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Shalin Parikh
Ahmedabad
Shalin Parikh
Founder & CEO, Entigrity
Building

Entigrity is a leading offshore staffing solutions provider to more than 600+ accounting and tax firms situated across North America (US and CA). The company helps small and mid-sized accounting firms hire qualified and experienced offshore staff that work from our offices in India. 

Shawn founded Entigrity in 2014 and today it works with 600+ Accounting firms in the United States and Canada. And have staffed 1200+ associates for them offshore. Entigrity has helped accounting firms in overcoming staffing challenges and building offshore teams.

Entigrity is an ISO 27001:2013 certified organization for information security, along with ISO 9001:2013 certification for Quality Management. Entigrity is also approved by NASBA, as an education partner of continuing education of CPAs.

Shawn Parikh is the Founder and CEO of Entigrity and myCPE Group. In his role, he is spearheading the company operations, cementing the foundations of Entigrity that works closely and exclusively with the accounting community globally. Shawn also oversees service conceptualization, strategy creation, administration, and finance, at the organization.


With over 15+ years of experience he spearheaded the company operations, forging the foundations of Entigrity that works closely and exclusively with the accounting community.  Shawn’s strategic vision and leadership lead to the expansion and diversification of Entigrity in several areas over the years. Shawn understood numerous staffing related challenges plaguing the accounting community.

Over the time, he has provided consultation/advice to 3000+ accountants and helped them convert some of their core challenges into opportunities. 

Shawn’s is a big advocate of small businesses, He says “Small Businesses are backbone for global economy”and that’s where his focus area was always to help small and mid-size accounting firms. 

In Fact the Idea of Entigrity was born out of the fact that Shawn wanted to help small and mid-size firms by providing them access to global staffing and help them compete with Big 4 and larger firms. Shawn really admires businesses that create or facilitate the creation of micro entrepreneurs like UBER, AIRBNB, Urban Company etc.

These Small and Mid-Size firms cannot come to India and build their own offices as they don't have the deep pockets as of Big 4 firms. And also it would be difficult for them to handle local challenges and attract the talent pool. So they need a trusted partner, a partner who can hire the right people for them, understand their requirements and also can handle the data security confidentiality. 

Shawn has been actively involved in many accounting community events and forums and voicing his thoughts on various subjects in accounting industry, some of them are

  • Remote Working & Offshore Hiring for Accounting firms
  • Practice Management & Development
  • LinkedIn Marketing for Accountants
  • How offshoring can bring Multi-dimensional transformation change in Accounting practices.
  • Subscription based pricing key to scale.
  • How to implement MRR(Monthly Recurring Revenue) in Accounting firms
  • Building a Niche in Accounting Space.
  • Pricing Strategies for Accounting Firms.
  • Cobra Approach to Accounting firms growth
  • Integrating CFO & Advisory services for Accounting firms
  • How Data Analytics is going to be the future for Accounting firms.
  • CAAS ( Clients Accounting and Advisory services ) Implementation in Accounting firms
  • Build a 60% net margin Client Accounting Service Business
  • CAS & Advisory Practice services for accounting firms
  • Accountants need to think like Entrepreneurs
  • Lesson for Accountants from Two COVID tax season.

About myCPE:

Shawn is also a co-founder of myCPE. myCPE is Online Continuing Education Platform. Today this platform has 250,000+ members and is a rapidly developing CPE platform in the United States.

myCPE began its eventful journey in June 2019. Since then, it has never looked back! The first ever webinar held by myCPE gathered 12 attendees, a number which has swollen exponentially over the last 2 years to make myCPE the fastest growing e-learning platform in the USA.

Today, myCPE offers over 5000 hours of content covering practically all topics related to accounting, tax and finance. It is also the only online platform that provides Continuing Education for 50+ titles globally. 30+ live webinars are held daily. 

All the content on myCPE is approved by American regulatory bodies such as the IRS, ASBA, CFP Board, NYSED, TSBPA, SHRM, ACFE, APA and many more. myCPE offers the perfect place for Educators, Speakers, Influencers & Content Creators to build credibility and establish themselves as Subject Matter Experts. 

Realizing and owning up the responsibility to make the world a better place, myCPE has come up with an ingenious and path-breaking concept of 1 credit=1 meal. Under the 1 Credit= 1 Meal program, myCPE provides a free meal to an underserved person for each credit earned on this platform. myCPE has donated 500,000+ meals so far.

Entigrity’s Foundation:

Entigrity Foundation is a purpose led company where one of core focus areas is to have a positive impact on the society and community around us. Entigrity Foundation is principally engaged in two initiatives - Food Kit Distribution and Children Education.

Entigrity Foundation started Food Kit Distribution initiative in Feb 2019. Since Pandemic they have multiplied their efforts and they are distributing 250 Food Kits a week to underserved and less fortunate. They have distributed more than 10000+ food kits and we are still continuing our efforts.

