Expert Trainers

V Pattabhi Ram

Author, public speaker and teacher

Pattabhi Ram is a chartered accountant by profession and qualification, a writer by passion, and a teacher by accidental choice. After a brief stint at a couple of corporates, where he worked in their corporate finance, capital market, and management accounting functions, he shifted to full-time CA practice.

He is a co-founder of Yogananda & Ram, a multi-location firm with a team strength of 80+. Also, he is part of the faculty team of Prime Academy, a CA training institution, which he co-founded with two others.

In these several years, he has been into journalism: writing for newspapers and magazines of repute on contemporary issues and have appeared on television.

He co-authored First Lessons In Strategic Financial Management, a book for CA students, which was an ICAI recommended textbook. The other books that he wrote include Roadmap, CA to CEO,A few good men, and a maiden novel, Ticking Times. He also speaks at various seminars and workshops internationally.

Venkatesh Athreya

Chartered Accountant by profession,
Coach, Mentor & Author

Venkatesh Athreya is a chartered accountant by profession; Coach, Mentor & Author by passion. He is the author of “50 secrets to a fantastic life and career”. He is personally coached and mentored by top coaches and institutions worldwide (Chad Hall, Nicholas lore, BJ Fogg, Michael Gerber, Gallup, MBTI, to name a few).

He is the founder of the Happy Employee Community & on a mission to help 1 Million Employees achieve more Happiness and success through our Happiness system, Happiness challenges and Happiness community.

He also works with youth in designing their best version and a happy career

Shivanand Pandit

Finance and Tax Adviser & Author

Shivanand Pandit is an autonomous Finance and Tax Adviser, a writer by zeal and a reader by passion. He has 25 years of experience in the field of Finance, Accounting, Taxation laws, Cost management, Wealth management, Audit, Corporate and Banking laws. He is a winner of National Merit Scholarship and many other prizes in various quiz, essay and elocution competitions. He has contributed over 130 articles to more than fifty magazines and newspapers.

He has authored the book BEGIN TO WIN, a comprehensive guide for personality development, which has secured First rank twice in a National level sales contest and topped the Notion Press publication’s Top selling books. He has authored one Kannada book which talks about virtues of ideal life. He was also in the writing team of four books namely Flying High which talks about success stories of 12 male chartered accountants, Nightingales which talks about success stories of 12 female chartered accountants, Beyond 2020 which talks about 25 happening careers in Accounting and Finance and Emerging trends in Education which talks about 10 new trends in learning and education sector.

He is a public speaker and conducts corporate training programs, motivational seminars, financial, taxation and investment planning seminars all over India. He is a guest faculty for few commerce colleges of Goa and runs a coaching institute for commerce students from pre-university to post-graduation. Pandit runs two institutes namely Apex Financial Advisory Services and Winners Coaching Point in the State of Goa.