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Vanessa Bowen

Job Title

Founder

Country

Canada

Vanessa Bowen is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner (NLP). She is also the Founder of Mint Worthy Co. Inc., a personal finance coaching platform that helps women develop positive financial habits so they can take control of their finances by changing their relationship with money. After ten years in corporate finance and public accounting where she worked with international businesses in both Canada and the US, Vanessa shifted her focus to pursue her passion for personal finance, and now empowers women to live life on their own financial terms. 

Through Mint Worthy Co. Inc., Vanessa teaches women the fundamentals of personal money management. With her holistic coaching strategies, Vanessa equips women with the tools and methods needed to break bad money habits, create new mindset shifts, and blaze a path to life-long financial freedom. 

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Vanessa Bowen, sitting on chair

Punyapal Shah

Job Title

Chartered Accountant

Country

United Arab Emirates

Punyapal Shah is a Chartered Accountant with more than 13 years of experience in handling complex audits for manufacturing, automobiles and textiles industries. He has experience in international and Corporate Tax matters as well.

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Punyapal Shah

Karan Vora

Job Title

Chartered Accountant

Country

United Arab Emirates

Karan Vora is Chartered Accountant with focused oriented on auditing under IFRS, Taxation and Due Diligence with more than 9 years of experience. He has experience in Transfer Pricing and International Taxation, Conduction Risk base Audits (RBAs), Valuation of Intangibles, Financial due diligence for Tax and Regulatory matters.

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Karan Vora

Rakesh Nair

Job Title

Director

Country

United Arab Emirates

Rakesh is a Director with the Corporate tax practice of Crowe UAE. Rakesh is a Chartered Accountant with more than 10 years of experience in corporate tax, International Tax and Transaction Tax matters catering to a number of industry verticals.

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Rakesh Nair

Zayd Maniar

Job Title

International Liaison Partner

Country

United Arab Emirates

Zayd Maniar is an International Liaison Partner with Crowe UAE and part of the UAE Management Team. Zayd Maniar is a Chartered Accountant and has almost 20 years’ experience in providing Audit and Assurance services in the UK and UAE.

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Zayd Maniar

Jasbine Heenaye

Job Title

AML/CFT Manager

Country

Mauritius

Ms. Jasbine Heenaye is an established professional in the Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting Terrorist Financing world. She has actively contributed at national and international levels for Mauritius in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. She also participated in the first National Risk Assessment in Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance for Mauritius, along with participating in the ESAAMLG Mauritius re-rating application exercise post MER, ESAAMLG Council of Ministers and was part of the Mauritian delegation at FATF Joint Group Committee meetings to discuss and demonstrate the effective actions taken by Mauritius to effectively combat ML and TF. She has a Bachelor of Law (LL.B) Hons and is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and is currently the AML/CFT Manager at the Mauritius Institute of Professional Accountants. She is the Team Leader of the Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBP) vulnerability team for the drafting of the second National Risk Assessment Report (NRA) being conducted in Mauritius this year.

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Jasbine Heenaye

Tsakani Maluleke

Job Title

INTOSAI CBC, Auditor General of South Africa

Country

South Africa

Ms. Tsakani Maluleke is South Africa’s auditor-general, the first woman to hold this position in the supreme audit institution’s 109-year history. She was also the first female deputy auditor-general.

Her background as a Chartered Accountant spans more than 20 years, with experience in both the private and public sectors, and in areas as diverse as auditing, consulting, corporate advisory, development finance, investment management and skills development agencies.

Tsakani served on the Presidential Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Advisory Council, where she successfully led a subcommittee that developed recommendations for broad-based black economic empowerment. As chairperson of the CA Charter Council, she led the first BEE sector charter, which focused on key transformation initiatives that improved access for black people to enter the profession. As a nonexecutive member of the Financial Advisory & Intermediary Services (FAIS) Ombud committee, she advised the setting up of the FAIS Ombud office.

Tsakani’s career is motivated by a passion to actively contribute to advancing black men and women in the accountancy profession. She has pursued this passion through her work with various organizations including Business Unity South Africa, African Women Chartered Accountants, and the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (Abasa), of which she is a past president.

Her role as the former South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) nonexecutive chairperson of the board, is a continuation of this work.

Her commitment to service excellence and ethical leadership, and her contribution to transformation has been recognized and awarded by the Presidents of ABASA, AWCA and Black Management Forum (BMF).

Tsakani is a fellow and moderator of the African Leadership Initiative and the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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Tsakani Maluleke