Syed Sajjad Qamar
President Lifetime
Experience
Sajjad works as a Senior Director of International Tax for a global professional services firm with 48,000 professionals and 820 worldwide offices in 120 countries. Prior to this Sajjad worked as Managing Director of International Tax for BDO USA LLP. In addition, he has 15 years of experience working with Big 4 (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Ernst & Young LLP), advising hedge funds, private equity, pension funds, sovereign wealth, mutual funds, insurance companies, international banks and large multinationals.
Sajjad primarily focuses on inbound and outbound taxation of asset management and financial services clients. Sajjad has worked on variety of large tax consulting projects including onshore/offshore master/feeder structuring, US trade or business analysis, tax considerations at the level of portfolio company/investments, double tax treaty planning & analysis, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, earnings and profits studies, computation of foreign tax credits, and planning & compliance considerations with respect to US anti-deferral regimes such as global intangible low-tax income (GILTI), Subpart F and passive foreign investment companies (PFICs).
Previously, Sajjad worked for over four and half years with NASDAQ-AMEX Stock Market Group as Lead Financial Analyst focused on financial analysis and due-diligence of companies who applied for initial public offerings (IPOs) and secondary listings on the stock exchange.
Industry Focus
Asset Management and Financial Services
Education
- Master of Science in Taxation (MST), Fordham University, New York
- Graduate Certificate Program in Accounting and Taxation, Fordham University, New York
- M.A., Economics, American University, Washington D.C.
- M.B.A. Finance, Aalto University School of Business (fka Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration), Helsinki, Finland
- M.B.A., University of Central Punjab (UCP) (fka Punjab College of Business Administration), Lahore, Pakistan
- B.A., Economics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Community Involvement and Services
- Mentor and Frequent Guest Speaker, YearUp
- Former Co-Treasurer, The Parents Association of P.S. 144
- Former Board Member, COOP Board