The board of directors of W. R. Berkley Corporation has elected Jonathan Talisman as a director, increasing the number of board members to 11 and the number of independent directors to nine.
Mr. Talisman is a founder and managing partner of Capitol Tax Partners. Before forming Capitol Tax Partners in 2001, Mr. Talisman served as the assistant secretary for tax policy at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Clinton Administration. Previously, he served at the Treasury Department as the deputy assistant secretary for tax policy and the tax legislative counsel as the chief democratic tax counsel of the Senate Finance Committee and as legislation counsel to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Currently, Mr. Talisman serves on the board of advisors to the Tax Policy Center and was chair of the Formation of Tax Policy Committee for the American Bar Association's tax section. He also currently serves as an adjunct tax professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He was president of the board of directors at Adventure Theatre Musical Theatre Center for several years.
Mr. Talisman holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.S. in commerce from the University of Virginia. He was admitted as a certified public accountant in Maryland in 1981.
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Victoria Spears
Victoria Prussen Spears is senior vice president of Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a law firm marketing communications consulting company. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Spears was an attorney at a leading New York City law firm before joining Meyerowitz Communications. She may be contacted at [email protected].