Meet Your Tax Department
- Tax Directors with 300 years’ of combined experience,
- Ops team dedicated to precision delivery,
- Staff focused on accurate/timely compliance, and
- Expertise in corporate federal and state income tax, sales and use tax, property tax, unclaimed property, audit defense, etc., etc…
VPTax is your ready-made tax department.
Lynn Ames
Partner, Founders' Services Lead
Representative Clients – Infinite Commerce Holdings, AK Masonry & Concrete, Correlium
Fun Fact: Lynn is an avid golfer and has made not 1, not 2, but 3 holes-in-one while pursuing his passion.
Nate Burt
Partner, EVP, Corporate Tax Lead
Representative Clients – Current Lighting, Teamworks Innovations, Machinify AI
Fun Fact: When Nate isn’t calc’ing R&D credits, you may find him on stage at the community theatre!
David Heap
Principal, Senior Director of Sales and Marketing
Prospective VPTax Clients – David drives VPTax’s growth by building our referral partner network.
Fun Fact: David enjoys cycling, pickleball, DIY projects around the house, and anything that involves his children and grandchildren.
Adam Beasley
Tax Director (Mountain West)
Representative Clients – Reviva Pharmaceuticals, Pique Tea, Outschool, Cora and HiSmile
Fun Fact: Adam is a huge fan of heavy metal music and plays the drums like a true metalhead!
Darren Jensen
Tax Director (Mountain West)
Representative Clients – Aclima, Bioelectronica, DripDrop Hydration, Phunware, Skuchain
Fun Fact: In his free time, you’ll find Darren cooking or playing tennis!
Gilbert Diaz
Tax Director (SSW), Indirect Tax Specialist
Representative Clients – AppDirect, Lucky Beverage, Observa Technology, Visionable
Fun Fact: Gilbert lives near the location of the final shootout in “Breaking Bad” and the site of the world’s largest hot-air balloon festival.
Johnathon Waters
Tax Director (PNW), Indirect Tax Specialist
Representative Clients – The RealReal, Incyte Corp, Provable, Inc., Wandera, Vistar Energy
Fun Fact: Johnathon enjoys skiing and playing board games (the kind that have appendixes in the rule book…).
Mila Pandit
Team Lead, Tax Processing Center
All VPTax Clients – Mila and her India-based processing team support virtually every VPTax client.
Fun Fact: When she’s not doing great things at VPTax, Mila is dancing! She is skilled in three forms of dance – Bollywood, Raks Sharqi and Kathak.
