Key Team Members

Denver, CO:

Jenny Riddick

Jenny has over 17 years of progressive tax experience. Prior to joining GTN, Jenny was a tax manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers and an acting tax manager at Arthur Andersen LLP. Jenny's solid tax background includes specialization in compensation and benefits and, for the past six years, specialization in expatriate and foreign national taxation and human resources outsourcing in the international assignment arena. Jenny's clients have included United International Holdings, CH2M Hill, Newmont Mining, Cyprus Amax Minerals, Micro Motion, Inc., Exabyte, Echo Bay Mines, and Storage Tek.

Jenny has provided tax consulting research and review for these clients, including assignment cost evaluations, international compensation structuring and payroll administration requirements for home and host countries, establishment of stock plans for executive-level expatriate personnel by providing research related to home and host tax implications under various grant and vesting scenarios, and assisting with the development of new international assignment policies for a number of clients, including writing the tax equalization and compliance sections for such policies.

Email: jriddick@globaltaxnetwork.com

Minneapolis, MN:

David Kolb, CPA

David is a partner in the Minneapolis office, where he focuses exclusively on providing expatriate and foreign national tax services to corporate and individual clients. Prior to combining with GTN, David was the president and founder of Hemisphere Tax Services, LLC, a boutique firm that specialized in expatriate and foreign national tax preparation and consulting, encompassing pre-assignment planning through repatriation. David began his career at KPMG, where he was a Tax Senior Manager in their International Executive Services practice. David is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants. He received his undergraduate degree from Mankato State University, and holds a Master of Business Taxation from the University of Minnesota.

Email: dkolb@globaltaxnetwork.com

Stephen Daas, CPA

Steve is a partner in the GTN Minneapolis office with over eighteen years of experience in assisting clients in developing strategies to minimize the cost, including the global tax effects, and maximize the effectiveness of international assignments. He has also assisted clients with designing compensation packages, international mobility policy reviews and development, international personal financial counseling, and administration process reviews. Prior to joining GTN, Steve was a Partner with the Ernst & Young global mobility practice in San Jose, CA and Singapore. During his 3 1/2 year assignment in Singapore, he coordinated the global mobility area-wide services for a number of large accounts in the Asia Pacific region. Steve spent the first thirteen years of his career in the Minneapolis office global mobility practices of E&Y and Arthur Andersen. Steve received his undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. He is active in Carlson School alumni activities including the mentorship and scholarship programs.

Email: sdaas@globaltaxnetwork.com

San Francisco, CA:

Brent Bergan

Brent Bergan is the Global Tax Network Partner in charge of the San Francisco office where he provides tax consulting and compliance services to companies whose employees travel internationally. Focus areas include tax issues of expatriates, inpatriates and third-country nationals. His experience includes policy consulting for design, implementation and administration of international assignments, tax equalization policy and foreign country tax planning.

Brent has spent the last 5 years at Oracle Corporation as Director of Tax - International Assignments where he managed global policy, administration and tax compliance for employees on international assignment. Prior to Oracle Brent was a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young in the Global Employee Solutions Group in Palo Alto, California. Brent received a BS in Accounting from Indiana University.

Email: bbergan@globaltaxnetwork.com

Claudia Howe, CPA

Claudia has over 11 years of international assignment tax experience, specializing in tax, HR, and accounting aspects of international assignments. Before joining Global Tax Network, Claudia was a senior manager at Ernst & Young, providing companies with tax consulting, tax compliance and international assignment services for their globally mobile populations. Claudia has served a wide variety of programs, ranging from 1 assignee to 150 assignees in a great variety of Silicon Valley clients. Specifically, Claudia consulted with large multinational, as well as start-up company executives, regarding structuring international compensation and benefits packages for expatriate and foreign national employees; relocation and equalization policies; payroll administration; corporate tax and compliance issues.

Claudia received a BS in Economics from San Jose State University and a MA in Economics from Boston College. Claudia is originally from Germany and worked in Spain for 18 months after completing her college education. She now enjoys the international environment of working with global assignees and transferees and their corporate HR, tax, payroll departments making their assignments and programs successful.

Email: chowe@globaltaxnetwork.com

Pittsburgh, PA:

Roland C. Gargani, CPA

Roland is a US Certified Public Accountant and a member of both the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of CPA's. He is partner-in-charge of our Pittsburgh, PA office. Before his current position, Roland was a senior manager at Deloitte & Touche working in their Brussels, Belgium and Pittsburgh offices. Roland has specialized in U.S. expatriate and foreign national taxation for over 15 years. Roland graduated from Duquesne University with a Bachelor's degree in business administration and Robert Morris University with a Master's degree in Taxation. In addition to being a CPA, Roland is also a Certifying Accepting Agent for the IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number program.

Email: rgargani@globaltaxnetwork.com