Archives: Speakers

Shane has dedicated over three decades to the accounting profession, creating a global community where accountants transform their firms, deliver meaningful value to clients, and enrich both their own and their clients’ lives.

Accountants working with Shane build profitable, future-ready firms that run smoothly without their constant input — firms that escape outdated methods, overwhelming workloads, and fee-sensitive clients for good. Shane and his team of Practice Growth Experts guide accountants in mastering value pricing, attracting quality clients, and applying mechanisms that reduce hours and pressure while growing profits.

Shane’s accolades include the Top Educators and Content Creators Award, Speaker of the Year 2026 at the Accounting Business Growth Awards, keynote appearances for multiple accounting governing bodies, and a TEDx talk. He is also the author of multiple international bestselling books for accountants, including Putting Excellence Into (Your) Practice and What’s Next For Accountants?

Caleb Bryant serves as the North America Category and Insights Manager at SIG, where he helps translate consumer, product, and market signals into actionable growth strategies. He works across both CPG food and beverage and foodservice industries, identifying key trends shaping category performance and uncovering opportunities for innovation and expansion. His work helps bridge data and decision-making, enabling SIG and its business partners to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Caleb turns complex data into clear strategic direction, with a particular interest in how innovation is reshaping dairy and broader beverage categories. Prior to joining SIG, Caleb held insights roles at Circana, Mintel, and Datassential, where he built deep expertise in consumer research, category analysis, POS data analytics, and food and beverage market dynamics.

Muaiad Kittaneh, MD, MBA, FACP, is the Global Head of R&D and Scientific Strategy at Syneos Health. Dr. Kittaneh is a board-certified hematologist, medical oncologist and internist with deep expertise in oncology drug development, scientific strategy and global clinical operations. Throughout his career, he has led complex oncology programs spanning the full development continuum, from first-in-human studies and experimental therapeutics to global registration and lifecycle management. His areas of focus include innovative trial design, regulatory strategy, biomarker-driven development and precision medicine, with particular experience in cell and gene therapies, radiopharmaceuticals and other emerging oncology modalities.

Arnab Roy has 12+ years of experience working closely with global senior leadership teams across Strategy, Business Development and Marketing roles driving profitable growth for businesses. in his current role as the Global Business Development Manager for ABB Motion Energy Efficiency team, he leads business development efforts to increase adoption of energy efficiency solutions across industries to help them run leaner operations at lower cost while meeting their sustainability goals. 

Passionate, driven and an established business and industry leader in digital transformation. Garry has a broad experience in the construction industry including production, design management and digital construction. His current role as Digital Project Solution Business Partner for BAM Construction and FM supporting a 100 strong digital team delivering a broad range of Digital Management, Digital Engineering, Information Management and Data & Analytics services to the business and supporting BAM UK&I Transformation Roadmap.

Garry’s influence extends to the wider industry in terms of published thought leadership articles in trade and chairs the P23 digital working group.

Trevor joined Azets in December 2025. He is a highly experienced, award-winning technology and transformation leader with a proven track record of delivering large-scale change across private equity-backed, listed, and global organisation. Trevor excels in enabling business growth through the strategic application of technology, data and digital capability – focused on performance, customer satisfaction and operational resilience

As Group CIO, Trevor leads Azets’ international technology function and is responsible for the Group’s digital strategy, technology operations and enterprise technology roadmap. He drives the continued development of the Group’s digital services capabilities, enhancing efficiency, collaboration, cybersecurity and resilience, while ensuring technology plays a pivotal role in enabling growth across every part of the business

“Hi, I’m Will. I lead Financial Services Growth at Atombit. We help our customers orchestrate Data, Analytics, AI & Automation to deliver guaranteed ROI & measurable outcomes for customer experience, whilst strengthening profitability and compliance.

Conner leads North American CRO partnerships at Biorce, home of Aika, the most advanced AI intelligence platform for clinical trials available. Aika helps research teams create data driven documents including study protocols, informed consent forms in 123 languages, clinical study reports, and investigator brochures with so much more on the way. From startup to closeout, Aika saves months of planning and research time to help teams move faster with confidence.

Ayman is RVP of EMEA at Laurel, an AI-powered legal time capture and intelligence platform. He started his sales career in SaaS selling IP software at PatSnap, then was one of the founding members of Everlaw’s UK office, serving the eDiscovery market. He then built, scaled, and ran a 55-person sales org at Multiverse, focused on delivering technology adoption initiatives. He joined Laurel to spearhead the UK and EMEA expansion.