In the area of Children Education they have taken a pledge that for every remote staff getting hired, they will adopt education of 1 Child. They started this last year in May 2019 and so far they are supporting 300+ underprivileged children in their fees and education.


Favorite books/websites/podcasts/speakers that you find influential:
Books: 

  1. Annual Letters of Berkshire Hathway          
  2. The Wealthy Accountant
  3. Putting Stories to Work: Shawn Callahan
  4. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita
  5. Coffee Can Investing: Saurabh Mukherjee
  6. The Competitive Advantage: Michael Porter
  7. The Intelligent Investor: Ben Graham
  8. Preaching’s of Shree Krishna
  9. Blue Ocean Shift Beyond Competing


Podcasts: 

1.  How to Implement Subscription Based Pricing for Accounting Firms.

2. How To Run Your Accounting firm Like a SAAS Business | Monthly Recurring Revenue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7gjC1H1VYI&t=100s

3.    Successfully Integrating Your Offshore and Onsite Teams.
 
4.    How Offshoring Staffing Solves 70% of Your Problems.
 
5.    Is Bigger Actually Better?
 
6.    Is Your Firm Sustainable for the Future?
 
7.    How Pandemic has changed the Stigma on Offshore Hiring of Accounting Firms.

Bhavin S Bhagat
Ahmedabad
Bhavin S Bhagat
Co-Founder & CEO · Indiabizforsale
Building

I worked in the pharmaceutical sector in various roles with a focus on business development, account management in the first part of my career between 2000 to 2015 in India and Europe. Priya and I started indiabizforsale.com together in the year 2013 as a company and launched as a platform in early 2014. 

We started indiabizforsale because we experienced and painfully learnt (at that time) that M&A for a small to medium size business is very, very challenging in India, and we decided to do something about that. 

We launched indiabizforsale.com as a discovery platform (with confidentiality so no one knows which business is looking for an exit or partial exit) for businesses and investors. 

Gradually we started building services on top as we realised that the end goal is a successful business transaction and secured discovery is only the part of the process (large though). 

Now we provide discovery, on-demand services and also advisory services with help of trusted and experienced professionals across India. 

Amal Mishra
Bengaluru
Amal Mishra
Co-Founder & CEO, UrbanVault
Building

Amal Mishra is the Founder and CEO of UrbanVault, a game-changing provider of managed office spaces reshaping the commercial real estate landscape with more than 25000 seats in Bangalore. His story reflects the power of bootstrapping backed by the commitment to provide exceptional services to clients.

He holds an undergrad degree in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad. Prior to UrbanVault, he co-founded Livospire, where he gained invaluable experience in the real estate and furniture industry. The hands-on involvement equipped him with a unique blend of expertise that contributes to the innovative solutions at both UrbanVault and Livospire.

In addition, he has served as a Product Manager at Cisco for nearly four years, further honing his skills and knowledge in the technology sector. This experience enables him to bring a strategic perspective and a deep understanding of market trends to UrbanVault.

By combining his background in real estate, furniture, and technology, he brings a comprehensive skill set that drives his ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions to the clients.

Join him and the UrbanVault team in redefining commercial real estate, driving innovation, and shaping the future of work.

#UrbanVault #CommercialRealEstate #Workspaces #Innovation

Aditya Shah
Ahmedabad
Aditya Shah
Founder & CEO, Because
Building

Founder & CEO at Because | Consultant to Education Department, Government of Gujarat | Vidya Samiksha Kendra | Mission Schools of Excellence

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Aditya is a founder of Because – the brand and marketing consultancy and previously spent over 16 years in growing and transforming businesses by creating and executing highly effective marketing strategies at organisations like Sandesh, Educational Initiatives and HBK Group of Schools.

About me: 
I am best known for my creatiwitty, wordplay, puns, talent identification and problem-solving abilities.

Specialties: 
Business Strategy, marketing, branding, advertising, social media, content marketing, team development, business planning, design

About my company:

Because is a consultancy that helps our clients spot the elephant in the room. We question, we challenge and we provide business solutions. We do that by focusing on creating relevant brand and customer experiences and driving accelerated growth strategies. What makes us different is our ability to uncover the underlying needs and motivation of customers and translate those insights into better ideas. Our unique team of thinkers, makers and doers work in a collaborative, multidisciplinary way to bridge the gap between strategy and execution. 

Industries we serve: education, e-commerce, data analytics, real estate, retail

Bhavesh Patel
Ahmedabad
Bhavesh Patel
Co-founder · Brands.live

Co-founder and Advisor, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Series A, backing Pre-seed / seed and Growth, in SaaS + B2B / enterprise + Media / creator.

Building

Building India's Most favourite Branding and Business Growth tool Brands.live which help them to go digital first in just seconds. With 10M Downloads leading the MSME content space with power of Ai for Bharat. Raised Funds from Indian Quotient and DevX. Looking for partnership.

Hoping to meet
  • Startups to invest in
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
  • Founders & operators in my city
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