The practitioners behind every engagement.
Tax law, engineering, enterprise finance, and applied AI — brought together under one accountable framework, so every client is led by practitioners, not generalists.
Practitioner-led expertise across every layer of AP governance
Each engagement draws on deep, hands-on domain authority — not theory. Meet the specialists behind the framework.
Colin Brien
U.S. Tax Attorney — IRS Information Reporting ComplianceColin Brien is a U.S. Tax Attorney and one of the foremost practitioner authorities in IRS information reporting compliance. As a RAS AP Consulting SME, he brings more than two decades of Big Four public accounting experience to engagements requiring precise, defensible compliance outcomes — with deep technical expertise spanning Form 1099 reporting, backup withholding, Form 1042-S, Section 1441 nonresident alien (NRA) withholding, FATCA compliance, and the OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS).
Colin is the Founder of InfoReporting Solutions and currently serves as Chief Growth Officer at Comply Exchange — a leading global provider of tax withholding and information reporting solutions. Over his career he has represented and served clients across financial services, private equity, asset management, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and retail industries.
Colin earned his JD at Quinnipiac School of Law and holds an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law. Within the RAS AP Consulting engagement model, he serves as the firm's primary technical resource on IRS withholding obligations, information reporting risk, and regulatory remediation strategy.
Troy Gayle
Engineering, Project Management & Strategic ConsultingTroy Gayle is a leader with 20+ years of experience at the intersection of technical engineering, project management, and strategic consulting. He holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology and an MBA from Boston University.
As Linear Accelerator Engineer and Lab Manager at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Troy leads a team of engineers and technicians, manages cross-functional projects, and maintains mission-critical radiation therapy systems supporting patient care. His earlier work at Raytheon leading nationwide TSA airport security installations built his foundation in logistics, team management, and field training.
Through Gayle Strategy Consulting, Troy partners with organizations on strategic planning, project management, and digital strategy — with clients ranging from the Oscar Micheaux Family Theater Program to international tech brand Proton Mail (Switzerland). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Soccer Unity Project and is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers and the National Black MBA Association.
Tavares Ireland
CPA, MBA — Senior Business Analysis ExpertTavares Ireland is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and MBA-credentialed Senior Business Analysis Expert who brings 13 years of direct, hands-on experience across accounting, treasury, procurement, financial operations, and enterprise financial systems to every RAS AP Consulting engagement.
Currently serving as Vice President of Accounting at an AI-focused technology company, Tavares oversees a demanding operational portfolio spanning accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll administration, contract review, internal controls design, financial systems management, and audit coordination — giving him a ground-level understanding of how AP compliance gaps manifest in real-world financial environments.
Within client engagements, his expertise in business process analysis and systems integration positions him as an essential resource on assessments requiring rigorous evaluation of vendor master data quality, AP workflow architecture, controls design, and compliance readiness — translating complex operational challenges into structured, prioritized, actionable remediation roadmaps.
Chinmay Zanpure
Founder, Morado AIChinmay Zanpure is the Founder of Morado AI — an IRS-registered artificial intelligence platform purpose-built for Form 1099 and Form 1042 tax reporting compliance. With more than 13 years of foundational expertise in cybersecurity, Chinmay entered the IRS information reporting space through a legacy 1099 software acquisition, gaining direct, practitioner-level exposure to the limitations of the incumbent compliance technology landscape — and channeled that knowledge into building a next-generation AI-powered platform from the ground up.
Morado AI is fully registered with the Internal Revenue Service for both Form 1099 and Form 1042 reporting, and is currently in active development as an enterprise-grade Software-as-a-Service platform. Rosemarie Smith of RAS AP Consulting serves as Morado AI's 1099 Subject Matter Expert and Intellectual Property owner — aligning Chinmay's technical engineering capabilities with deep, practitioner-authoritative domain knowledge in IRS information reporting compliance.
Based in San Jose, California, Chinmay brings Silicon Valley-caliber AI engineering expertise to RAS AP Consulting's practitioner-led service model — technical depth paired with domain relevance, so technology serves compliance outcomes rather than merely surrounding them.
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