Sulolit "Raj" Mukherjee hired at Internal Revenue Service in February 2024 as the Executive Director, Compliance & Implementation for the Office of Digital Asset Initiative (DAI). The DAI serves as a Program Office that will help IRS set consistent, global digital asset strategy, including internal IRS procedure and policy. He brings significant industry expertise to his position.
He is particularly experienced in building global tax program from ground zero and executing pragmatic strategies that meet regulatory muster and budget parameters.

Formerly, he led the global tax function at ConsenSys and its foreign subsidiaries. In this role, he managed all the firm's tax functions including tax policy, corporate tax compliance, international tax, M&A and customer reporting. He also served as ConsenSys' tax policy representative in Washington DC because of his extensive know-how in liaising with governing agencies and industry to help clarify tax regulations in the digital asset space. Previously, he was the Head of Tax & Tax Information Reporting at two digital asset currency exchanges including Coinbase where he oversaw creation of end-to-end tax compliance functions and served as the lead executive focused on emerging US and global tax & regulatory obligations for digital assets. He partnered with Legal, Technology and Business leadership to assess risks to the firm and mitigate those risks through pragmatic & executable enhancements and controls.

Raj came to the digital assets world after leading tax advisory functions for investment banks in NYC for over a decade focusing on U.S. and global tax information reporting, FATCA, NRA, 871(m) and Common Reporting Standard (CRS).
Raj has a J.D from University of Kansas School of Law, and B.A. degrees in International Relations and English Literature from Washington College in the state of Maryland.