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Manpreet Grover, Chief Executive and Financial Officer

Manpreet Grover  is SOAProjects' Managing Partner & CFO, with over two decades of experience, she is a Chartered accountant from UK and a California CPA. Manpreet started her career with KPMG in UK and then moved to PricewaterhouseCoopers in the US. Most recently she was with Ernst & Young in the Palo Alto Office. She has extensive experience in Internet, Software and Life Science industry and also managed some of the largest clients in the Bay Area.

Manav Singh, Partner

Manav Singh, SOAProjects founding Partner, has over two decades audit and consulting experience. He is an entrepreneur by nature and has opened two successful companies and sold them to Fortune 500. He is a recognized entrepreneur in the valley and specializes in delivery of services to such industries as communications, networking, semiconductor and bio-tech. Manav specializes in the technical areas of internal controls, revenue assurance, FAS 123R and other financial projects. His background includes seven years with PricewaterhouseCoopers. As one of the founding members of this firm, he has been instrumental in the overall growth of SOAProjects and member of the Financial Executive International (FEI).

Faisal Jeddy, CPA Partner Technical Accounting and Finance Advisory Group

Faisal Jeddy is Technical Accounting and Finance Advisory Partner, with responsibilities that include oversight of offices in four continents and nearly a dozen major cities world wide. Faisal joined SOAProjects, Inc. as a well known and accomplished Audit Partner from BDO Seidman, LLP, the fifth largest international accounting network in the world, where he was a prominent leader of their technology practice in the Bay Area. Faisal carries strong technical skill-sets in several complicated areas of accounting including revenue recognition, restructuring, software development costs, complex equity and debt instruments and SEC reporting. Prior to BDO, Faisal worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for eight years, working on a wide variety of clients across many sectors.

Faisal is a Certified Public Accountant in California, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Pakistan, a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as well as the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Major clients include SGI, Chordiant Software, Motive Inc., Aricent, QuadraMed and Electroglas.

Raymond Wong, Partner Asia Pacific

Raymond is our Partner Asia Pacific. Prior to SOAProjects, Inc., he was a Partner in WP & Co., LLP, a certified public accounting firm with 7 offices in the US and in China. For 10+ years Raymond has been supporting companies conducting business between China and the U.S. Raymond is a project leader for Fortune 500 companies managing their large-scale finance projects. He has led projects for Hewlett-Packard, UTStarcom, Inc., Tyco Electronics, and Franklin Templeton Investments. 

Yahav Dinai, Partner Israel

Yahav Dinai is the Managing Partner of SOAProjects in Israel. Yahav brings over 12 years of experience in financial management, strategic planning, execution for technology firms and public accounting experience while holding a variety of leadership roles in Pricewaterhousecoopers, LLP and previously, in Ernst & Young, LLP, serving companies in a wide variety of industries during his career in public accounting. This experience includes a broad range of business enterprises in both the public and private sectors providing consulting and assurance services and working with clients including Fortune 500 companies, investment firms and venture capital funds.
Yahav received his graduate's degree in economics and accounting from the Tel Aviv University, Israel and his master degree in law (LLM) from the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Yahav is also a licensed C.P.A. in Israel.

Yuko Wakasugi, Partner Technical Accounting

Yuko is a Partner in the Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting Advisory Group.  Yuko has 18+ years of public accounting experience, with eleven years at Ernst & Young and seven years at BDO, the fifth largest international accounting network in the world.  Most recently, Yuko was a partner at BDO’s assurance practice in the Bay Area, serving both public and private companies with a heavy focus in the high-technology industry.  She assisted numerous public companies in their initial adoption of SOX, implementation of AS No. 5, as well as worked on various SEC filings including S-3, S-4, and comfort letters.  Yuko’s expertise consists of several complicated areas of accounting, including revenue recognition (Software, SaaS, SAB 104, Multiple-Elements, ASU 2009-13 and 14, ASU 2010-17 Milestone Method), impairment, restructuring, business combinations, stock based compensation, and complex equity and debt instruments.   Yuko is a CPA in California, a member of the AICPA and California Society of CPAs.  She also serves as a committee co-chair for the Business Roundtable series for a national not-for-profit organization, ASCEND. 

