Meet our team of Taxback International experts.
Our team of professionals ensure that knowledge and expertise are the cornerstones of our service.
Terry Clune
Founder, The Taxback Group
As the founder of Taxback International and CEO of The Taxback Group, Terry is responsible for overseeing and steering the long-term growth of the company. With a proven track record of scaling market-leading financial services businesses across the globe over the past 20 years, Terry focuses on high-growth strategic opportunities ensuing continual global expansion of Taxback International.
Catherine Quirke
Chief Executive Officer
Catherine joined the business in 2013 after spending over 20 years working with global technology and fintech companies. Catherine is responsible for the overall strategy of the business, supporting and empowering senior management in driving global business growth and market share. This also involves ensuring synergy and alignment between our commercial and operational teams to deliver exceptional service and solutions to our broad range of international clients.
Eamon Clune
Chief Innovation Officer
As our Chief Innovation Officer, Eamon challenges everything from the way Taxback International operates internally to how we deliver services to our clients. Eamon works across the entire organization to help identity share and implement the best ideas. As a technology guru and evangelist, he researches and explores new technologies to continually innovate and delight our customers. Eamon has shaped the business across various concepts, including implementing industry-leading machine learning, artificial intelligence to achieve a fully automated VAT recovery solution.
Johanna Waara
Senior Vice President Global Sales
Johanna Waara is the commercial owner of the global sales organisation with accountability for global sales strategy, sales revenue, solution consultancy and client success management including ownership of the global alignment of sales objectives and growth targets to the company expansion strategy. Johanna has over 15 years of experience in global entrepreneurial Fintech where she has developed and led highly successful sales & marketing teams and managed expansion strategies in multi-product settings, consistently delivering exceptional results in transformational environments. Johanna leads and motivates the global sales team with clear revenue and KPI focus while fostering a culture of accountability, high-performance and teamwork.
Joe Healy
Senior Vice President Business Development
Joe Healy brings over 20 years of experience in business development, supporting clients ranging from start-ups through to multinationals. Joe has driven business development and Partner integration at Taxback International for over 11 years and during his tenure, Taxback International has become the dominant global VAT refund provider in the market. Joe is responsible for maximising synergies with our partners to ensure the delivery of value-added VAT recovery and compliance services to multinational clients.
Nora Duggan
Senior Vice President of Revenue and Operations
Nora Duggan is our Global Head of Marketing & Presales at Taxback International. Nora has over 20 years of International Commercial Marketing and Business Development experience - working across Europe, Asia Pacific, Australia, and China. She leads our Sales & Marketing strategy development and lead generation including Salesforce governance across the organisation. Nora is responsible for ensuring that Sales & Marketing measurement drives performance, communications and digital campaigns across key all key markets.
Lisa Dowling
Global VAT Director
As Global VAT Director, Lisa specialises in International VAT Reclaim and Compliance solutions, bringing a wealth of knowledge and insight in her dealings with a host of international clients. With 18 years of VAT experience behind her, Lisa has managed VAT Compliance issues and recovery solutions globally for Taxback International for over 8 years. Lisa and her team work with clients to tailor solutions for them, to meet their exact needs, and to manage the entire process from start to finish.
Éanna Brady
Strategic Director, Global Named Accounts
Éanna Brady has grown revenues consistently year after year in a diversity of industries spanning across multinational corporations. His exemplary leadership and communications skills coupled with the ability to sustain client relationships has fueled a career managing the Global named accounts teams as well as a top-performing Sales team in Ireland. Éanna is driven to deliver great results and by helping others achieve their true potential, having constantly over achieved on his personal targets he leads by example and grows the company through increased revenue.
Darren Heaphy
Head of Product Strategy
Darren is an experienced entrepreneur and has Head of Product Strategy at Taxback International, he strongly believes in designing and delivering products that can transform the service we provide through technology. Darren aims to create the conditions within our teams in which success is inevitable and in an environment in which teams can excel.
Martina Arnold
Regional Market Director Ireland and United Kingdom
Martina Arnold brings over 10 years’ experience in international business to Taxback International. She has a demonstrated history of working in the financial services sector, as well as supporting cross sectoral MNCs with their strategic investment decisions. As Regional Market Director, Martina is responsible for our strategic development of into United Kingdom and Ireland. Her focus is on the development of effective sales cycles and top-line growth for the region, as well as the management and development of key partnerships across the territory
Paraic McGrath
Regional Market Director APAC
Paraic McGrath brings 30 years of experience working across three continents to Taxback International. As Regional Market Director for the APAC region, Paraic is responsible for building and growing our market share and partnership profile. His goal is to promote and enhance our reputation as the leader in the region, growing our business footprint. He is the Vice-Chairperson of the Asian GAA, a vital member of the Irish business community in the region and a keen GAA referee and triathlete.
Todd Brennan
Regional Market Director DACH
Todd Brennan joined Taxback International in January 2020 as Regional Market Director DACH. Prior to this date, he held the position of European Director, State of North Carolina – European Office based in Frankfurt, Germany. He has over 25 years of experience in Transatlantic Business Development.
Roger Mechri
Regional Market Director Benelux, France & Spain
Roger Mechri brings over 25 years of experience in sales development he has acquired through his background in IT services and payment companies. Recognised as an expert in the payment industry, Roger Mechri was General Manager for Transaction Network Services France Benelux and DACH, before he was Head of Global Sales at Fexco Financial Services. His mission is to develop Taxback International's market share for the distribution of VAT return and financial services through France, Spain and Benelux regions.
Niklas Andrae
Regional Market Director Nordics & Baltics.
Niklas Andrae joined the Taxback International team in 2020, heading the execution of Taxback International's expansive growth strategy in the Nordics and the Baltics. Niklas comes from an entrepreneurial and sales-focused background, working in a vast array of different industries. Niklas aims to ensure top-line growth for the region based on a customer-first approach, managing and growing a team of A-players in the region and collaborating with world-class partners