CPA Mohamed Ebrahim

Mohamed currently is an Audit Partner with Ace Associates - Certified Public Accountants & CEO of Ace Financial Advisory Limited. He is also a non-executive Director of Hazina Development Trust Limited, an Islamic Sharia Compliant Micro- Finance Institution operating in Mombasa, Kilifi and Kwale Counties.

He is a CPA Kenya and holds an MBA from The University of Manchester (UK) and B.A (Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University, He is also an Alumni of the Durham Islamic Finance Summer School. He has worked for over 25 years with firms in Kenya -Ernst & Young – Assurance Advisory Business Service & Tax Service lines, PKF Kenya (formerly Kassim Lakha Samvir Abdulla- Audit Senior, and Devani –Devani & Co. United Arab Emirates -Group Financial Controller - Credo Investments FZE. Canada – Mc Tavish & Co. CPA’s.

A member Institute of Directors (Kenya) and Non-Executive Directors Association (UK). He served on the ICPAK Coast Branch, Executive Council as Secretary and CPD Convener (2013-15) and from May 2016 to May 2018. Vice-Chair May 2018 to date. He was commended by ICPAK in June 2015 for his services to the Accounting profession by ICPAK. He also currently serves on the ICPAK National Committee of Council, Devolution Workstream.

Educational & Professional details.

Mohamed speaks English, Gujerati, Hindi, Urdu, Swahili. Born in an Indian immigrant family from Gujerat India, settled on the Swahili Coast of East Africa for four (4) generations,

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) – Sustainable Performance Management

Manchester Metropolitan University

Master of Business Administration

The University of Manchester – Manchester Business School

Certified Islamic Finance Executive (CIFE)

Advanced. Certified Islamic Finance Executive in Islamic Accounting

Ethica Institute of Islamic Finance, Dubai, UAE.

ACMA, CGMA, Member, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, registered as a CIMA Member in Practice.

CPA, Practicing member

Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK)

FCFIP, Fellow Member -International Institute of Certified Forensic Investigation Professionals

FCT, Fellow Member, Fellow Chartered Treasurer

FFA – Fellow of the Institute of Financial Accountants

FIPA - Fellow of Institute of Public Accountants of Australia

MCIArb - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Full Member.

MCSI: Member, Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments

Institute of Internal Auditors - Member

Currently, a Doctoral Student at the Edinburgh Business School, completed the Coursework stage, working on the doctoral thesis

Interim Award - Post Graduate Certificate in Business Research methods

Short Courses and MOOC’s

• The World Bank Group's MOOC on Financing for Development.

• Financial Markets an online non-credit course authorized by Yale University, facilitator being Professor Robert Shiller – 2013 recipient of Nobel Prize in Economic sciences

• Principles of Valuation: Time Value of Money authorized by University of Michigan

• Islamic Financial & Capital Markets -101 - & Structure and Trading of Sukuk102 – by Islamic Research and Training Institute

• Islamic Finance & Banking 101 & 102 – Islamic Modes of Finance - by Islamic Research and Training Institute

• University Teaching MOOC on Coursera by Hong Kong University.

• Oxford Brookes University Business School – Online mentoring Course

• ICPAK - Training of Trainers

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

Professional Conference paper

IICFIP 2014 Global Conference “Creating a Business Culture based on ethics”

MBA Dissertation

Risk Management in Islamic Financial Institutions

Publications in Professional Journals

The Accountant – Journal of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya

• Tax Reforms 1 – Time for a Flat Tax system in Kenya – February- March 2012 issue

• Tax Reforms 2 – Specific Tax Simplification Reforms – April –May 2012 Issue

• Risk Management in Islamic Financial Institutions – December-January 2013 issue

Africa Islamic Finance Report (Volume 1 no, 2)- April- June 2016

• A case for Islamic Sharia Compliant Real Estate Investment Trust (Islamic REITS) in Kenya

Mohamed is also a Pranic Healer and Arhatic Yogi He regularly practices Twin Hearts Mediation and other Arhatic Yoga meditations.