Suzanne Cummings Email and Phone Number

· Senior member of the Global Tax Planning team responsible for advising business leaders, all tax aspects of M&A transactions and leading strategic tax planning projects. · Tax Business Partner for Datacenter Infrastructure Planning, Supply Chain Operations and Hardware. Pro-actively collaborate with and provide salient advice to key stakeholders and business partners in relation to diverse range of business objectives including deployment of new products, new and refinement of datacenters, expansion and reorganization of supply chain processes, and integration of acquired businesses and asset reutilization. Identify and maximize opportunities for tax-related savings, minimize tax-related risks, and ensure the alignment of the business strategies and objectives to the to the company’s overall tax strategies and structures.· Completed 14+ US and non-US M&A transactions, including legal restructuring, operational integration and the integration of acquired intellectual properties. · Examples of the range of technical tax issues addressed and managed: reorganizations, US international (GILTI, FIDI, BEAT, subpart F, FTC, ECI, etc.), tax attribute analysis (e.g., 382), key elections (e.g., 338(g)), compensation (409A, 901(m), 83(b)), and non-income based taxes (sales and use, VAT, etc.)

• Responsible for all US international and non-US tax planning strategies• Directed and managed all foreign tax related activities• Leadership role in two major legal and operational post-acquisition reorganization and integration.• Lead and managed all US-international and foreign tax controversy related projects• Responsible for all U.S. compliance requirements related to the non-US entities • Improved and maintained all transfer pricing policies and documentation• Revamped and streamlined the international components of the quarterly and annual calculation of the world- wide effective tax rate • Supervised a team of direct and indirect reports and contractors including managing their day-to- day workflow, prioritization of work, career development and technical education

• Responsible for all US tax planning strategies• Responsible for managing all foreign tax related activities for the Asia Pacific and Americas regions• Responsible for transfer pricing policies and documentation for the US, Asia and Americas regions including the management of pursing new and maintaining existing Advanced Pricing Agreements• Provided high quality, timely and effective support of the tax department’s global business partners• Supported Director of Tax Reporting and his team • Member of the leadership team of the Global Tax & Treasuring group

Advise and assist clients with a wide range of international tax planning strategies, compliance and audit requirements including:»Utilization of strategies such as Offshore Trading Company and Intellectual Property migration, cash repatriation and financing, integration planning of target’s highly appreciated assets, post-acquisition integration and reorganizations»Assistance with all aspects of international tax planning including overall structural design, financial modeling, implementation and post-implementation operations review»Identification and management of a wide range of U.S. and foreign tax related issues based on the review of operations including subpart F, IRC §956, effectively connected income, permanent establishment and withholding taxClients included: Symantec, Applied Materials, Hyperion, Seagate Technology, Agilent, Adobe, Novellus Systems, Juniper Networks, BEA Systems, Informatica, NetIQ, Affymetrix, Netflix