Clay Ayers Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Virginia, Us

K2M Group Holdings, Inc. is a global medical device company focused on designing, developing and commercializing innovative complex spine and minimally invasive spine technologies and techniques used by spine surgeons to treat some of the most difficult and challenging spinal pathologies. K2M's technologies and techniques, in combination with a robust product pipeline, enables the company to favorably compete in the global spinal surgery market.As head of tax my objective is to develop, implement and maintain an organization that can preserve and mobalize cash on a global basis through the use of sustainable and scalable tax planning.

Serco North America contracts with all branches of the military, federal civilian agencies and state and provincial governments throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As the Americas division of an $8 billion UK based company, Serco North America employs 11,000+ employees around the world.As the head if Tax and Treasury my objectives were to preserve cash and maximize cash repatriation through the use of global tax planning. - Global Tax Management o Cash Repatriation/Cash Mobilization o US and Foreign Withholding Taxes o Transfer Pricing o Foreign Tax Credit Utilization o Entity Structuring and Rationalization o Employee Mobilization o Permanent Establishment- US and Canadian Income Tax Compliance- US and Canadian Income Tax Audit Defense- US, Canadian and European VAT/Sales Tax- Federal and State Credits and Incentives

Watson Wyatt had $1.8 billion in global revenues, operations in all major countries throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas and was a publicly traded company NYSE: WW. As head of tax at Watson Wyatt for five years the company grew three fold in revenues, employee base and tax jurisdictions via multiple acquisitions throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. Extensive use of my strengths in transfer pricing, audit defense and tax-driven financing structures geared to minimize tax and mobilize cash on a global basis.

As the head of tax I was responsible for building the company’s first tax department and implementing policies, procedures, tax compliance systems and tax planning strategies considered necessary for a fast growing global start-up. Some of my most rewarding experiences at webMethods included structuring and implementing the company’s application development operations in China and India from an income tax perspective. These projects provided an opportunity for me to work directly with foreign governments and local advisers to maximize corporate tax incentives during an incredibly fast growing era for the US high tech industry.

As head of tax I was a member of the finance team that initially took the company public in June 1998 (NASDAQ: MSTR). I built the company’s first tax department and implemented the initial tax policies and procedures, tax compliance systems and deployment of global tax planning strategies. One of my most rewarding experiences at MicroStrategy was the implementation a global software distributor network designed to minimize global cash tax and maximize cash mobilization. This highly visible project required cross-functional management skills to be implemented successfully on budget and in a timely and efficient manner.

WorldCorp was a publicly traded holding company that majority owned the international airline World Airways and technology company US Order. Both publicly traded companies as well.My responsibilities as the manager of tax and reporting to the CFO was all aspects of US tax compliance and accounting of income taxes under US GAAP.

As an associate and senior associate at Arthur Andersen I assisted clients in all aspects of income tax compliance and accounting for income taxes in US GAAP.

Ms-Taxation, Taxation

Bs-Accounting, Accounting And Finance