Faculty with sabbatical/internship experience will be discussion leaders at luncheon tables.

Committee Member: Linda Nelsestuen (New Orleans)

Barry Broden, Hartford, broden@hartford.edu. Balancing tax consulting with teaching and research for 37 years.

Dennis Gaffney, LeMoyne College, DGaff0478@aol.com. IRS National Office, Professor in Residence, Accounting periods and methods group.

Sanjay Gupta, Arizona State, Sanjay.Gupta@asu.edu. KPMG– Worked on state and local tax issues developing position papers for state legislative changes and in-house instructional materials.

Philip Harmelink, New Orleans, pharmeli@uno.edu. IRS Research Division, Faculty Intern.

Kenneth Heller, George Mason, kheller@gmu.edu. (1) Tax Manager at Ernst & Young National Office in Washington DC and (2) Senior tax manager at Andersen in Chicago.

Larry Kowalski, Bowling Green State, lkowals@cba.bgsu.edu. Internet service company CFO with heavy responsibilities in the tax area.

Alan Macnaughton, Waterloo, amacnaug@uwaterloo.ca. Director of Personal Income Tax for Canada's Department of Finance - Supervised a group responsible for the personal income tax portion of the annual budget and analysis of possible proposals to the income tax system.

Gary McGill, Florida, gary.mcgill@cba.ufl.edu. Price Waterhouse Visiting Tax Research Professor in New York City - worked on academic research projects and on the design and delivery of the firm’s tax curriculum.

John McGowan, St. Louis, mcgowanjr@slu.edu. Private corporation under the guidance of Ernst & Young - performed 17 transfer pricing studies.

Cherie O’Neil, Colorado State, cherie.oneil@business.colostate.edu. (1) Andersen, St. Charles and Washington D.C.. (2) Tampa CPA firm – worked on closely-held corporations. (3) IRS in Washington D.C - worked on non-filer and worker compensation issues.

Tom Pope, Kentucky, tpope@pop.uky.edu. Ernst &Young National Office in Washington DC – assisted in tax training, attended hearings of the House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Finance Committee, and Joint Conference Committee, and assisted practice offices with complex tax issues.

Roby Sawyers, North Carolina State, roby_sawyers@ncsu.edu. AICPA Tax Division, Washington D.C. - Drafted testimony and comments to the Treasury, Senate Finance Committee, and the House Ways and Means Committee.

Marty Wartick, Northern Iowa, marty.wartick@uni.edu. Regional firm internship – worked with flow-through entities.

Steve Wells, Alcorn State, steve@lorman.alcorn.edu. Two terms on the Mississippi Legislature - served as the Chairman of the Revenue Committee in the Ways and Means Committee and also served on a Select Joint Committee whose mission was to study the Mississippi tax structure.