What happens when a chemical engineer ends up arguing tax law in front of judges, then spends a career deciding what KPMG's tax data should look like next?John Modzelewski is Chief Data Officer, Tax at KPMG, where he leads the firm's Ignition practice.
What happens when a tax professional on the partnership track walks away to spend his days teaching AI models the work he spent a decade mastering?Brendan Ryan is an AI tutor working with xAI's human data group, where he helps train frontier models on finance and accounting knowledge.
What does it take to build a new general ledger from scratch when the two incumbents have owned the category for over thirty years?Jeff Seibert is the founder and CEO of Digits, an AI native accounting platform going head to head with QuickBooks and Xero.
What happens to an accounting firm's identity when its managing partner gets four weeks notice to step into the role?Wayne is the managing partner of Haskell and White, a Southern California accounting firm.
What does it actually take to convince an industry built on trust and referrals to adopt something new, and why do three founders attacking completely different parts of the accounting workflow keep arriving at the same lessons about how this profession actually buys?This episode brings together Dan Berenholtz, cofounder and CEO of Stanford Tax, Jordan Vickery, cofounder of Vinyl, and Andrew Rea, cofounder and CEO of Taxwire, for a wide ranging conversation on building software for accountants.
What happens when a region skips straight from having no tax system at all to running some of the most advanced real time reporting in the world? Eoin Fitzgerald has spent his career answering that question from the inside, and this episode digs into why the GCC's compliance future looks nothing like anywhere else.Eoin currently leads tax at Keeyns in the UAE, building out a function from the ground up in a market where tax as a concept did not exist eight years ago.
What happens when two venture capitalists trade a fund for a product roadmap, and a bootstrapped founder becomes one of the accounting industry's most trusted vendors without ever raising outside money?This episode of Bizora Brews' Accounting Founder Series brings together three builders reshaping the accounting tech stack from three different angles.