Sona Akmakjian

Avalara
Senior Director Global Accounting Strategic Partnerships
[email protected]
(206) 826-4900

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Sona is a certified California CPA with 28 years of experience in transnational tax services and automation. Her experience includes working for a state agency administering sales and use taxes, work in a Big Four accounting firm, a tax software company, and mid-market consulting firms.  Sona has strong skills in strategic alliances, executive collaboration, M&A due diligence, project and product management with deep industry experience across multiple market segments, including a specific focus in the enterprise segment.

About Us: Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. We provide prebuilt integrations with the big-name financial and business management systems you trust, as well as a robust API for do-it-yourself business builders. Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for transaction tax types, like sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and more. If you are an accounting practitioner, Avalara has a suite of Avalara for Accountants solutions, purpose-built to help you directly support your clients. We’re headquartered in Seattle, with offices across the U.S. and in Canada, the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India.