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  "markdown": "President, Chief Executive Officer and Director.\n\nChris Young became president and chief executive of Vertex, and joined its board, in November 2025. He was previously executive vice president for business development, strategy and ventures at Microsoft from 2020 to 2025 and chief executive of McAfee from 2017 to 2020, and he co-founded Cyveillance.\n\n## What Chris builds\n\n- [Vertex O Series](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vertex-tax.md), graded C, 54.8/100, in Tax calculation \u0026 compliance. Vertex O Series is indirect tax software from Vertex, Inc. that calculates sales tax, use tax and VAT for a transaction and records it for reporting. Agents reach it through REST v2 APIs with OAuth client credentials. President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Bala Chandran](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bala-chandran/), Chief Product and Technology Officer\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Chris Young?\n\nChris Young became president and chief executive of Vertex, and joined its board, in November 2025. He was previously executive vice president for business development, strategy and ventures at Microsoft from 2020 to 2025 and chief executive of McAfee from 2017 to 2020, and he co-founded Cyveillance.\n\n### What does Vertex, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Vertex O Series from Vertex, Inc.. Vertex O Series is indirect tax software from Vertex, Inc. that calculates sales tax, use tax and VAT for a transaction and records it for reporting. Agents reach it through REST v2 APIs with OAuth client credentials.\n\n### How are Chris's tools graded?\n\nVertex O Series is graded C, 54.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.vertexinc.com/\n- https://www.vertexinc.com/contact-us\n- https://www.vertexinc.com/support-services/customer-support\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex,_Inc.\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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