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John Briggs, CPA

Founder & CEO

John Briggs graduated from Brigham Young University with a Master of Accountancy in Tax. He worked on corporate taxes and trusts in Orange County, CA with Deloitte & Touche, one of the four largest national accounting firms. With his educational background and work experience at Deloitte, John took a position as Controller for a Dish Network door to door sales company located in Provo, UT. As Controller, John helped the company implement budgets designed to improve productivity while eliminating excess and unnecessary expenses. He helped structure compensation packages for sales reps and advised executives, employees, and sales contractors on investment decisions. John later moved on to become a partner at a small accounting firm where he managed the day to day operations, prepared tax returns for clients, and participated in budgetary meetings with the firm. He saves his clients on unnecessary taxes and educates them on how to properly document business expenses. His core belief is that when your tax and accounting needs are approached proactively, both can become a resource for you to create wealth in your life. John is a CPA and also has a lean six sigma master black belt certification. This discipline of education allows John to help businesses improve their efficiencies by eliminating defects in the production or service cycle while also helping businesses cut waste from their operations.

Ryan Vaughn

Marketing Guy

Ryan handles the marketing and growth of the company. Ryan went to Utah Valley University and studied business, Entrepreneurship. For the past 4 years he has been a devoted student of marketing. He is married and loves being with his beautiful wife. He thrives off success and thoroughly enjoys helping others. He is motivated and prides himself off transforming inefficiencies into very productive processes. If there is problem, look to him to remedy the situation. He is light hearted and makes anything he does enjoyable. Ryan is a cheerful individual who loves making others laugh and appreciate life.

Dustin Griffiths

Dustin graduated from Utah Valley University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. He has been preparing taxes for the past 4 years and loves having the opportunity to strategize with his clients to help reduce their tax liability. He is married and currently has one son. He loves all things being active in sports, particularly golf.

Heather Harris

Executive Assistant

When Heather joined Incite Tax, she brought with her a fresh view of the tax and accounting world. Prior to her employment at Incite Tax, Heather worked as support staff serving clients in a variety of industries including education and property management. She has experience in the fields of billing, secretarial and customer service. Heather has a bachelor’s degree in Home and Family Living from Brigham Young University. When she’s not working, Heather enjoys exercising and cooking new healthy recipes.

Mandy Thornton, CPA

Tax Analyst

Mandy graduated with her Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Utah. She got her CPA license shortly after finishing school. She worked for a small CPA firm for 8 years before joining the Incite Team. Mandy joined our team in July 2015 and can’t imagine not working for Incite Tax! She loves being able to interact with clients and guide them in the right direction to save as much as they can on their taxes. She always is trying to find new ways to simplify the complicated tax code to help her clients understand what is going on. She is very organized, and loves task lists. Mandy has lived in Utah her whole life and absolutely loves the different seasons it provides! She takes advantage of the mountains being so close and spends as much time out in mother nature as she can with her husband, dogs, and family.

Lynn Merritt

Tax Accountant & Bookkeeping Specialist

Before devoting his work full time to Incite Tax, Lynn filled his time running his own business, managing large international non-profits and serving on various executive boards of directors. He has over two decades of accounting experience working exclusively with entrepreneurs and business owners. His goal for his clients is to make sure they keep as much money in their pockets as possible. He knows the need for cash flow and stays up nights finding new strategies for his clients. In addition to being a crack tax associate -he is an avid golfer and gets as much time in with his grandchildren as is possible

Michele Baer, CPA

Michele graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She is a CPA and started her career doing audit work for a local Utah CPA firm.
She has been preparing taxes for the last 6 years and is excited to be working at Incite Tax. She looks forward to becoming acquainted with her clients and their businesses.
Her main goal is to help her clients run their businesses as efficiently as possible while paying the least tax legally allowed. Michele is awaiting the arrival of her first grandchild.
She loves reading, solving crossword puzzles, and spending time outdoors.

Nathan Jarvis

Tax Accountant

Nate has been having a love affair with tax work since preparing his first tax returns in 2007. Seriously, being able to help someone save thousands of dollars in tax gives him a (natural) high every time. After he got hooked, he went back to school and completed master’s programs in business administration and accounting at University of Phoenix so he could come work for Incite and feed his addiction full-time. Nate is an entrepreneur at heart. As a family man with a gorgeous wife and five amazing children that make him a little too proud sometimes, Nate is living the dream. He loves to spend time teaching them how to tap dance and sing. He also likes to exercise with family and friends, and especially likes running because he can enjoy time with them in the great outdoors while getting into better shape.

