Netherlands
Global Head of Tax gained strong experience with working within private equity owned businesses. Successful in growth and expansion projects through mergers and acquisitions, large business restructuring projects and establishing a global tax function. Excellent people manager skilled in International Taxation, Transfer Pricing and cross functional collaboration. Please reach out with a direct message if you are interested to discuss in more detail.
In this role I am the global head of tax of the Caldic Group, a private equity portfolio company owned by Advent International. Caldic is headquartered in Rotterdam with an annual revenue of appr. EUR 3bn and is a global distribution solutions partner active in the Pharma, Food, Personal Care and Industrial segments. I report to the global CFO of the Caldic Group and joined Caldic to set up the tax function and build a global tax team at headquarter level and build connections with the regional tax teams. Main focus on providing tax support on mergers and acquisitions and business restructurings and monitor and drive the overall tax position of the group. Act as main point of contact for tax matters to authorities, external and internal auditors and shareholders. Accomplishments: - Supported with the acquisition and integration of two regional businesses in LATAM and APAC which tripled the global revenue of the group; - Acted as tax lead on various Merger- and Acquisition transactions; - Hired and formed a global tax team of 3 FTE’s reporting to me at the headquarters; - Established and improved periodic global tax reporting routines and created a monthly routine for global and regional tax teams to share best practices and ways of working; - Part of the project team to develop and implement new tax reporting software within the group and manage the roll out of tax reporting software to all regions; - Developed and rolled out a Tax Control Framework within the group.
Team lead focused on corporate clients portfolio.
Driving strategic global tax planning initiatives for Kraft Heinz including the implementation and execution of planning initiatives. Partner with deal teams on merger and acquisition projects. - Provided tax technical and audit support to the global affiliates relating to centralized supply chain structures. - Created an operational transfer price system that will allow for contemporaneous management of the transfer price policy
Leading the tax team in the Asia-Pacific region with a business revenue of USD 2.5bn. The tax team in the region consists of approximately 15 team members. Focus on: - International tax planning - Internal restructuring - Transfer Pricing - M&A (recent: acquisition of Cerebos Asia closed in March 2018)
Leading the tax function in Asia-Pacific overseeing local tax teams in the region. Main focus on corporate income tax planning and tax risk management projects including tax efficient redeployment of cash. Mergers and acquisition projects including internal business changes. Managing regional transfer pricing requirements. Monitoring and resolving tax controversies.
At PwC, I was mainly involved in international tax structuring and M&A transactions. My clients were international financial services companies, including various alternative investment and private equity funds. Additionally, I gained wide experience in assisting corporate clients with international acquisitions structured via the Netherlands.