
He began by asking technologists plain questions. Two decades later, the former reporter is still doing the same work - only now the subject is global tax compliance, and the newsroom is a marketing organization.

The april co-founder spent years learning how financial infrastructure gets built. Now he is trying to make taxes a quiet, year-round feature of the apps where people already manage their money.

He built a 3,500-client accounting practice, sold it, then started over with a harder idea: turn the lonely back office of self-employment into a system that plans all year.

A transfer pricing specialist saw multinationals wrestling with spreadsheets, consultants and intercompany debt. His answer was a narrow piece of software with unusually large consequences.
Multinationals move billions between their own subsidiaries, then have to prove the price was fair. TP Accurate turned that awkward spreadsheet ritual into software - and found its exit inside Alphatax’s tax operating system.

Before he became Anrok's CEO, Brad Silicani learned to make accountants, engineers and sales teams understand one another. His career is a lesson in turning narrow expertise into operating range.
CPA.com does not merely sell accountants software. It helps decide which tools, methods and business models become part of the profession's next operating system.

From a three-note tax jingle to an AI-enabled national brand, Alicia Chrapaty has built a career by making complicated products feel human - while keeping one eye on the story and the other on the numbers.
OLarry is an AI-powered, year-round tax firm built for high-net-worth individuals, founders, and businesses. It pairs certified public accountants with proprietary AI that handles document collection, data classification, and extraction, so its CPAs can focus on proactive, strategic tax planning rather than paperwork. Sold as a flat annual membership, OLarry aims to bring the kind of always-on tax advice once reserved for the ultra-wealthy to thousands of clients across the United States.

Lindsey Argalas is the CEO of TaxBit, the leading enterprise-grade crypto tax and accounting platform, where she leads the company's mission to bring regulatory trust to the digital asset economy. With 25+ years across global FinTech, SaaS, and consumer companies — spanning Intuit, Banco Santander, and Boston Consulting Group — she brings rare cross-disciplinary depth to one of the most complex intersections in finance: crypto meets compliance. A Duke-Kellogg-Georgetown polyglot who has run businesses on four continents, Argalas took the CEO helm in June 2023 and has since positioned TaxBit as the compliance infrastructure layer for governments, enterprises, and digital asset brokers worldwide.