Leadership Team
Pasquale Matogi
Director
Pasquale is an experienced tax and transfer pricing professional with over 15 years professional experience. He has advised clients on various tax matters including transfer pricing, corporate tax, withholding tax, value added taxes, tax strategy and tax restructuring. He has led the delivery of many assignments spanning various industries in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Pasquale has provided transfer pricing compliance and advisory services such as transfer pricing planning studies, transfer pricing compliance and defense documentation, evaluation of structuring options from a transfer pricing perspective, review and quantification of risks pertinent to related part transactions, assistance in dispute resolution and benchmarking studies.
He has also advised multinational enterprises on corporate reorganization and restructuring of transactions for efficient tax outcomes.
He has also assisted companies in preparation and submission of corporate income tax returns, value added tax returns and withholding tax returns.
Pasquale started his career with PwC Kenya in 2008. He has worked in various capacities with PwC Kenya and PwC Nigeria and rose to the position of Senior Manager before leaving to found Fortera.
Pasquale holds Bachelor of science in Mathematics from the University of Nairobi and has certificate in Transfer pricing from Chartered Institute of Taxation from United Kingdom. He is also a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK).
Solomon Choge
Director
Solomon has over 15 years of experience in Transfer Pricing and Tax Advisory offering services at a senior level in a number of countries in Africa. He is a leading expert in comparability studies and transfer pricing databases in Africa.
Solomon has also experience in tax restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, business setups and structuring, offshore entity setups, tax reviews and Value Added Tax (VAT) refund audits. He has vast experience working with revenue authorities, government agencies and major players in key industries in the countries that he has worked in. These include oil and gas, tourism, manufacturing, banking, telecommunication, shipping and logistics, agriculture among others.
Solomon has worked with one of the big four global firms in the East African region serving its key clientele in the region. Solomon has been involved at a senior level in Transfer Pricing consulting (Benchmarking) and training Revenue Authorities and Tax Consultants across Africa. Further, he has spearheaded capacity building in the use of databases for research in Governments and private sector clients. Solomon has also assisted various clients and potential clients in the use various software solutions and databases. One of his key achievements include establishing new relationships and revenue streams with over 18 Governments and Revenue Authorities in Africa and all the big 4 audit firms
Solomon has extremely good relationships in the tax industry including key regulatory agencies. He has vast experience dealing with tax authorities and very good at arguing clients’ positions and presentations. He has represented clients in meetings with various regulatory agencies in a number of countries.
Solomon holds a LLB from Moi University and LLM (Mercantile Law) LLM (International Tax Law) both from the University of Pretoria. He also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law and thus an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya