Holger Sedlmaier is a German Lawyer and Head of Tax and Pensions at BVI Bundesverband Investment and Asset Management. In 2001, he started his career in the tax department of a Big Four and advised German and foreign asset managers on German regulatory and tax law.

Since 2005, he has worked for the BVI which represents the interests of the German fund industry at national and international level. BVI’s 117 members manage assets of some EUR 4 trillion for retail investors, insurance companies, pension and retirement schemes, banks, churches and foundations. With a share of 27%, Germany represents the largest fund market in the EU. Holger is responsible at the BVI for all tax matters relating to German investment funds and their investors.

Judith graduated in European Business and Law from the University of Siegen, Germany.

She is actively involved in various industry associations, including the Tax Steering Committee of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI), the tax committee of the German fund association (BVI) and the EFAMA Taxation & Accounting Committee.

Katja Pussila works as a Risk Manager at the Finnish Tax Administration. She is responsible for Tax Administration's risk-based guiding and control measures on yield payments. She is an OECD TRACE Model expert with a broad background in cross-border withholding tax issues - all the way from the withholding to the relief at source and refund claims. She has been involved with the TRACE implementation from the very beginning. Katja Pussila has a Master's Degree in Law from the University of Helsinki.

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Wolfgang Göb is responsible for strategic and substantive questions of SDS customers with regard to the software product portfolio of SDS. He holds a PhD in physics, and since 2000, he has been working in the software industry for the financial sector. Over the past years, he has led and participated in numerous development initiatives for standard software for securities settlement, asset servicing and custody, with a focus on regulatory topics. Furthermore, Wolfgang provides his expertise within SDS regarding the implementation of new technologies in software products for the securities industry.

Steffen Gnutzmann is a partner at WTS Germany.

A lawyer by education, Steffen has more than 20 years of experience in advising the international Financial Services industry on cross-border tax and regulatory topics. He focuses on investment funds, hedge funds and private equity funds, their asset managers and investors, their administrators and software providers, as well as German and foreign banks. Tax law and the digitalisation in the FS industry has been one of his main areas of interest from the start.