Leadership team
Setting the standards for success
The firm’s partners play a central role in guiding strategy, maintaining audit quality, and strengthening relationships with clients, regulators, and development partners across East and Central Africa.
Drawn from diverse professional backgrounds and sectors, our partner group provides direction on technical standards, risk management frameworks, and operational priorities. Their experience spans public sector transformation programmes, donor-funded assignments, financial services, infrastructure projects, and private sector advisory engagements across the region.
Through regular leadership coordination and regional collaboration, the partners ensure that Baker Tilly Merali’s continues to deliver services aligned with international best practice while responding to local regulatory and market environments.
The Leadership team
Our leadership team brings together deep regional experience and global technical capability to guide organizations through complex regulatory environments, donor-funded programmes, and evolving business challenges across East Africa.
Mahmud P K Merali
Group Executive Partner
Madhav Bhandari
Managing Partner
Dr. John Mucheru
Partner - Public Sector
Sachan Benawra
Director - Consulting
Priya Chavda
Director - Private Sector
Our People and Culture
We pride ourselves in having a highly qualified and professional staff who come well recommended with a business flair, commercial acumen and dynamic approach. They work as a cohesive team with our clients and with each other. They share our aims and commitment to provide quality business solutions and advice for every one of our prestigious and varied clients. A variety of different and exotic cultures within our organization leads to an open, creative, effective and efficient work environment, wherein our people are happy, comfortable and proud to work. This creates a rich pool of talent within our organization enabling us to provide exceptional services to our esteem clients.