Organizing Committee
Kareen Brown – Professor of Accounting
Kareen Brown holds a PhD from the University at Buffalo, an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Illinois, and a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. In 2013, she began teaching at the Goodman School of Business as an Assistant Professor and became an Associate Professor in 2016. She teaches accounting theory and external financial reporting courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Brown holds the Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA/CGA) designation and is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA).
Brown has been a member of the CPA/Goodman Institute for International Issues in Accounting Advisory Council, and the Goodman Centre for Business Analytics Committee. She is an editorial board member of Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) and has been a reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Committee (SSHRC).
Sohyung Kim – Associate Professor of Accounting
Sohyung Kim received his PhD from the University of British Columbia, a MS in Accounting from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a BBA from Seoul National University, Korea. Kim began teaching at the Goodman School of Business in 2010. He currently teaches financial accounting for undergraduate as well as graduate students. He was the recipient of the 2013/2014 Professor of the Year Award, Graduate level, selected by the Brock University Business Students’ Association. Before moving to North America, he was an instructor at Korea Accounting and Information School in Seoul, Korea.
Jennifer Li – Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Accounting
Jingyu (Jennifer) Li began teaching at the Goodman School of Business in 2003. She holds a PhD in accounting from Massey University, a MAcc from Missouri State University, and a BA in English Literature from Beijing Normal University. She also holds the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Ontario certification, and teaching certificates from Massey University and Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. At Goodman, Li served as a member of the IMAcc and MAcc curriculum review committees, the undergraduate program committee, and the CPA accreditation committee. She was the Director of the Confucius Institute at Brock University (CIBU), an organization dedicated to the appreciation of Chinese culture, supporting the cultural needs of the University and beyond. She is currently the Associate Dean – Undergraduate Programs. Li is on the editorial board of Journal of Economic Science Research. Periodically, she peer-reviews for the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference.
Parunchana Pacharn – Associate Professor of Accounting
Parunchana Pacharn teaches courses in external reporting and financial accounting. She holds a PhD and MSc in accounting from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA from Ohio State University, and a BBA from Thammasat University. She joined the Goodman School of Business in 2007 as an Assistant Professor, and became an Associate Professor in 2012. Previously, she was also an Assistant Professor at the School of Management at the State University of New York (Buffalo). At Goodman, Pacharn has served as a member of many faculty committees, including the MAcc Program Committee, the Accounting Department Recruiting Committee, and the Faculty Qualifications Committee. Full profile.
Simon Suwanyangyuan – Assistant Professor of Accounting
Dr. Simon Suwanyangyuan joined the faculty of the Goodman School of Business in 2018. He received his PhD in Business Administration (Accounting) from Simon Fraser University, a MS in Accounting from the University of Rochester and a BAcc with an auditing concentration from Chulalongkorn University.
Prior to working in academia, Dr. Suwanyangyuan worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Thailand) as an audit assistant, during which time he obtained his CPA (Thailand) designation. He has also been an accounting lecturer at Chulalongkorn University and Simon Fraser University.
Frank Guarascio – Senior Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Frank Guarascio is a senior partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, one of Canada’s leading law firms and has been practicing Corporate and Business Law for over 35 years. Frank’s primary focus is on transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments and other major transactional work. He has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and managing acquisitions and divestitures of both private and public companies. He has advised Canadian and multinational clients in many sectors, including food and beverage, agribusiness, technology, consumer products, financial services and manufacturing. Frank also has significant experience with private equity firms and structuring private equity investments. He regularly advises sponsors, managers, pension funds and other institutional investor clients on their private equity and real estate investments. Frank has been recognized as a leading Canadian lawyer in several publications, including Lexpert, Best Lawyers in Canada, Thomson Reuters and International Financial Law Review. Frank has written in the area of mergers and acquisitions, has made presentations on negotiating the acquisition of private companies for the Canadian Institute and the Osgoode Hall Law School professional development program and is an instructor of Commercial Law at the Goodman School of Business.