College of Business Alumni Awardees

Christine Deveney '87 is currently a director with KPMG’s Washington National Tax Practice, where she assists clients and KPMG’s global professionals in analyzing complex international tax issues in connection with business decisions. Christine relocated back to the U.S. in March 2017 after spending the past 24 years in Australia where she served as partner in charge of KPMG’s International Executive Services Practice for the state of Victoria and also held roles with Mercer Australia as a member of Mercer’s Asia Pacific Leadership team and National Business Leader for Mercer’s Mergers and Acquisition Business and before that Mercer’s Board and Executive Advisory Business.

Christine is passionate about education and economic empowerment for women and whilst in Australia served as a board member for the nonprofit organization The LBW Trust—Learning for a Better World, which provides transformational educational opportunities for students in the developing world. Here in Florida, she is a mentor with weVenture at FIT, working to raise the profile of women in business within the community. In 2015, she founded her own e-commerce business, TapaReef LLC, which manufactures personal care products for the water sports industry and works with professional athletes to profile and help raise funds for women competing internationally.

Christine received a B.S. in Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology in 1987 and went on to study for a master’s in taxation at the University of Central Florida. She is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, Australian Institute of CPAs, Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.