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Annette Nellen, CPA, Esq. is a professor at San José State University teaching graduate level tax courses including tax research, property transactions, advanced individual tax, accounting methods, ethics, and tax policy. Annette is also director of SJSU’s TEI-SJSU High Tech Tax Institute and Blockchain Tax Conference. Annette is active in the tax sections of the AICPA (including former chair of the Tax Executive Committee and current chair of the Digital Assets Tax Task Force), ABA (chair of the Tax Policy & Simplification Committee), and California Lawyers Association. In 2023 she was appointed to the IRS Advisory Council (IRSAC) for a 3-year term and served as chair for 2024.

Annette is the recipient of the 2013 Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award given by the Tax Division of the AICPA, the highest award given by the accounting profession in taxation. She was named to Accounting Today’s 2024 & 2025 Lists of 100 Most Influential People in Accounting. Annette authors Bloomberg Tax Portfolio #533, Amortization of Intangibles, and Tax Analysts’ Tax Notes State Moving Forward? column. She is co-author/co-editor of four tax textbooks from Cengage.

Prior to joining SJSU in 1990, Annette was with the IRS (Revenue Agent and lead instructor) and EY. Annette is a graduate of CSU Northridge (BS Accounting), Pepperdine University (MBA), and Loyola Law School (JD).

Ri Yu joined Taylor Nelson Amitrano LLP as a law clerk in 2023 and became an associate attorney in November 2024. She earned her Juris Doctor from Chapman University Fowler School of Law in 2024, where she also completed a Certificate in Taxation Law.

While at Chapman, Ri represented low-income taxpayers through the Chapman Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic and served as Vice President of the Korean American Law Student Association.

Ri represents individuals and business entities in tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service, the California Franchise Tax Board, the California Employment Development Department, and the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, at all stages of tax controversy. She is admitted to practice law in California and before the United States Tax Court.

A native speaker of both Korean and English, Ri is actively involved in both the legal and local communities. She currently serves as the Policy Chair for the Corporate and Pass-Through Entities Committee of the California Lawyers Association. Outside the office, Ri enjoys watching baseball, playing tennis, and rewatching Christopher Nolan films.