Learn about our Team and Culture
We are a team of dedicated professionals, ready to do whatever it takes to make your business grow
Karndeep Sandhu
Karndeep Sandhu CPA,CA is one of the founding partners of SDVC LLP, Chartered Accountants. He has over 12 years of public accounting experience, working extensively with private businesses across various industries. Karndeep has experience providing corporate and personal tax strategies for family-owned businesses and entrepreneurs. Furthermore, Karndeep is an experienced tax advisor. He specializes in purchase and sale transactions, corporate reorganizations, estate planning, income splitting, and discretionary family trusts.
Karndeep Sandhu graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with Honours. Karndeep began his career working with Collins Barrow, where he worked in the audit and assurance department. He later moved BDO Canada LLP where he eventually grew into his role of a Tax Manager. It was at BDO Canada LLP that Karndeep developed the necessary skillset to become a prominent tax specialist
Karndeep has completed the CICA’s In-Depth Tax Course. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO), Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) and the Canadian Tax Foundation.
Sarb Cheema
Sarb Cheema, CPA, CGA, is one of the founding partners of SDVC LLP, Chartered Accountants. He graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University and began his career in public practice. He went on to work for various private companies focusing on tax and financial planning. He has extensive experience in setting up tax structures and wealth management strategies for large client portfolios including professionals (doctors, lawyers, IT consultants, etc.) and small businesses (restaurants, transportation, etc.). Working with a diverse range of clients, his approach is to get to know the business first-hand by listening and understanding the clients’ financial concerns. He continually builds on his strong tax knowledge base by attending conferences and keeping up to date with CRA releases.
How Sarb Cheema would describe himself: "I go above and beyond for each and every client. This starts with me answering the phone and responding to emails. I work with a diverse range of clients and understand the importance of customer service. I build a relationship with each client by listening and understanding their goals and financial concerns."
Pat Kenney
Pat Kenney, CPA, CA, holds a bachelor’s degree in Administrative and Commercial Studies from the University of Western Ontario. He joined SDVC LLP in January 2017 after an 11 year stint in public accounting at a local CPA firm. Since obtaining his CPA designation, Pat has earned a reputation amongst colleagues, clients and complimentary service providers as being highly technically proficient – Pat either has the solution to your financial problem or knows where to find it.
Pat’s local firm background has led to working on a wide spectrum of engagements in considerable depth: IFRS public company audits (mineral exploration and mining, tech, wholesale distribution and manufacturing in particular), go-public/prospectus/business acquisition report type transactions, investment industry audits (broker-dealers, exempt market dealers, portfolio managers, investment funds), audits of registered charities and not-for-profit organizations, ASPE audits and reviews of privately owned businesses and notice-to-reader compilation engagements. Not to mention all related corporate, personal and trust income tax planning and compliance work.
This breadth of experience allows Pat to engage meaningfully with most any client need. Pat’s professional mandate is in delivering broad financial planning solutions to his clients – well beyond the central tax and accounting. To that end, Pat’s most successful clients consult him on all significant financial challenges and opportunities. It’s not uncommon for a tax or accounting themed meeting to veer into matters of retirement planning, insurance needs and everything finance in between.
Outside of the office Pat is passionate in his volunteer efforts with CPA Canada’s Community Connect Financial Literacy Program. As a guest speaker in public libraries and local organizations, Pat presents on a wide array of financial literacy topics. In this capacity, Pat was nominated for the 2016 CPA Canada Financial Literacy Volunteer award.
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