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

Lynn Ames

Principal, CEO, 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

Nate Burt

Principal, 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!

Stephen Day

Stephen Day

Principal, CFO/COO

All VPTax Clients – Stephen serves VPTax so VPTax can better serve startups and their founders.

Fun Fact: When not serving his clients, Stephen can be found up the canyons of Utah on his motorcycle.

David Heap

David Heap

Principal, Chief Revenue Officer

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.

Tom Brehmer

Tom Brehmer

Founder, Principal, Board Member

Representative Clients – Gera Construction, The Valley Fund, Golden Whale Ventures

Fun Fact: Tom founded VPTax over 30 years ago — a true Silicon Valley veteran.

Todd Suchevits

Todd Suchevits

Principal, Board Member

All VPTax Clients – Todd’s leadership and service on the Board is invaluable!

Fun Fact: Todd is fluent in French, having lived and studied extensively in Belgium and France.

Adam Beasley

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!

Ann O'Neal

Ann O'Neal

Tax Director (East Coast)

Representative Clients – Exponential, Arthur AI, BabyQuip, Health Gorilla, Instawork, Teampay

Fun Fact: Ann is an avid gardener. When she isn’t working, you’ll find her playing in her flower beds!
Darren Jensen

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

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

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…).

Dave Brehmer

Dave Brehmer

Director, Operations & Finance

All VPTax Clients – VPTax believes that Tax Directors are meant to do taxes and Dave and his team handle the rest.

Fun Fact: Dave makes the best Buffalo wings west of… well, west of Buffalo!

Mila Pandit

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.

Join The VPTax Team

Join The VPTax Team

Interested in joining the team? VPTax is always looking for motivated and qualified team members. To do taxes differently we need people who think outside the box and like to problem solve. If we are speaking your language then check out our open positions.

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