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Hank Moonen and Raj Balgobind combine complementary careers across corporate tax leadership, advisory, technology, product development and transformation. Together, they understand the choices not only as advisers, but as buyers, users, builders, vendors and implementation leaders.

Hank Moonen

Owner, TaxModel Services B.V.

Hank brings more than 25 years of tax experience across senior corporate tax leadership, advisory and entrepreneurship. As founder and CEO of TaxModel, he built and scaled an international tax software business through product development, SaaS commercialisation, private-equity investment and acquisition by Tax Systems. His perspective connects tax substance with the realities of choosing, building, buying, selling and adopting tax technology.

Earlier in his career he was Head of Tax at Stahl, held international tax roles at PwC and ABN AMRO, and advised private-equity-backed multinationals on post-merger tax integration. He holds a master’s degree in Dutch civil law from Utrecht University and a postdoctoral degree in tax law from the University of Amsterdam.

Former Head of Tax and senior adviser
Founder and CEO perspective in tax technology and SaaS
Experience across international growth, private equity and acquisition
Credible buyer and vendor perspective on tax technology decisions

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Raj Balgobind

Tax Technology & Transformation Director

Raj works at the intersection of tax, finance and technology. An international direct tax specialist turned tax technology and transformation lead, he brings more than 20 years across tax, finance and technology, and has served over 15 multinationals and institutions. He helps groups design and deliver scalable tax operating models across process, data, technology and people, including automation, advanced analytics and AI, from strategy through to delivery.

Most recently he was Ireland lead for Direct Tax Technology & Transformation at PwC, where he led the tax practice’s AI capability, and he now directs the tax technology practice of Tax, IT & Finance Synergy in Dublin. Before that he led the Pillar Two implementation and redesigned global tax accounting and reporting at LGT Bank in Zurich, and delivered tax technology programmes for Naspers & Prosus, HEINEKEN and VodafoneZiggo. He began his career as a tax lawyer.

Raj holds master’s degrees in tax law (LL.M.) and social science from the University of Groningen, an Executive Master in Finance & Control from Nyenrode Business University, and is a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA). He completed executive programmes at Harvard Business School and INSEAD, and is a member of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisers (NOB).

Tax operating model design, from strategy to delivery
Pillar Two, tax accounting, provisioning and global reporting
Hands-on with OneStream, ONESOURCE, SAP, Oracle, Azure, Power BI, Alteryx and UiPath
Practical AI and agentic AI in tax

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Why the combination works

Independent judgement from lived experience

Perspective	Why it matters to you
Tax leadership	We recognise the operational pressures, stakeholder expectations and judgement calls inside a tax function.
Product and vendor	We understand how software is conceived, sold and implemented, and can challenge claims and fit.
Transformation delivery	We know what it takes to move from a design to new processes, roles, data and ways of working.
Corporate and advisory	We can translate between management, tax, finance, IT, vendors and external advisers.
Strategy and execution	We connect long-term direction to realistic next actions, ownership and sequencing.

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