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Asena People.


Our U.S. advisory team has extensive experience in servicing the needs of private clients, global families and international companies. Please click on the links below to read more about their biographies.

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Abigail Ajala

Has experience providing tax advisory service to Individual and small business domestic clients. Abigail is a member of the AFO...

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Andy Walshe

Andy is a globally recognized leader and expert in the field of elite human performance, his experience runs the gamut...

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Arin Vahanian

Arin is currently the Managing Director and Head of Tax at Asena Family Office. He specializes in foreign corporations, foreign...

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Bharat Bansal

His commitment to ensuring the provision of top-notch services to clients reflects his unwavering dedication to customer delight. Bharat’s proficiency...

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Cesar Tolico

Cesar likes direct and honest communication and looks for every legal way to help clients minimize US tax or maximize...

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Cory Giese

Cory is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in California and Nevada.  He holds dual under-graduate degrees in Accounting and Finance...

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David Calvert Jones

Based in Los Angeles, David owns a number of companies and has a broad range of experience understanding the private...

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David Tye

During his 46-year career, David started with the UK Ministry of Defence and then with major US and Japanese Banks...

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Janpriya Rooprai

Janpriya is a seasoned professional and focuses her practice on cross-border tax planning, including mergers, acquisitions and structuring for global...

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Jean-dré Tombisa

Jean-dré is a tax consultant with experience in tax residency and various cross-border transactions. Based in South Africa and a...

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Lachlin Miller

Miller is an Australian citizen that is living in the US managing the investment strategy for a family office with...

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Matt Wren

Matt Wren is also a founding member of the General Partnership that manages the Asena Capital Advisors Opportunity Fund. The...

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Peter Harper

Peter’s core focus is extracting value for founders and family offices, and he believes in a ‘Stakeholder Framework’ to deal...

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Peter Nathanial

Peter is the former Chief Risk Officer and Member of the Executive Committee for The Royal Bank of Scotland Group...

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Simon Gallagher

Simon has had over 135 consulting clients in 20 countries including the world’s leading media companies, investment funds and consulting...

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Shaun Vanderkaap

During his 10 year career in the US, his experiences include: Selling directly to US SMBs Launching an integrated partnership...

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Mallika Dutta

Proficiency in following software and returns: Tax Act, and Lacerte Personal tax returns 1040, 1040-NR Business tax returns 1120-C &...

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Manisha Gupta

Proficiency in following software’s: Xero, Quickbooks, Ultra Tax, Pro Series, Tax Act, and Lacerte Seasoned in Compilation Personal tax returns...

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Maroof Husain

Proficiency in following software’s: Xero, Quickbooks, Tax Act, and Lacerte Seasoned in Compilation Personal tax returns 1040, 1040-NR Business tax...

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Prue Smith

Prue has over 16 years of progressive tax & accounting experience both in Australia and Germany. A registered tax agent,...

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Pulkit Rustagi

Proficiency in following software and returns: Tax Act Lacerte Personal tax returns 1040, 1040-NR Business tax returns 1120-C & 1120-S...

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Upasana Kumari

Upasana has completed her Bachelor of Commerce(Hons) from Delhi University, India in the year 2018....

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Vipul Gupta

He has also done diploma in IFRS from ACCA and is also LEAN Certified (Six Sigma). Vipul is a young,...

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