Chartered Accountant and Certified Fraud examiner, he specializes in fraud detection and forensic investigations. He is also a Certified Internal Auditor and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He has served on the board of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (India Chapter) and India Merchants Chamber. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Tarneja Award 2003 for the best article on fraud awarded by the Bombay Management Associations and the PM Trivedi Memorial Prize for the best feature on Standard Auditing Practice in the Bombay Chartered Accountants Society's journal.

Fellow Chartered Accountant - ICAI, Associate – ISCA, Registered Accountant MIA, Diploma in Computer Management

35 years experience in 5 countries across Asia Pacific

Strong knowledge of entry strategies including M&A, greenfield, acquisition, joint ventures in emerging markets

B.Com (Mumbai University)-1980

FCA (Fellow Chartered Accountant-ICAI) -1985

During last 35 years carried out innumerable Investigations on Frauds and White-Collar crimes in India and Internationally covering various Industry Types spread over Government and Non-Government Companies including Banks, Financial Companies, Manufacturing Units, Services Companies, Insurance Companies,etc.

He is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 2012. He is currently a director with Chetan Dalal Investigations and Management Services and has worked on numerous cases across sectors. Sarang is also a faculity member for the workshops and training conducted by CDIMS.

B.Sc., FCA, AIIA (USA) – Associate member of Institute of Internal Auditors, CFE – Member of Certified Fraud Examiner, USA, AHIA – Member of Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, USA, Member of Indian Council of Arbitration, Member of Trade and Commerce Bodies such as ASSOCHAM.

Has 40+ years of experience of statutory audits of large public and private corporates and in Tax advisory. Investigated and supervised various assignments of fraud findings and prevention of frauds across all industries.Played leadership roles by mentoring large teams, serving global & developing practice innovations.Presented papers and given lectures on Forensics at CBI Academy, C&AG and Fiji Independent commission against corruption.

B. Com (Mumbai); -2009 - M. Com (Mumbai)-2011- FCA (Fellow Chartered Accountant) - 2018 - ICAI Certification course on Anti-Money Laundering Laws (Anti Money Laundering Specialist) – 2020.

10 Years of Overall Professional Experience - 8 years of Forensic Audit and Accounting, Internal Audits & Risk Assessment experience.

Mahesh is a BCom, FCA and CISA. He has been in consultancy of Finance, Audits and Investigations for the last 23 years. He has been a regular faculty member for certification courses on Fraud investigations and Forensic accounting conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants on India. He has also contributed to the various research papers and articles published by ICAI/BCAS.

He has over two decades of experience as a qualified chartered accountant from Mumbai, and has contributed in topics related to field investigations and third party inquiries.

He has contributed on topics relating to interviewing, interrogation and several case studies in different chapters of the book. He has been assisting Chetan Dalal in all his investigations and is an integral part of his team with over 12 years of investigations' experience of white collar crime.

He is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 2011. As a team member he has worked on many cases across various sectors of the industries.

Hiral Sheth is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India since 2012. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner. She is actively associated with team CDIMS and has participated in couple of investigations.