Meet the Team

Michael Rozbruch, CPA and Certified Tax Resolution Specialist, a pioneer in the tax resolution industry, has a proven “in-the-trenches” track record as evidenced by accumulating 168 month-over-month consecutive revenue growth culminating in $23 million in revenue in just one year alone.

Michael is a nationally recognized entrepreneur and is the founder of Roz Strategies® and Michael Rozbruch’s Tax and Business Solutions Academy®, an eLearning, training and coaching services company that trains and helps CPAs, Enrolled Agents and Attorneys build highly profitable practices through proven marketing systems and strategies. But he doesn’t stop there. He also trains on how to “close” the sale, manage the client relationship and knows firsthand how a best practice IRS Problem client niche practice should be run and operated.

Standing alongside Michael to help you be as successful as possible with your own tax resolution business is the Roz Team—Roslyn Rozbruch, Becky Stephens, John Israelian, Ruthie Ponce, and Karen Hood. Read on to learn more about how each team member makes it their goal to make life in your practice a little easier—and a lot more profitable!

As President of Roz Strategies, Roslyn Rozbruch has worked alongside her husband and business partner Michael from the very beginning of launching their company in 2014. Since that time, Roslyn has helped Michael in producing and creating all their products. She plans company events that range from their mastermind member meetings held in Los Angeles to their annual Tax Resolution Success Summit that attracts nearly 200 people that takes place in August. Roslyn is also involved with the overall running of the company and oversees the day-to-day operations.

Roslyn is not your typical entrepreneur and brings a different set of skills to the business. She’s had a varied career over the years, but one of her favorites was when she worked as a freelance journalist and reporter. As a journalist, she contributed regularly to “The Los Angeles Times”, as well as countless other local and national publications, and eventually was hired at “Los Angeles magazine” where she worked as an Assistant Editor.

While Michael has the technical expertise in tax resolution, Roslyn brings a personal touch to everything they do for members. She is always thinking about new benefits to add, as well as new ways to make any of the Roz Strategies products, events and memberships fun as well as valuable.

Project Manager is an apt job description for Ruthie Ponce because she’s always working on important projects for our Diamond, Gold, APN and Mastermind members. She provides product fulfillment, sets up training webinars, and is learning to master the company’s CRM system, Infusionsoft/Keap. She also works closely with Roslyn Rozbruch helping her on a variety of projects including organizing the mastermind meetings and the annual Tax Resolution Success Summit. Ruthie has worked with Michael at his resolution firm for six years along with Becky and John.

John Israelian’s focus is to help bring new clients on board and provide the guidance and care they need to get started implementing the tax resolution and marketing strategies that Michael teaches. John is uniquely equipped to assist practitioners interested in getting into the tax resolution business because he worked, for nearly a decade, alongside Michael in his tax resolution practice. Having worked directly with taxpayers who owed money to the IRS, John knows firsthand the challenges tax resolution specialists face and how to help them.

Isaac Park is a problem solver and our digital marketing expert. His background in IT and computer consulting coupled with his experience in creating digital marketing campaigns have made him a valuable member of the Roz Strategies team since 2018. On any given day you will find Isaac updating the membership website, helping members with technical issues, or working on digital marketing campaigns getting ready for all the product launches we do. Isaac says his goal is to make everyone’s life easier. Have a problem? Isaac would love to help you solve it!

Becky Stephens likes to say that if she has made you happy today, she has done her job. Her responsibilities include answering members’ questions via phone and email, collecting and processing payments, helping with bookkeeping, and working to keep Michael’s schedule on track. She hits the ground running every day, doing all she can to make sure each member is happy and taken care of. The best part of her job is hearing success stories from members who are implementing Michael’s strategies and seeing them pay off in profitable practices and satisfied tax resolution clients.

When the team at Roz Strategies needed to hire a new project coordinator, they knew just the person to call. Angie Tantalean worked with Michael in his tax resolution firm. She has over 14 years’ experience working with tax resolution professionals and working cases. Angie knows the business and has been a quick study since joining Roz Strategies in July 2022. She is the “voice” on the other end of your membership emails and can answers member’s questions on getting information from clients to pulling transcripts, and much more.

Karen Hood has been a part of the Roz Team since 2021. Prior to joining our team, Karen worked for 13 years at her local Chamber of Commerce and supported Chamber members in growing their businesses. She uses that skill-set and experience to help Roz Strategies’ members. Karen works closely with Roslyn on writing our newsletter, the Roz Report, and with Ruthie on a variety of tasks including helping members in any way she car. Karen enjoys hearing about member successes and sharing it in the Shout Out section of the Roz Report.