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GameON: Finance 2009 attendees have the additional option to sign up for special 1X1 consultations with legal and tax experts. Positioning your company for investment? Need advice?
KPMG LLP Canada is part of a global networking of professional firms (KPMG International) providing audit, tax and advisory services.Spending more time managing your business rather than growing your business? Looking for more cash, access to government incentives, streamlined financial processes, and enhanced financial reporting or governance? Schedule a one-on-one meeting with professionals from KPMG during this year's GameON Finance Conference. With an extensive background in assisting private companies to grow, from start-up through to international expansion and going public, KPMG professionals can help you meet your objectives. Consider how to:
- Access and leverage various government incentives, including the digital media tax credit, IRAP, and others, to promote product innovation, research, development, and commercialization.
- Effectively structure investments in product and technology development for enhanced benefit and after-tax return on investment.
- Identify SR&ED eligibility in the not-so-obvious places.
- Prepare your company for evaluation by potential financers – VCs, PE, banks, and other investors.
- Develop your pitch and present your company/products to a VC.
- Wealth management and extraction strategies.
- Succession planning.
- Access new markets – selling into the US and abroad.
 Winnie Leung, Audit, Associate Partner
| Winnie Leung, Audit, Associate Partner,
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early-stage technology companies and specific knowledge of the interactive digital media and online gaming technology sector. She is heavily involved with InterActiveOntario and works with entrepreneurial companies to set up their financial governance and accounting frameworks. She also helps companies in preparing for their growth and exit strategies and has extensive experience in assisting companies in their IPO process. |  Santino Mariani, Tax Associate Partner
| Santino Mariani, Tax Associate Partner,
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With over seventeen years’ experience, Santino provides strategic tax advisory services to clients of all sizes with respect to managing their tax exposures, including cross-border structures, mergers and acquisitions, internal reorganizations, capital tax planning and corporate compliance. He is a founding member of KPMG's GTA Digital Media Group and works with gaming companies providing advice on financing, business structures, and tax incentives. | 
John Cho, Director ,Transaction Advisory
| John Cho, Director, Transaction Advisory,
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John has over fifteen years of professional experience advising on acquisition and divestitures, including five years as the Director of Corporate Development of an interactive software publisher. He routinely assists companies on acquisition related activities such as identifying and assessing acquisition opportunities, performing due diligence and executing on post-acquisition integration. John has experience in assisting companies in the IPO process as well as private capital financing transactions.
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Alex Dhanjal – Associate Partner, R&D Tax Incentives Practice
| Alex leads KPMG’s R&D IT Group in the GTA. He has over fifteen years’ experience and has managed teams of technology specialists to successfully execute large multiyear, enterprise-wide SR&ED claims of significant size and scope for clients in the technology, media, telecommunications and financial services industries.
|  Joseph Mauceri – Tax Specialist
| Joseph has an extensive background in software design and development, including web and emerging technologies, interactive games, and e-Learning applications. His experience allows him to bring unique insights and valuable assessments as to which expenses can be claimed for Research and Development credits. His area of focus is primarily Digital Media tax credits. |
Cognition LLP , an innovative virtual law firm specializing in providing affordable and business-focused in-house counsel and corporate legal services for startup and growth businesses. Pre-book a special, complimentary mini-consultation with Joe Milstone or Rubsun Ho, the founding partners of Coginition LLP – available for signup in the delegate area on Wednesday. 
Rubson Ho, Co-founder, Cognition LLP
| Rubsun HoRubsun Ho co-founded Cognition LLP upon recognizing that the existing
legal marketplace did not service startup and growth businesses well,
notwithstanding their significant needs for practical and affordable
legal advice. Prior to co-founding Cognition, Rubsun acted in various
capacities with Wysdom Inc., a wireless Internet startup based in
Toronto, where Rubsun joined on as employee number ten. While at
Wysdom, Rubsun acted as VP Business Development and as General Counsel,
helping the company raise over US$60 million in financing and procuring
and finalizing marketing and distribution agreements with various
telecom and Internet entities. Rubsun has since leveraged those
experiences and contacts at Cognition, assisting several technology
ventures in starting up, raising capital and financing, and optimizing
their commercial agreements, contacts and negotiations. Before
Wysdom, Rubsun was a corporate and securities associate in the Toronto
and New York offices of Stikeman Elliott, where he worked on a number
of public and private financings and M&A transactions. Rubsun holds
a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto (1995) and a Bachelor
of Commerce (Finance) from McGill University (1992), and lives in
Toronto with his wife, two children and lop eared rabbit.
|  Joe Milstone,
Co-founder, Cognition LLP
| Joe MilstoneJoe Milstone is co-founder of Cognition LLP, an innovative legal
services organization that provides flexible and affordable in-house
counsel legal services primarily to startup and growth companies in the
technology and telecommunications sectors who are seeking an
alternative to either hiring full-time counsel or using a traditional
law firm. Through Cognition, Joe has worked extensively on “both
sides” of the mobile space – working with carriers and providers of
mobile bandwidth and services and also game/application developers
either with their own properties or who partner with more traditional
content owners in order to mobilize traditional games/content to bring
them appropriately to market. Joe also regularly works with companies
that sell various value-added services and content, including gaming
properties, into the traditional carriers for distribution. Prior to
Cognition, Joe served in the capacity of Vice-President, Legal and
Business Services at both Magna Entertainment Corp., North America’s
leading horse racing entertainment, wagering and gaming provider, and
Call-Net Enterprises Inc. (Sprint Canada Inc.), then Canada’s leading
alternative telecommunications provider. Joe also worked for a number
of years in the financial services industry after having begun his
working career at the law firm of Osler Hoskin and Harcourt. Joe holds
a joint LL.B/M.B.A. degree from Osgoode Hall/Schulich School of
Business, and in his “spare time”, is a dedicated father, football fan,
entrepreneur, volunteer and supporter of cultural adaptation for
immigrants to Canada. |
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