Dan Burt, Chairman & General Counsel
London, England
Dan Burt is a founder of Compliance Technologies International, LLP. He has forty plus years of international business and legal experience. Prior to founding CTI, Mr. Burt founded Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP , a successful boutique international tax law firm specializing in every aspect of U.S. and international taxation of large, publicly held foreign and U.S. corporations.
Mr. Burt specialized in U.S. taxation of international operations immediately upon graduating from Yale Law School in 1969. He was an Attorney-Advisor to the International Tax Counsel to the U.S. Treasury and then the Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Tax.
Mr. Burt taught at Boston University Law School (1973-1974) and consulted for Deloitte & Touche, LLP on international tax in their New York office (1973-1975) after leaving the Treasury, then formed his first law firm specializing in international taxation in 1975. He again entered to public service in 1980, returning later to private practice in 1986 when he founded Burt, Maner & Miller (now Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP).
Education & CredentialsBA – LaSalle University (1964) |
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Honorary Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge
John M. Staples, Executive Director
Washington, DC
John Staples is a founder of Compliance Technologies International, LLP. His plan was to bring his many years of Internal Revenue Service and international tax experience together with a team of highly qualified legal, tax, operations, and software development professionals to create end to end solutions for financial institutions and multi-national corporations.
John Staples joined Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP in 2003 as the Managing Partner of the U.S. office. Prior to joining Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP, Mr. Staples was the Associate Chief Counsel International of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The Office of Associate Chief Counsel International ("ACCI") provides advice to the IRS and U.S. Treasury Department on internationally related litigation, technical guidance such as regulations and rulings, advice to IRS field operations, private letter rulings, advice on U.S. tax treaties, U.S. positions in multi-national fora, and legislative proposals. He directed a staff of more than 120 attorneys, tax law specialists, program analysts and support employees, including the staff of the Advance Pricing Agreement ("APA") program. While Associate Chief Counsel (International), Mr. Staples personally oversaw the U.S. government's implementation of the section 1441 withholding tax regime. Mr. Staples currently represents many of the largest financial institutions and multi-nationals with respect to both domestic and non-resident alien withholding and reporting compliance and audit defense.
Before his appointment as Associate Chief Counsel (International) in January 2001, Mr. Staples served as the Acting Deputy Associate Chief Counsel (International-Technical) and as the Assistant Chief Counsel (International-Technical). In both positions, Mr. Staples had primary responsibility for managing the technical international tax program for the office. From June 1995 to February 1998, Mr. Staples served as Assistant to IRS Commissioner Richardson, where he advised the Commissioner on a wide array of issues, particularly international, financial products and financial institutions tax issues.
Prior to joining the IRS, Mr. Staples specialized in international taxation at Burt, Maner & Miller and the Washington D.C. office of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. He has extensively lectured and published on a wide array of international tax topics as part of both his government service and his private practice. Typical audiences include Bar groups, trade and banking associations, and industry groups. Mr. Staples has also presented private international tax training seminars for his clients.
Mr. Staples is frequently contacted by the tax press for his views on international tax developments.
Education & CredentialsBA – Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (1982) |
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For a list of speeches and publications presented by Mr. Staples, please click on the following link.
Cyrus Daftary, Executive Director
Boston, MA
Cyrus Daftary is a founder of Compliance Technologies International, LLP. His many years of electronic commerce, international business and legal experience enable him to address the problems associated with compliance obligations and implement operational, systemic processes, outsourcing, and IT solutions to ensure prospective compliance with these rules.
Mr. Daftary is also a partner at Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP specializing in international taxation and regulatory compliance. He has extensive experience with the United States withholding and reporting rules for U.S. and non-U.S. persons, as well as the U.S. Patriot Act and various anti-money laundering regimes, the European Savings Directive, and e-commerce issues.
Prior to founding CTI, Mr. Daftary was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, where he led the Information Withholding and Reporting group within the Tax and Advisory Practices. He specialized in information withholding and reporting and tax technology related solutions and consulted with multi-national corporations and financial services institutions regarding their tax technical, operational and systemic compliance around the 1441 regulations. Prior to this position, Cyrus served as the Chief Technology Officer for PwC's Tax Practice and led the Firm's Financial Services Tax Technology Consulting Practice.
Mr. Daftary has lectured and published extensively in the areas of anti-money laundering, the European Savings Directive, international withholding and reporting, tax technology, and e-commerce topics as a part of both his academic and private practice. He is a co-author of three editions of the E-Business Legal Handbook, and has taught courses on cyber-law, Internet taxation and e-commerce as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University School of Law, Northeastern University's Master of Taxation program and Suffolk University's Frank Sawyer School of Business.
For a list of speeches and publications presented by Mr. Daftary, please click on the following link.
