Irshad, Mohamed

Mohamed Irshad comes with 16 years of international audit experience. Having started his career in 2004 in PwC Dubai’s external audit practice, he moved to Paris as a Global Internal Auditor in Schneider Electric. He is currently the Head of Global Internal Audit for the Americas hub in Schneider Electric and is based in Calgary, Canada.

Irshad holds a Bachelor’s in Commerce degree from the University of Madras in India, is a Certified Internal Auditor, a CPA, CGA and a Fellow of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK). Irshad is on the IIA Calgary Chapter’s Board of Governors and is the Vice Chair of the ACCA Canada Members Network Panel.

An advocate of diversity, he believes this leads to the generation of great ideas, fairness and positively impacts employee engagement and retention. He leads an internal audit team that is balanced in terms of gender, ethnicity, internally vs externally recruited profiles, academic and professional background, work experience and age groups.

Irshad was born in Dubai, has lived in India, France and now in Canada, and is married to a South African. Beyond this, he has traveled to around 30 countries covering 65 to 70 cities.