Our Team

Biswanath Chakrabarty

President

FCGA (CANADA), MBA (MBS, UK), CPA (CO, USA)

Areas of Expertise:

  • Audits, reviews and compilations
  • Internal control Policies and procedures development
  • Taxation – corporate, personal and GST
  • Financial planning – business plans, projections, feasibility study, recovery and restructuring plans
  • Strategic planning and performance management
    Program reviews
As a long-term Northerner (since 2001), Biswanath possesses over 26 years of combined national and international experience in working with various SMEs, Indigenous organizations, First Nation Bands, Community Governments, and Territorial Governments. Biswanath has recently been appointed as the Financial and Strategic Advisor for Dene Nation. Biswanath has direct working experience with various departments and agencies of the Government of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. He served the Nunavut Housing Corporation for three years and participated as a member with the Interdepartmental Capital Planning Committee (ICPC) of the Government of Nunavut. He has served as the Director for Business Development for the Northwest Territories Business Development and Investment Corporation for a few years and worked with various manufacturers and businesses of various communities across the territory. Biswanath currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of CPA Association of NWT/Nunavut. He also serves as the Chair Person of the Practice Review Committee of the CPA Association of Northwest Territories/Nunavut.

Mr. Norman Yakeleya is the former National Chief of the Dene Nation with intrinsic knowledge of the indigenous communities, their way of life, culture, and traditions. He is an experienced politician having held varied Government managerial roles. He has been running his own consulting firm and providing various business consulting services as well as Training and Development of Professional skills, especially among the Indigenous community members.

As one of the Lead directors of NSY Consulting Ltd he is aware of the requirements and the market for Consulting and Training Business.

Norman Yakeleya

Indigenous Advisor

Dr. Chehrazade Aboukinane

CEO

Ph.D., P.Eng., EMBA, MSc.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Project Management and Leadership
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Water Quality and Quality Engineering
  • Research
  • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
  • Engineering Compliance
  • Global Reporting Initiatives
  • Sustainability
  • Watershed Management
  • Environmental Assessments
A senior professional and consultant with more than 25 years of experience in Project Management, Coordination, and Leadership in a variety of projects both locally and internationally.
  • A lifelong educator and academic leader with more than 25 years of experience in post-secondary program development, management consulting practice, Project Management, Information Technology, and Sciences and Engineering.
  • Ph.D. in Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications from Texas A&M University
  • Master of Science degree in Agricultural Engineering (with environmental specialization)
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Systems Engineering; Exec. MBA from Simon Fraser University (SFU)

Areas of Expertise:

  • Audits and reviews
  • Business process re-engineering
  • Procedures manual development
  • Controllership functions
  • Internal control development
  • System analysis
  • Training
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Isaiah Mutandiwa

Senior Vice President-Operations

B.ACC. HONS (UZ)

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Ranajit Batabyal

Director Business Development

Areas of Expertise:

  • Accounting in Sage 50
  • Business Plan Preparation
  • CaseWare Template building
  • Financial data Analysis
  • Budgeting and Variance Analysis
  • Business Process Development and Implementation
  • Team Building and Project Management
  • Corporate Management
  • Manual and Policy writing
Deborah Nixon

Dr. Deborah Nixon

PhD, MEH, B.COMM

Senior Management Consultant

Areas of Expertise:

  • Organizational development
  • Business and strategic planning
  • Community consultation
  • Market research
  • Leadership development
  • Change management
  • Performance assessment
  • Project management
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Agamani Chakrabarty

M.A, B.COMM

Economist

Areas of Expertise:

  • Statistical data analysis and statistical modelling
  • Research of various proposed investment
  • Enterprise risk modelling
  • Analysis of economic and business data
  • Data integrity analysis
  • Preparation of reports to support the research hypothesis
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Meera Basnyat

MBA, CPA, CGA

Director of Operations

Areas of Expertise:

  • Audits, reviews and compilations
  • Assessment of internal control
  • Taxation – corporate, personal and GST
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Hammad Amjad

CPA

Senior Director-Internal Finance

Areas of Expertise:

  • Cash-flow management
  • Internal controls
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Report preparation
  • Audit coordination
  • Financial transactions management
  • Invoice management
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Eric Whitworth

CPA, CMA

Public Sector Consultant

Areas of Expertise:

  • Program Reviews
  • Compliance Audits
  • Corporate Training
  • Business Process Re-engineering
  • Policies and Procedures Development
  • Controllership Functions
  • Internal Control Development
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Kyle Chisholm

CPA, CMA, MBA
Senior Accounting Advisor

Areas of Expertise:

  • Audits and reviews
  • Compilation
  • Internal control procedure
  • Bookkeeping and strategy development
  • Taxation – corporate and personal
  • Training
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Suman Basnyat

CPA, CMA, MBA

Accounting and Sage Intacct Advisor

Areas of Expertise:

  • Audits, reviews, and compilations
  • Internal control and financial procedures development
  • Taxation – corporate, personal, and GST
  • Financial system setup
  • Training
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Conrad Hickey

CPA

Accounting Advisor
A CPA with over 10 years of management experience working with Not-for-Profit and Municipal Governments.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Public Sector Financial Management
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting
  • Budgeting
  • Accounting in SAGE 300
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Partha Chakraborty

Director IT Infrastructure

Areas of Expertise:

  • IT infrastructure management
  • Vendor management
  • Windows server
  • Network security and firewall
  • IT operations
  • Infrastructure planning and design
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Paulami Gupta

Director of Consulting

Areas of Expertise:

  •  Professional research and writing (Preparation of business proposals and plans, project report, policy and procedure manuals,etc.)
  • Project execution including Project based research, analysis, co-ordination and liaison
  • Editing of Scientific papers, thesis, conference speeches for language and grammar
  • Office administration, co-ordination and basic accounting
  • Event management, execution, and comprehensive event co-ordination