Fayez A. Elayan holds a PhD in Finance from Louisiana State University, an MBA in Finance and Investments from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Jordan. He began teaching at the Goodman School of Business in 2004 as an Associate Professor, became a Professor in 2009, and is currently the Chair of the Accounting department.

He has also been an Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University and Northeast Louisiana University, an Associate Professor at Southwest Missouri State University and a Professor at Massey University in New Zealand. At Goodman, Elayan has taught courses in accounting theory, financial accounting, and tax strategy in the undergraduate programs, and corporate governance, advanced accounting theory, research methods, financial accounting decision-making, advanced corporate finance, financial statements analysis, and taxation in the graduate programs.

Elayan is a member of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association, the Decision Sciences Institute, and the American Allied Social Science Association.

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John is a tax professional and digital innovator with 26 years of experience with PwC Canada. He provides Canadian corporate tax services to Canadian public and multinational corporations across a range of industries.

John has extensive experience working with clients to transform their tax departments to unleash their full value. He has helped many clients transform by focusing on their people, processes, technology and data. John also led a diverse team of experts to deliver solutions to digitize and transform how PwC Canada’s tax teams deliver services to clients.

Jacqui Mulligan is the Vice President of Education for CPA Ontario, a professional association with more than 90,000 members and 21,000 students. CPA Ontario serves to protect the public interest, advance the accounting profession, and guide a new generation of Chartered Professional Accountants as they develop into responsible and confident business leaders.

Jacqui has been involved in shaping the profession’s accounting education for more than 15 years and continues to be a leader in pre-certification education at CPA Ontario. Prior to joining CPA Ontario, Jacqui worked at Sun Life Financial Inc. on their Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) team and at PricewaterhouseCoopers in external audit.

Jacqui is a Chartered Professional Accountant and earned a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto.

Alyssa joined DiPaola DiPietro & Little Professional Corporation in September 2013. Alyssa was born and raised in St. Catharines. She graduated from Brock University with First Class Standing in 2012 with an Honours Bachelor of Accounting – Co-op degree. In 2013, she earned her Chartered Professional Accountant and Chartered Accountant designations from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Alyssa has several years of accounting, tax, and audit and assurance experience in other Niagara region-based firms. She has experience servicing clients across a wide spectrum of industries including retail, not-for-profit organizations, investment, farms, and various other owner-managed private corporations. Alyssa resides in St. Catharines. She is a pet lover and enjoys traveling. Her furthest trip has taken her to Kenya, Africa with Me to We.

Usman Raja began teaching at Goodman School of Business in 2009. He holds a PhD in Management from John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, a MBA from International Islamic University, and a BSc Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan. He teaches courses in organizational behaviour and human resource management.

He has published in several top journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics. He also regularly reviews for many top journals.

Raja received Goodman’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 2018 and was also appointed Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Programs at the School in 2024.

More information can be found at https://brocku.ca/goodman/faculty-research/faculty-directory/usman-raja/