Expo speakers

Sanat Kumar Bheeroo

Sanat is a Technical Manager at W.consulting and a CPD NQF level 8 trainer.
He is part of the IFRS Advisory Team based in our office in Mauritius. He qualified as a chartered certified accountant with Nexia and has worked for both KPMG and BT during his career. While with Nexia, he was an audit supervisor and an IFRS advisor for both local and foreign companies, and served as the technical manager with India Management Services (IMS) Ltd.
Sanat has also worked as a finance manager and ACCA lecturer (specialising in Financial Reporting (F7), Financial Management (F9), Corporate Reporting (P2) and Advanced Financial Management (P4)) at FTMS Global Education (Mauritius), where he has provided lectures to both Mauritian and foreign students. Sanat is also a CFA Candidate.
His main interests lie in IFRSs (especially in IFRS 9), financial mathematics, financial engineering, derivatives and statistics.
Sanat has authored many leading publications on IFRS and has published eight books in accounting since 1997. He has also more than twenty years of experience in the field of educating professionals and students in IFRS.

International Guest Speakers

Blaise Colyvas

Blaise has 10 years of experience in public practice. During this time he has worked at Grant Thornton as an audit manager, Gobodo Incorporated as a senior manager in their technical standards division, Protect a Partner International as Head of Accounting and Technical Excellence and most recently as a technical director at W.Consulting. His areas of expertise include, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), IFRS for SMEs, Generally Recognised Accounting Practice (GRAP) and ISA (International Auditing Standards). He provides technical consulting services and training to the firm’s clients on these frameworks. He is an active member of the Accounting Standards Board’s Public Sector Accounting Forum (previously the SAICA Public Sector Technical Forum) and has served on various sub-committees of the Accounting Practices Committee of SAICA and the ASB. He is also a Registered Auditor and member of the Independent Regulatory Board of Auditors, and a registered Skills Assessor. He is a co-author of the publication Wiley Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards 2011 and 2012.