Our Team

Grounded in practice. Backed by research.

Decades of tax incentive work across public accounting, academia, and technology, brought together in one platform.

CO-FOUNDER

Blake E. Christian, CPA, MBT

Blake is a Tax Partner at Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP (HCVT), where he leads the firm's Qualified Opportunity Zone consulting practice. Over a 45-year career that began at KPMG, where he was admitted to the partnership, he has specialized in federal, state, and local tax incentives, credits, and grants tied to hiring and investing. He and his team have formed more than 250 Qualified Opportunity Funds and 250 Qualified Opportunity Zone Businesses. Named a Top 25 Opportunity Zone Influencer three years running, Blake is a contributing columnist for the AICPA CPA Insider and has lectured in USC's MBT program. He holds an MBT from USC and a BS in Accounting from CSU Long Beach. Blake brings the real-world deal experience behind every tool on the platform.

ADVISOR

Charles W. Swenson, PhD, CPA

Chuck is Professor Emeritus of Accounting at USC Marshall's Leventhal School of Accounting and holds an active California CPA license. His research focuses on place-based tax incentives, including state enterprise zones and federal empowerment zones, the forerunners of today's Opportunity Zones. His work has been presented before the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, including California Senate Finance Committee hearings on the state's Enterprise Zone Program. He is general editor of Bender's State and Local Taxation: Principles and Practice, a treatise of roughly 7,000 pages, and a three-time recipient of the American Taxation Association's Tax Manuscript Award. He began his career in tax practice at Deloitte Haskins & Sells, and his recent research applies machine learning to corporate tax analysis. Chuck grounds the platform's intelligence in rigorous, defensible tax scholarship.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Ravi Ramaswamy

Ravi leads product and engineering for OZ Intel Pro. He currently serves as VP of CxO Services for Digital Transformation and Agentic Automation at dotSolved Systems, bringing more than two decades of enterprise technology leadership across financial services and tax. He previously ran IT strategy, operations, and cybersecurity at Loring Ward, a $17B financial services firm, was CTO and technology co-founder of International Tax Group, and held technology leadership roles at HCA Healthcare and Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock). He holds a Master's in Computer Applications. Ravi builds the platform and marketplace that power OZ Intel Pro.

CO-FOUNDER

Parker J. Christian

Parker leads platform operations and growth for OZ Intel Pro. He brings more than a decade of sales, business development, and client management experience across SaaS, commercial insurance, and sports and entertainment. In Opportunity Zone real estate, he led growth for a container housing developer built around the Qualified Opportunity Zone program. Parker is also earning his stripes in public accounting. After a winter busy season in audit, he heads back for round two in January 2027 before starting full time in October 2027, all while working toward his California CPA license. He connects the platform's tax expertise to the investors, fund managers, and advisors who rely on it.

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