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Michael Ching
BS in Accounting, MS in Taxation

Senior Director Corporate Tax
Gilead Sciences
333 Lakeside Drive
Foster City, California 94404

650 522 5651 PHONE
408 568 4379 MOBILE

Professional Organizations
BIO; Tax Executives Institute

Background
Michael has over 25 years of experience specializing in the worldwide taxation of corporations including the areas of international tax, US tax, state tax, transfer pricing, IRS and international audit resolution, accounting for income taxes and mergers and acquisitions. Michael spent 15 years with two of the big four accounting firms, Deloitte and Ernst & Young. Prior to joining Gilead, Michael was the Corporate Tax Director of Handspring, Inc.

Company Profile
Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. Gilead's mission is to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Gilead has over 4,000 employees with operations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. During Michael's tenure at Gilead the company has grown from $400 million in worldwide revenues to a projected $8 billion in worldwide revenues in 2011.

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