Vertex Inc. Appoints Akram El-Rikabi as Head European Operations
January 22, 2018 at 03:53 am
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Vertex Inc. announced Akram El-Rikabi has joined the management team as the regional leader to head European operations. This announcement reflects the company’s growing global presence in the European marketplace and dedication to the international business community. El-Rikabi brings 20 years of experience in finance, economics, banking, global partnerships and software management, having worked with global corporations in over 20 countries. Most recently, El-Rikabi was the regional sales leader for NICE Actimize Ltd. and responsible for strategic territory development and customer service and satisfaction with a focus on fraud prevention, compliance management and anti-financial crime. He is a graduate economist of Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg.
Vertex, Inc. is a global provider of indirect tax software and solutions. The Company operates as a solution provider of state, local and value-added tax calculation, compliance and analytics, offering software products which are sold through software license and software as a service (cloud) subscription. It also provides implementation and training services in connection with its software license and cloud subscriptions, transaction tax returns outsourcing and other tax-related services. The Company offers a range of solutions, including tax determination, compliance and reporting, tax data management, document management, analytics and insights, industry-specific solutions, pre-built integrations, implementation services, and managed services. Its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities leverage proprietary and private large language models (LLM) to deliver generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) capabilities to maintain a framework that increases the accuracy for tax compliance.
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