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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tsakani Maluleke is South Africa’s Auditor General. She is the first woman to hold this position in the supreme audit institution’s 109-year history. She was also the first woman deputy Auditor General of South Africa. 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. 

The IAASB is working on a narrow scope maintenance of standards project on listed entity and PIE that addresses the IAASB’s actions in respect of recent revisions to the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants’ International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (including International Independence Standards) (IESBA Code) as a result of IESBA’s project on the definitions of listed entity and PIE.