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BPM Welcomes Ashwani Verma as Partner and Leader of its RAAS Practice
[August 03, 2017]

BPM Welcomes Ashwani Verma as Partner and Leader of its RAAS Practice


BPM announced today Ashwani Verma has joined the Firm to lead its Risk Assurance and Advisory (RAAS) Practice.

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Ashwani Verma, Partner, Risk Assurance & Advisory Services Group Leader (Photo: Business Wire)

Ashwani Verma, Partner, Risk Assurance & Advisory Services Group Leader (Photo: Business Wire)

"Ashwani has more than 17 years of experience in providing internal audit and risk advisory services-both in industry and within public accounting. He is an expert in internal audit strategy, enterprise risk management, SOX compliance, IT assurance, and regulatory compliance," said Brian Finnegan, BPM's Assurance Practice Group Leader.

"He has a distinguished record of accomplishment and new business generation. The marketplace remains strong, and we are very excited about BPM's position in it under Ashwani's leadership."

Mr. Verma has served in leadership roles in internal audit and compliance at several large organizations, including PwC, Molina Healthcare and Deloitte (News - Alert) & Touche, LLP. He joins BPM from PwC where he served as Managing Director ofRisk Assurance. Prior to PwC, Ashwani was Head of Internal Audit at Molina Healthcare with enterprise wide responsibilities of internal audit, SOX compliance and enterprise risk management.



"I am honored to lead the RAAS Practice for an organization as well regarded and innovative as BPM," said Verma.

"The suite of comprehensive service offerings under RAAS are well positioned to meet the needs of our clients in this dynamic and rapidly changing economic landscape. I look forward to strengthening BPM's current offerings, and advancing it by delivering world class service our clients have come to expect."


BPM's RAAS Practice provides comprehensive risk assurance counsel to emerging growth, late stage, private and public companies. Advisors within the group have extensive experience in internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) readiness and implementation, IT auditing, information security and more.

BPM is named to Accounting Today's "Beyond the Top 100 Firms to Watch" list as one of the Top 10 Firms in the West. BPM is also the winner of Inavero's 2016 Best Accounting in Client Satisfaction, an honor less than 1% of all accounting firms in the U.S. and Canada earned for providing exemplary client service.

To learn more about BPM's Risk Assurance & Advisory Services (RAAS), click here.

About BPM

Founded in 1986, BPM is one of the largest California-based public accounting and advisory firms, ranked as one of the 50 major firms in the country. With six offices across the Bay Area - as well as offices in Oregon, Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands - we serve emerging, mid-cap, and closely-held businesses as well as high-net-worth individuals in a broad reach of industries. From financial services, technology, life science and consumer business to real estate, nonprofits, wine and craft beverages, we are committed to the success of our clients. Our International Tax Practice is one of the largest on the West Coast and our well-recognized SEC (News - Alert) Practice serves approximately 35 public reporting companies. We are listed as one of the "Best Public Accounting Firms for Women," and the San Francisco Business Times, North Bay Business Journal and Silicon Valley Business Journal all list BPM as one of the "Best Places to Work." Accounting Today ranked us as the #1 "Best Firm to Work for" in the nation, in the Large Firm Category, and one of the Top 10 Firms in the West. We have been recognized by Inavero as a "Best of Accounting" winner for client service excellence - an honor less than 1% of all accounting firms in the U.S. and Canada earned, for providing exemplary client service. Most recently, Vault.com ranked us as the #1 Firm for Diversity and Minorities, and #21 in the 2018 Vault Accounting 50. To learn more, visit us at bpmcpa.com.


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