Built From Scratch, James Ortiz of REDW

Podcast: Bizora Brews · Adam Tahir

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

What does it take to run a top 100 firm’s entire tax department when your career was built in sales and use tax, not federal compliance? James Ortiz is the Head of Tax at REDW, which just climbed to No. 96 in the IPA rankings. His path started in the call center at the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department while he was still finishing a finance degree. From there he moved into gross receipts tax audits, then to Moss Adams reviewing the same refund claims he used to audit, and then to Gap’s shared serv...