Ryan, a leading global tax services and software provider, announced that Sam Guevara has joined the Firm as U.S. Tax Technology Practice Leader, based in the Chicago office. Mr. Guevara brings a wealth of experience in leading a national team of professionals skilled in sales and use tax, property tax, value-added tax, unclaimed property, and tax technology.
At Ryan, Mr. Guevara will be responsible for managing Ryan’s industry-leading team of tax technology professionals. He will focus on combining a broad array of technology services and solutions, ranging from emerging technologies to data and analytics strategies and intelligent automation, to address the end-to-end challenges of a tax department.
“We are excited to welcome Sam to our growing team at Ryan,” said Ryan President of U.S. Operations Damon Chronis. “Technology is advancing at an increasing rate, and the impact of this on the tax world is significant. Sam brings a proven track record of helping companies build tax departments of the future.”
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Prior to joining Ryan, Mr. Guevara was partner-in-charge of tax technology solutions and the U.S. indirect tax practice of a large public accounting firm. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing a team of automation specialists and data scientists focused on emerging technologies such as Alteryx, Tableau, and various robotic process automation (RPA)/cognitive automation solutions. Additionally, Mr. Guevara led the transaction tax systems group, which managed third-party integration for various indirect tax systems with enterprise resource planning (ERP) financial reporting packages specializing in working with Oracle and SAP. Mr. Guevara also previously served as the partner-in-charge of the national compliance center and was responsible for the technology systems that supported the practice.
Mr. Guevara was a senior tax auditor with the California State Board of Equalization prior to joining public accounting, primarily conducting sales and use tax field audits of complex taxpayers in a variety of industries. He received a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of San Diego.
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