Leadership and team

Named people, verified credentials, and a delivery structure you can see.

A CPA firm needs more than a partner page. Below are the leaders, the reviewers, and the accountability model that governs every deliverable.

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Relationship leadership

Priya Vasu

Primary contact for U.S. CPA firm partnerships

Verification note. Title, credentials, professional background, and the contact address to publish are pending written confirmation. No authentic photograph has been supplied. This profile deliberately shows no portrait rather than an artificial one.

The relationship lead is the person a managing partner calls — at scoping, during the pilot, and after the work is running.

First point of contact for U.S. CPA firms evaluating additional capacity.
Runs capacity discovery: service line, volume, timing, bottlenecks, and the experience level the work requires.
Coordinates NDA, independence, conflict, and security review with the firm's quality and information-security leads.
Sets up the pilot scope, success criteria, and the workflow map with the engagement manager.
Stays on the engagement after launch — status cadence, escalation, scope changes, and scaling decisions.

Leadership

Partners and technical leaders.

Photographs and biographical detail are drawn from Shah Teelani's own published profiles. No portrait on this site is artificially generated.

Jinesh Shah

Managing Partner

F.C.A., LL.B., B.Com.

Chartered Accountant since 2011 and a Fellow member of the ICAI, with a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and a law degree from Gujarat University.

Known for a methodical approach to tax audits and for planning around specific transactions. He has represented clients before tax authorities at every level on complex litigation matters and leads corporate tax advisory, international taxation, and transfer pricing work.

Also experienced in domestic and cross-border transaction structuring, and in estate and trust planning across a diverse portfolio of industries.

Jitendra Teelani

Managing Partner

F.C.A., LL.B., B.Com.

Chartered Accountant since 2011 and a Fellow member of the ICAI, with a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and a law degree from Gujarat University.

Sets the firm's strategic direction and its portfolio of offerings. His experience spans accounting standards and corporate law, giving him a broad view of regulatory environments and business models.

Recognised for work in audit and advisory, internal financial control, management audit, statutory audit, due-diligence review, Ind AS, risk assessment, compliance with laws and regulations, and process review.

Mohit Tapariya

Partner

CPA, CMA

Partner holding the CPA and CMA credentials, supporting the firm's U.S.-facing audit, accounting, and reporting work.

Licence jurisdictions and the specific engagements he signs are listed on request and are confirmed with each CPA firm during independence and licensing review.

Amal Dhru

Financial Consultant

MBA, CA, Author

Financial consultant to the firm, an MBA and Chartered Accountant, and a published author.

Advises on financial consulting, restructuring, and complex accounting matters brought forward from CPA-firm engagements.

Kurian Xavier

Audit & Analytics Lead

Chartered Accountant with experience in audit, financial analytics, and advisory, including prior leadership experience at EY GDS and internal audit exposure at Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

Brings expertise in data-driven audits, automation, internal controls, and financial advisory to the audit-support delivery teams.

Aziz Shaikh

Partner — Systems Audit, Head of Surat Office

A.C.A., M.Com., DISA (ISA 3.0)

Chartered Accountant since 2019 who has completed the post-qualification DISA (ISA 3.0) course, with prior industry experience.

Leads systems audits, fraud detection and prevention, and social audit and ESG assignments — the background that informs the firm's information-security and access-control practices.

Ritu Gupta

Partner — Accounting & Compliance

F.C.A., B.Com. (Eco. Hons.)

Chartered Accountant since 2016, managing accounting, finance, and taxation matters and conducting statutory audits.

Experience includes preparing standard operating procedures and supporting process automation, which carries directly into CAS close and reconciliation delivery.

Jainam Shah

Partner — Head of Mumbai Office

F.C.A., B.Com.

Chartered Accountant since 2015 with extensive expertise in compliance practice.

Heads the Mumbai office and oversees virtual CFO services, forensic audits, and direct and indirect tax litigation.

The firm reports 60+ team members including 10 partners across Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Surat, and other offices. Additional audit, tax, CAS, quality-control, and information-security leads are named for your engagement in the workflow map rather than listed generically here.

Accountability model

The delivery structure, not just the org chart.

Owns the commercial relationship and the CPA firm's single point of contact.

Scope, cadence, escalation path, scaling decisions. Present before, during, and after the pilot.

Global organisation

Which entity, and what it is registered to do.

Chartered Accountant firm, India

Shah Teelani & Associates

Established practice serving clients since 2012, with 60+ team members including 10 partners across Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Surat, and other offices. This is the practice behind the delivery teams.

U.S. entity

Shah Teelani Advisory LLC

The U.S.-facing entity, with a stated mailing address in Manhattan, New York. The precise contracting role of this entity for CPA-firm engagements is being confirmed and will be stated plainly here once documented.

Registered firm

PCAOB Registration No. 7161

PCAOB registration applies to the registered accounting firm, not to individual professionals. The exact registered legal entity associated with Registration No. 7161 must be verified against the PCAOB Registered Firms directory before this page is published. No individual on this site is described as a PCAOB-registered CPA.

Open before publication

Exact legal entity holding PCAOB Registration No. 7161, confirmed against the PCAOB directory.
Which entity a U.S. CPA firm contracts with, and in which jurisdiction.
U.S. CPA licences held and the states in which they are active.
Years in operation: the U.S. site says '15+ years' while the global About page dates the firm from 2012. This site uses 2012 until the discrepancy is resolved.
Priya Vasu's title, credentials, background, and the contact address she authorises for publication.
A U.S. telephone number, office hours, and any scheduling link.
Whether the Manhattan address is a staffed office or a mailing address only.
Named tax and audit software the delivery teams are trained on.