Podcasts

Shari Dodgen is the Director of Strategic Relationships and Product Marketing for Mid/large firms at Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting North America. She is responsible for defining the overall product marketing strategy for the company’s award-winning professional software products, as well as building and expanding strategic relationships with professional associations and accounting organizations to drive increased value to individual firms.

In addition to her 12 years as publisher of Cygnus Business Media’s CPA Technology Advisor, Shari has extensive experience developing integrated custom media programs and expertise in business-to-business communications, including strategic planning, partnership development, program execution, marketing and sales.

Jim McGinnis is EVP and General Manager for the Professional Market of Wolters Kluwer’s Tax and Accounting North America business unit. In this role, he is responsible for the CCH solutions including CCH Axcess Suite, CCH ProSystem fx as well as ATX Professional Tax.
Prior to Wolters Kluwer, Jim held a variety of roles as Vice President at Intuit including marketing for the then Accountant’s Professional Division, leader of the Accountant Segment for QuickBooks, and Product Management for Lacerte and ProSeries.

Amanda Wilkie, a consultant at Boomer Consulting, Inc., has a computer science background, but she’s not your average geek. With two decades of technology experience, Amanda has spent 13 years driving change and process improvement through innovative technology solutions working across firms of varying sizes in the public accounting profession. She has held strategic leadership positions in firms ranging from Top 50 to Top 10 including her most recent role as CIO of a Top 30 firm. Wilkie is a recognized expert in the profession who regularly speaks and writes on blockchain and cryptocurrency and their impact on the profession.

With most workers unable to cover a short-term financial emergency, benefits experts have some ideas for how employers can encourage contributions to rainy-day funds.

Juan Pablo Segura is the co-founder of Babyscripts.

Declan O’Neill is EVP Product & Data at Munich Re Automation Solutions

When resigning employees return company cell phones and computers, they may not have logged out of personal email accounts. An attorney tells employers why they shouldn't read those messages.

Taylor Eric White is a senior counselor at Foley & Lardner LLP.

n4one HR and Benefits co-founder Joe Markland seeks to do for the employee benefits and HCM space what Southwest Airlines did for commercial aviation.