Kim Austin

Avalara
Director, Strategic Alliances
kim.austin@avalara.com

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Kim’s career includes 20 years of experience in the accounting, document management, workflow, indirect tax, and cloud technology space. She leads a team at Avalara responsible for securing, growing, and fostering mutually beneficial partnerships with accounting firms of all sizes - from ProAdvisors to the Big 4 firms. Kim’s contributions to the profession have included co-authoring numerous thought leadership articles for accounting trade publications. She’s also spoken at many national and regional conferences.

Kim has been named four times to Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list, is a six-time CPA Practice Advisor 40 Under 40 honoree, and has been recognized by CRN as a Woman of the Channel for the past ten years. Kim currently serves as Chair of the Information Technology Alliance (ITA) Board of Directors, and is a member of the UC Santa Barbara PACE Customer Experience Advisory Board. Kim’s passion is delivering amazing service to her clients and her partners. 

Find her on Twitter & Instagram @MrsAustinNexus, or follow her
blog: www.viewfrommyshoes.com.

 

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.