Education & CredentialsBA – Indiana University (1990) |
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Jayne Alfano, Chief Executive Officer
Boston, MA
Jayne Alfano is Chief Executive Officer of Compliance Technologies International, LLP. Ms. Alfano manages all operational functions at CTI in addition to providing tax technical advice to financial institutions and multi-national corporations regarding the information return reporting and tax withholding rules applicable to financial instruments and payments of income. Ms. Alfano is also a member of the core group that developed CTI's tax technology solutions at PwC and is responsible for the tax technical content and logic in the applications. Ms. Alfano assists clients with the design, evaluation and implementation of computer tax programs to support corporate tax needs. She brings more than twenty-five years experience in the financial services industry and with multi-national corporations as a domestic and non-resident alien tax withholding and information return reporting specialist. She also remains the Director of the Legal Support Group at Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP, where she uses her experience to assist as a domestic and non-resident alien tax withholding and information return reporting specialist.
Prior to joining CTI, Ms. Alfano was a Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in the Financial Industry Tax Practice Boston Office and co-leader of the Information Return Reporting and Tax Withholding Practice. During her nine year tenure with PwC from 1998 to 2007, she advised clients on the tax technical and operational aspects of implementing the domestic and cross-border tax withholding and information return reporting rules. She guided many U.S. withholding agents through the IRS' 1441 Voluntary Compliance Program.
Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ms. Alfano was Vice President at State Street Bank and Trust Company, where she was primarily responsible for monitoring information return reporting compliance and providing tax technical support for its information return reporting and tax withholding activities worldwide.
For a list of speeches and publications presented by Ms. Alfano, please click on the following link.
Education & CredentialsBA – Daemen College (1970) |
Jill Dymtrow, Vice President
Los Angeles, CA
Jill Dymtrow joined Compliance Technologies International, LLP to provide additional strength to the firm's tax technical and accounting efforts. Prior to joining CTI, Ms. Dymtrow was a leader in the Legal Support Group of Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP, where she brought years of experience working with U.S. withholding agents and Qualified Intermediaries on compliance with Section 1441 rules.
Prior to joining Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP, Ms. Dymtrow specialized in information reporting and withholding as a manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. Ms. Dymtrow began her career at PwC working in Tax for the Banking Group. In 2001, she began working with Qualified Intermediaries in preparation for the QI Audit cycle in 2002. She worked with foreign PwC offices and their clients to train them in QI compliance, withholding and reporting requirements, handling technical issues and working on QI audits. In the spring of 2003, Ms. Dymtrow began working with U.S. withholding agents on Section 1441 compliance matters similar to those that affected the QIs. She took a number of U.S. withholding agents through the Voluntary Compliance Program. Her work has involved large U.S. financial institutions, as well as energy, pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Ms. Dymtrow was also a member of the core group that developed PwC's tax technology solutions.
For a list of speeches and publications presented by Ms. Dymtrow, please click on the following link.
Education & CredentialsBS – University of Florida (2000) (Honors Program) |
Nazeem Issac, Vice President of Applied Technologies
Boston, MA
Nazeem Issac is the Vice President of Applied Technologies and is responsible for the development, evaluation and oversight of all new and existing applied technologies including program and research design, budgets, support, development and implementation. Mr. Issac drives the planning and implementation of programming and research undertaken by CTI to meet strategic goals.
Mr. Issac brings twelve years of experience in information technology, in addition to many years of practice in tax and finance. Prior to joining CTI, Mr. Issac was a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP's Boston Office, in the Financial Industry Technology Practice. During his tenure at PwC, he helped to design and develop software applications for clients in both the Banking and Real Estate industries. He was a member of the core 1441 Compliance Solutions team and assisted in the designing and development of software components. Mr. Issac has also worked in the design and development of software for the Aviation Industry.
Mr. Issac received a Degree with Distinction in Engineering from the University of Kerala (India). He is a certified ISO 9001 Internal Auditor with experience in systemic, management, resource, realization and remedial auditing.
Education & CredentialsB. Tech with Distinction in Engineering from University of Kerala (India) |
William Fernandez, Vice President & Legal Counsel
Boston, MA
William Fernandez joined Compliance Technologies International, LLP as Legal Counsel to provide additional strength to the Firm's legal, consulting, and technology efforts. Mr. Fernandez is also Of Counsel to Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP. Prior to his association with Compliance Technologies International, LLP and Burt, Staples & Maner, LLP, Mr. Fernandez was an associate in both the Tax and Advisory practices of Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP. Mr. Fernandez specialized in international tax withholding and reporting issues and advised major financial and banking institutions on compliance issues.
Prior to PwC, Mr. Fernandez served as a litigation attorney for a large Boston based law firm and a private healthcare company. Additionally, Mr. Fernandez was an associate at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeult, LLP (dissolved March 2005), a large Boston law firm. At Testa, Mr. Fernandez worked in both the Litigation and Business law practices representing clients in a variety of areas including: security cases, contract disputes, private offerings, initial public offerings, mergers, and SEC compliance (including the Investment Advisor Act of 1940).
Education & CredentialsBS - Florida State University (2001) (Summa Cum
Laude) |
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