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Joshua Gogo PhD, CMC, ICD.D, CFA
President/Chief Economist
In the past 24 years Joshua worked as an Engineer, Economist, a Financial Analyst and Computer Scientist with diverse and extensive experience around the world.
Joshua currently focuses on developing and implementing strategy, planning, economics, corporate finance, insolvency & restructuring, and risk management solutions to complex multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder challenges for individuals, investors, private and public organizations globally.
He has successfully supported, advised and led investor and corporate efforts in private equity investment structuring, venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, insolvency, restructuring, start-ups, organizational reengineering, market access, debt & creditor negotiations and refinancing, fintech and digital transformation. He is also a visiting university professor in energy and petroleum economics, policy, regulation and strategic studies.
As Chief Economist/President Global Advisory & Transaction Support at Afcote Associates, Joshua provides and oversees due diligence, forensic economics, insolvency and restructuring, transaction support, wind-down & liquidation, corporate finance, structured finance, leadership development, transfer pricing, economic & financial analysis, investment performance monitoring and management, market research, economic & financial modeling, tax planning & optimization and ESG solutions and services globally.
Joshua had served in a number of executive level positions including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer and Vice President in globally.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical/Petrochem Engineering; MSc in Computer Information Systems; MA and PhD in Economics. He is a CFA® charterholder of the CFA Institute, Chartered Investment Manager, Fellow of Canadian Securities Institute, a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), a member of the and Institute Corporate Directors (ICD.D), a Certified Balanced Scorecard Professional.
Joshua was featured in the 2020 The Top 100 Canadian Professionals Magazine.
- Phone:+1 (780) 607-3968
- Email:advisory@afcote.com
Promise Sanipe, CPA, CGA, MA
Senior Partner
Promise is an expert in financial and taxation analytics and related algorithm development and maintenance. He brings deep insight into fintech and related platform data analytics and the transformation of business analytics into data-driven strategic policy initiatives.
Promise Sanipe brings 30 years of work experience and discipline from both the private and the public sectors. Following base experience as retail accountant in the wholesale business sector, he moved into statutory/forensic audits, including international tax transactions, transfer pricing, tax compliance and verification for the Canada Revenue Agency.
Promise also practiced as a financial economist with Statistics Canada in their industrial organization and finance division where he was one of the lead writers of the agency’s financial and taxation statistics for enterprises publication.
Promise brings a 20-year experience around business data analytics, data visualization and data research and manipulation in platform-based and digital economies, data risk management, and was lead in training/mentorship of several junior analysts and auditors.
Promise Sanipe holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a master’s degree in Economics. He is a Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Ontario, Canada.
Promise is Chief Business Development Officer at Afcote Associates and Head of Practice for Tax Planning, Tax Compliance/Forensic Audit, Transfer Pricing, Accounting, Data Analytics, Business Transformation and Data Risks Management.
- Phone:+1 (859) 254-6589
- Email:info@example.com