Paritosh Gambhir

Partner, Financial Services

KPMG Lower Gulf

Paritosh is an Audit Partner in the Financial Services practice at KPMG Lower Gulf (UAE and Oman). Prior to joining the Lower Gulf firm, he was a Partner with KPMG in Canada. Paritosh specializes in banking and asset management, and serviced a wide range of clients in Canada, including Schedule 1, 2 and 3 banks, trust companies, fintech companies, and hedge and mutual funds. His experience includes personal and commercial banking, credit risk, securitizations and wealth management. Paritosh brings years of experience supporting investment funds, including Canadian reporting issuer funds, with a particular focus on exchange traded funds, pooled funds and hedge funds. More recently, he was involved with blockchain technology solutions and was the National Lead for Blockchain technology solutions in Canada. He was also the Audit Innovation Leader for Toronto. Prior to joining KPMG in Canada in 2004, he was with KPMG in Zambia. His areas of expertise include personal and commercial banking, credit risk, wealth management, pooled funds, hedge funds, offshore hedge funds, accounting, audit, blockchain.

  • CPA and CA, Canada

  • Associate Chartered Management Accountant, U.K.

  • CPA, U.S.A

  • Member of the OSC Fintech Advisory Committee – 2018 and 2019

  • Member of the Operations Committee, Canadian ETF Association

  • Member of the Token Alliance, Chamber of Digital Commerce

  • Treasurer, Youth Challenge International

  • Part of the board of directors, Private Capital Markets Association