Samantha Jones

Tax Accountant and Bookkeeping Genius

Samantha graduated from Western Governor’s University with her masters in accounting. She’s excited to no longer be a student and is looking forward to developing her career in tax and accounting. Samantha has her QuickBooks certification and is comfortable with bookkeeping. She is actively working toward obtaining her CPA designation.  She is married to her best friend and is a Southern Idaho native. She often spends her spare time with her husband at the gym, enjoying a nature documentary on Netflix, or learning about nutrition.

Mitch Sundwall

Tax Accountant

Mitch joined the Incite Tax team in July of 2017. He graduated from Western Governors University with a bachelor’s degree in business management. He has a variety of experience, including accounting, bookkeeping, underwriting, and tax preparation. With four busy seasons of tax prep experience, he is excited about the world of tax and its many possibilities. He is the father to three boys, an outdoors enthusiast, and a die-hard Yankees and Utes fan. He is currently enrolled in the Masters of Accounting program at Liberty University. Wood working, hunting, fishing, training his new puppy, and wandering around Cabela’s take up most of his time outside of work. He is married to his best friend and partner in crime, Megg.

Kristina Fario

Assistant

Kristina Fario graduated from University of Utah with a bachelors degree in Psychology. She considers herself to be eccentric, bright, independent, and extremely organized.  During her youth, she spent several years working in a variety of fields as she explored her career talents. Her mother has been a CPA for over 2 decades, which lit a fire of curiosity in Kristina for the accounting world.  She started off at Incite Tax in 2017 as Dustin’s assistant. As Incite Tax flourished, Michele’s need for an assistant became imperative for the 2018 tax season. Kristina thoroughly enjoys being Michele’s administrative assistant and feels confident she can contribute to Incite Tax. Kristina is a free spirited mother of a beautiful two year old son named Kadence. He brings her such joy! When she isn’t working and mothering, she is reading, fishing, hiking and experimenting with makeup. She has an insatiable hunger for learning. Her biggest dream is to live on the beach someday.

Keith Compton

Tax Accountant

Keith joined the Incite Tax team in January 2018.  He earned his Bachelors in Accounting degree from Utah State University.  He is currently perusing his Masters in Accounting through Southern Utah University.  Having worked in accounting for over 5 years, he has a lot of experience including tax preparation, tax planning, small business consulting, entity formation, property accounting, and more.  Keith loves spending time with his wife Amanda and their baby Aaron.  In his free time he likes to read, learn new things, play video/board games, and go hiking and camping.

Eryn Smith

Profit First Professional, Cash Management Expert

Eryn joined the Incite Tax team in November 2018. She is a former CrossFit gym owner and as far as we know, the only gym owner turned Profit First professional in the world! She graduated from Rutgers University in 2007 and proceeded to galivant all over the country, moving from New Jersey to Hawaii, to southern California and northern California, then back to NJ, only to finally end up in North Carolina where she started her gym, CrossFIt JuiceBox, in 2014. The gym was a huge success, but she found that she loved numbers and profit more than running the gym…so she sold the gym and decide to partner with the guy who was doing her payroll, Lee Crane, and they opened Box Business Solutions, whose main service was providing bookkeeping and Profit First to CrossFit gyms. Soon after becoming involved with Profit First, Eryn and John connected. When they finally got a chance to meet face to face, they decided that the best way to do the most good with their talents would be to team up. In November 2018, BBS officially became part of the Incite Tax team and Lee and Eryn could not be happier! Eryn is married to her favorite workout partner, Carson, and they are expecting their first baby this Christmas.

Lee Crane

Bookkeeping Genius

Lee has been consulting small businesses from the eye care industry to Crossfit gyms for the better part of 20 years. He has focused solely on the Crossfit industry for the past 5 years doing anything from preparing tax returns, financial planning, money management consulting, bookkeeping and payroll services for dozens of Crossfits across the country. Lee has been doing Crossfit for the better part of 7 years and has traveled the country visiting Crossfit gyms learning the business of Crossfit from an owner’s perspective as well as from the perspective of a member. Outside of work, Lee lives with his wife Dani, and two daughters, Abby (14) and Olivia (8 going on 22). Lee is an avid skier and was once a PIAA certified ski instructor (in his much younger days). Nowadays, Lee enjoys the challenge of long distance running, having completed 12 marathons, and keeping his sanity with three females running his life.

Shay Wright

Receptionist

Shay became part of the Incite family in 2018. She has previously worked as a receptionist for two other tax firms in Arizona, she knows her stuff. Shay loves interacting with and entertaining people, so she loves this job and our clients. Although an Arizona native, she combatted the humidity in the South for two years and now fluently speaks/understands southern accents.She is currently in school at Utah Valley University to become a Marriage and Family Therapist. When she’s not working or doing homework, she loves to create pretty things. Painting and DIY projects are some of her favorites. Shay enjoys listening to podcasts, reading books, and taking classes with her husband about developing themselves and their relationships.