John Connor

John began as a tax auditor with the California Franchise Tax Board, where he focused on residency determinations, unitary taxation of businesses, and income taxation of estates, trusts, and their beneficiaries.

He left the FTB to become a senior tax manager at Arthur Andersen, where he headed the Orange County State & Local Tax (SALT) practice. He served a variety of midsized to large private and public companies, specializing in income, sales, and property taxation of businesses with multi-jurisdictional contacts. He also consulted on personal tax residency matters and handled tax audit defense.

After that, he spent the next 30 years in private industry, eventually heading tax departments at several mid- to large-cap Orange County-based public companies. His work in private industry had a particular emphasis on transactional structuring, financial accounting for income taxes, and tax and financial reporting aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions and of stock-based compensation.