Principal, a licensed Customs Broker, with approximately 30 years of experience in the customs field. Eveline was a Principal with Ernst and Young’s National Customs Practice (1987-1992) and is the founder of Eveline D. Koot and Associates, a successful Duty Drawback Consulting firm in business for the past fifteen years. Her primary expertise is import compliance, third party drawback services and software development. Her experience includes preparing ABI value reconciliations and prior disclosures for both import and drawback violations, performing third party customs compliance (ISA) and drawback reviews, as well as providing third party drawback services. Eveline is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara and before commencing her professional career she served 4 years as a volunteer in Africa with the Peace Corps.