As Vice President of Compliance Services, Nichol MacDonald leads Avalara’s Managed Returns Services across sales & use, lodging, beverage alcohol, and telecommunications tax verticals. Most recently, she completed her executive certification in Blockchain for Business through Columbia University.

Nichol has been with Avalara for 5+ years and is based out of Raleigh/Durham, N.C.  Prior to joining Avalara, Nichol was a partner at Blackwell & Boyd Wealth Management after leading in a variety of finance and operations roles at Symantec.

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.