Confederation of Asian & Pacific Accountants (CAPA) to speak at the upcoming ISIA Congress in September

The Institute of Solomon Islands Accountants (ISIA) welcomes the Chief Executive, CAPA Mr Brian Blood to present at the upcoming Congress next month. Mr Blood is an international guest speaker and will be speaking on “Inclusivity and Growing Together – Developing a robust ISIA – What it takes for the profession to be successful and contributing towards society and economic success, including a focus on accountants in the public sector”.

Brian has been Chief Executive since September 2009 and was previously with global Big 4 accounting firms for 27 years in the United Kingdom and Australia, including 16 years as a Partner.

He commenced his career with Arthur Andersen in London, England and transferred to Sydney, Australia in 1985, later joining Ernst & Young.  As an audit partner he worked with many large, multinational corporations. In his last ten years as a partner, he worked increasingly with public sector clients, in both an audit and advisory capacity.

He is currently an independent chair or member on a number of Australian state-government audit and risk committees in planning, environment, transport, health and emergency services sectors.

 The entities are significant in size, some with over 10,000 employees or with assets worth billions of dollars.

Brian was the President of CPA Australia in 2002. In 2003, he was honoured with a Centenary Medal for services to the accounting profession in Australia.