Carmela has more than 20 years of experience in the tax practice. She spent five years with the Philippine member firm of Ernst & Young and joined KPMG in the Philippines in May 2003. She has also provided tax services to various multinational and local companies from different industries such as information technology, real estate, warehousing and logistics, brokerage, power, telecommunications, construction, and healthcare. Also, she has provided tax advisory services covering a variety of concerns such as cross-border transactions and restructuring of businesses or corporations. Carmela has also handled national and local tax assessments, tax due diligence reviews, tax compliance reviews, tax return preparation, mergers and acquisitions, and transfer pricing services. She was seconded to the transfer pricing team of KPMG Singapore for one year starting in February 2008. Since her return to KPMG in the Philippines, she has been designed as KPMG in the Philippines’ Country Service Line Leader for Transfer Pricing. Country Service Line Leader of KPMG Philippines for transfer pricing.

Carmela earned her Juris Doctor from the Ateneo de Manila, School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts, Major in Political Science in the same university. She is also a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and named as one of the leading female tax advisers in the first edition of Women in Tax by the International Tax Review .

Manny joined KPMG in July 1999 from another Big Four firm based in the Makati Central Business District, the primary economic hub of the Philippines, where he started his career as a tax professional in January 1993.

His work included representing companies litigating in the tax courts, providing structuring advice to multinational clients including advising on the VAT system in the Philippines and assisting in getting refund or duty drawback claims by VAT taxpayers. Part of his work was assisting multinational companies set up in the Philippines, which included providing advice for industry start-ups or pioneers seeking to avail of the incentives available to certain kinds of foreign investors.