst & Young's London transfer pricing group. He has comprehensively updated the transfer pricing and thin capitalisation section of Simon's UK Direct Tax Service and is Technical Editor of the BNAI Transfer Pricing Manual. 

JIM HEMELT

Jim Hemelt (JD, BS, CPA) is an adjunct professor in the Georgetown University School of Business and consults frequently on international tax matters, particularly in the area of transfer pricing documentation issues. He has spent his entire career working in the international tax area, both transactional issues as well as tax compliance and financial statement reporting issues. Most recently, he was Senior Director of Taxes for PSINet Inc. where he had responsibility for the income tax disclosure and FAS 109 implementation.

ANGHARAD MILLER

Angharad is a Senior Lecturer and Tax Route Leader at the Business School at Bournemouth University. Angharad was a Corporate and Personal Tax Consultant with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1979 to 1992 and a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University from 1993-1996. Angharad’s main areas of interest are tax risk management, international taxation and value added tax. 

GWEN TIGNER

An Enrolled Agent, Gwen has been a tax practitioner in the US for over 30 years and a National Association of Tax Practitioners (NATP) instructor for 20 years. She is a graduate of the College of Wooster, Ohio (BA) and the University of Toledo (MA) and has studied at the University of Michigan. Gwen has extensive teaching experience including having been an adjunct professor at Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio as well as being an instructor for the College of Financial Planning. She currently has a tax practice in New York.

DENNIS WEBER

Dennis Weber is a Professor of European Corporate Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) of the UvA. As a visiting Professor, he is a lecturer in the European Tax Studies course at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and at the International Tax Center of Leiden. He is affiliated to Loyens & Loeff as of counsel, where he is in charge of the European tax law team. He is a deputy judge at the Den Bosch Court of Appeal, where he is primarily involved in cases related to European tax law.

Allan Cinnamon

Allan has specialised in international tax planning for more than 35 years in a long career with BDO. Prior to his retirement as a partner, he was the firm’s head of international tax and chairman of the BDO International Tax Committee. He then continued in the role of international tax consultant to the firm, advising clients on all aspects of cross-border planning, appraising new legislation on international issues, creating and running the firm’s and BDO International’s international tax training programmes, and writing articles for professional journals. Allan is a member of The Tax Faculty’s Large Business and International Tax Committee.