The US-UK Trade and Economic Relationship in a New Era Breakfast (Hosted By BAB New York)

DUNCAN EDWARDS, CEO
BritishAmerican Business, Inc.
 

Duncan Edwards is the chief executive of BritishAmerican Business, the leading transatlantic trade organization of some 500 companies, which has an ongoing mission to support policies and action which protect and enhance the environment for trade and investment in, and between, the USA and the UK; he is also the chief executive of the British American Business Council, the umbrella organization of more than 20 chapters across the USA and UK.

Prior to this, Duncan Edwards spent over 30 years as a media executive in London and New York of which 27 years were spent at the Hearst Corporation. His most recent role at Hearst was president and CEO of the international magazine and digital media company, a business with activities in more than 60 countries which he led to record levels through acquisition and organic growth.
Edwards is an experienced cross border negotiator and deal maker with experience of M&A and dealing with regulators in all major markets and a particular expertise (in addition to the UK and USA) on China and Russia which he has visited dozens of times. A British citizen, he currently lives in New York and Connecticut where he can often be found on long runs in the hills.
 

TOMMASO TODESCA
Executive Director with the International Product Specialist office, JPMorgan
 

Tommaso Todesca is an Executive Director with the International Product Specialist office at JPMorgan Chase in Los Angeles, responsible for JPMorgan’s Middle Market clients with US headquarters (within the West Region) and foreign subsidiaries. Tommaso has been working for JPMorgan for the last 2 years, and before that, he spent 13 years at Bank of America, working in London, UK, and then in Los Angeles since 2010. For most of his career, he worked mainly with European, Asian or Latin American operations of US multinational clients, advising them on local and global cash management, credit, FX and trade finance matters. Tommaso has a degree in International and Italian Law, and an MBA in International Business. He speaks Italian, German and Spanish, and has an extensive knowledge about JPMorgan’s international services and capabilities.

ZEY NASSER, Managing Director International Tax Services
E & Y
 

Zey Nasser provides tax structuring and planning advice for a wide variety of domestic and multi-national corporations. Zey has experience in acquisitions and dispositions, spin-offs, consolidated groups and foreign in-bound and outbound transactions.

Zey also has experience in hybrid and other financings and in representing issuers and underwriters in US and Euromarket offerings.  She has worked on a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including investment funds, carried interest and management co-investment arrangements, private equity investments and joint ventures.

Prior to joining our San Francisco office, Zey was a senior tax associate in the New York office of Clifford Chance, US LLP for five years.  Prior to that, Zey worked in the National Tax Department of Ernst & Young LLP for five years. She received her LL.M in taxation, on full scholarship, from Georgetown University Law Center.