Lilly Huang, Senior Director SOX

Lilly Huang, Senior Director of SOAProjects works closely with management and external auditors for IPO and other technology companies to ensure the company is SOX compliant. Joining SOAProjects in August 2006,  she is a recognized senior member in a company now passing a 5 year milestone. With employees growing beyond 186 and 72 clients, Lilly is a key player in providing consulting services in Accounting, Finance, IT, Internal Audit, SOX, M&A, and Pre-IPO.
Lilly Huang is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley with a BS, and BA in Business Administration and Economics.  Among her many professional networks, Lilly is known to the Silicon Valley Chapters of ISACA and the IIA.

Alan Chipman, Senior Director of IT Consulting and Risk Management.

Robin Basham, Director Enterprise Technology and GRC

Robin Basham is recognized across major industries as an ICT Enterprise and GRC expert. With experience in Data Center Design and Implementation, Enterprise Solutions from data driven workflow to infrastructure and compliance, Ms. Basham is positioned to assist SOAProjects clients in GRC and Green Tech initiatives, aligning with every aspect of the IT Enterprise.  Past Control Solutions International Director Regulatory Consulting, International Standards Expert, Banking Technology Operations Officer, and Master Educator, Ms. Basham's Certifications & Accreditations include ITIL, CobiT, Networking, Java Enterprise, Information Audit, Archer and Security. Past and present seats in Technical Advisory, Executive leadership and Steering Committees include ISACA, OASIS, OMG, ACGTA and AWC.  Her Degrees include two Bachelors from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Master’s from Lesley College in Cambridge, and a second Masters in Enterprise Technology from American InterContinental University.  Projects include facilitating regulatory compliance within Siemens, Raytheon, CitiStreet, The Options Clearing Corporation, Financial Times Interactive Data, State Street, SanDisk, CA, AON, Pegasystems, Informa, Journal Communications, Sharp, MA/Com, and Orbotech, McKesson and OmniVision Technologies. Ms. Basham is the creator of Facitated Compliance Management software and is the sole owner of Phoenix Business and Systems Process, which she now brings in its entirety to SOAProjects.

Ruth Shirkey, Director of Tax

Ruth is a Director of Tax at SOAProjects with over 20 years of experience mainly from the Big 4 accounting firms.  Ruth is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the AICPA.    Beginning in 1990 with KPMG, then from 1999 with PricewaterhouseCoopers and finally with Deloitte Tax in 2007.  She has worked with every size of corporation, from start-ups to multinational companies in industries such as semiconductor, software, hardware and life sciences.  Ruth has extensive experience with federal, state & international tax compliance, FAS 109, FIN 48, multi-state nexus involving income and sales tax, R & D credit, NOL Limitation studies and M & A activities (Domestic & International).  Ruth has worked closely with both public and private companies, where she has developed a keen understanding of the tax needs of companies, especially for companies where little or no in-house tax expertise was available.  She is the go-to person for all of her clients and she brings a vast amount of experience and expertise in the tax area whenever a tax issue would come up.

Kaushik Raha, Director Business Risk Advisory Services

Kaushik is a Director in the Business Risk Advisory Services group at SOAProjects, Inc. He has several years of experience in public accounting with various Big 4 consulting firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young before joining the SOAProjects Advisory practice. His professional exposure covers various areas of financial statement expertise from financial statement audit to business risk consulting. In the consulting capacity, he has worked with clients on internal audit projects, contract risk advisory projects and fraud investigations.

Kaushik has extensive experience in advising clients in the semiconductor, software, bio-tech and other hi-tech space in matters of license compliance, royalty recovery, joint venture participation, channel distribution programs, vendor compliance, contract manufacturer compliance, supply chain management and contract litigation support work. He has led several projects in the above-mentioned areas in US, UK, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Spain, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Israel, UAE and India. Kaushik is a Chartered Accountant and is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Licensing Executive Society.