Meet the Team

End-to-End Tax & Accounting Platform
built by Industry Professionals
John McGowan
CEO
After 25+ years driving technology innovation & investment at Deloitte and KPMG, John launched a tax technology consultancy to develop next-generation solutions to modernize standard tax preparation processes. John then launched HubSync with the goal of changing how tax professionals work and how clients interact with CPA firms.

Prior to HubSync, John was the Partner-in-Charge of Tax Technology at Deloitte developing sophisticated Tax applications and platforms. He managed a team of technologists using the latest software engineering techniques and architectures to deliver business value and drive digital transformation. John started his career at KPMG where he was the Global Chief Information Officer and managed a technology team of over 500 professionals along with over 300+ vendor resources.

John has a BSBA and Masters of Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Betsy Weissman
CMO
Betsy has over 25 years experience in the tax & accounting industry, starting her career at KPMG in the State & Local Tax Practice.

As Senior Manager in the Washington DC National office, she overaw the development of many technology tools built for the entire US tax practice. Next at CCH, she was the Director in Charge of Innovation for North America.

Betsy has a BA in Finance/Political Science from Penn State University and a Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University.
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Betsy has a BA in Finance/Political Science from Penn State University and a Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University
Tiffany Roussel
Senior Product Manager
Tiffany brings over 9 years of technology experience in the accounting and tax industry to HubSync. She was previously a business application manager for Honkamp Krueger & Co., P.C. where she led many firm-wide technology efforts.

As of recent, Tiffany was a lead technology product manager for Wolters Kluwer. In her role, she was dedicated to the needs and priorities of large firms for tax technology.Tiffany serves as a senior product manager at HubSync, helping to define requirements and build out new capabilities in the platform.

Tiffany is a graduate from the University of Iowa with a BA in Communication Studies. In addition, she is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and a certified Technical Product Manager.
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Tiffany is a graduate from the University of Iowa with a BA in Communication Studies. In addition, she is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and a certified Technical Product Manager.
Payton Baran
Customer Success Leader
Payton has over 15 years of experience supporting innovation at professional services firms. He studied finance at Virginia Tech and practiced as a financial statement auditor for over six years in the Washington, DC area. In 2012, Payton founded LegalConfirm to expedite a globally required audit procedure. The business was acquired by Nashville-based Confirmation and is now part of Thomson Reuters' product suite.

He has hands-on experience developing and implementing global solutions and scaling customer-centric teams. At HubSync, client experience is paramount, and Payton leads our Customer Success team focused on fulfilling that promise to firms and their clients.
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Jennifer has an MBA from Pace University with a Masters in Business and Accounting
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Paul Madarasz
COO/CRO
Paul brings 30+ years of Software and Operational experience to HubSync. He has held C-Level roles in some of the largest companies in the Global 100, including President, AIG Technologies where he was responsible for Global Software and Technology Delivery for AIG’s 400+ operating units supporting 100,000+ Employees in 130+ countries; and COO of Siemens Business Services supporting technology deployment for over 1M+ end users in the Fortune 100 Marketplace.

Paul has also been President of two Software Product Engineering firms, bringing leading edge platforms to market for numerous household names in various industries. While North American GM for UST Global, Paul collaborated with John McGowan, when he was Global CIO at KPMG. In a span of 6+ years together they built a best-in-class Global Development center for KPMG with 150+ team members. Paul jumped at the chance to work with John in creating HubSync, believing his vision for an all-in-one digital, customer-centric platform would bring seismic transformational change to the Professional Services industry.

Paul is a graduate of Boston College with a BA in Marketing
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Paul is a graduate of Boston College with a BA in Marketing
Sarah Kleinfelter
Product Owner
Over her nearly 6 years consulting career, Sarah has worked with a variety of federal government clients, including the Department of Defence and most recently Department of State in International Security and Nonproliferation, Technology Division (ISN/TD).
Sarah has had many diverse roles to build her depth of experience. Her roles primarily focused on creating and building teams that are optimized to deliver fast, improving internal and external processes to align with best practices, providing tactical guidance and solutions for business change, and coordinating with Directors, Chief of Staff, and major stakeholders to ensure our bureau was strategically aligned.

Sarah is a graduate of George Mason University with a degree in Operations Management and Information Systems Management

Sarah is Certified Scrum Product Owner and ITIL Certified
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Sarah is a graduate of George Mason University with a degree in Operations Management and Information Systems Management

Sarah is Certified Scrum Product Owner and ITIL Certified
Victor Soskin
Senior Director of Engineering
Victor brings 24 years of Architecture/Full Stack Software Development experience to HubSync. He has vast credentials in Enterprise design, Development, and Implementation of complex, large-scale, high-availability software systems.

Victor has held numerous roles – including Head of Product Development as well as progressing through the spectrum of technical roles as developer and architect. His passion is delivering high impact, high availability, leading edge systems and has done so for the who’s who of corporate America – including driving transformation of major tax platforms for Deloitte where he met and worked with John McGowan in his role as CIO.

Victor is a graduate of Belarusian State University, where he also earned his Masters in Computer Science
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Victor is a graduate of Belarusian State University, where he also earned his Masters in Computer Science

A Significant Focus on Engineering

Current Team Strength - 60
23
Development Team
7
Technical
Leadership
2
Business
Analysis
8
Quality &
Automation
3
Infrastructure/
DevOps
5
Mobile
Developers
2
User
Experience
3
Product
Management

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