Our Team

Darren Isaacs

CEO

Darren is on a mission with his team at Makosi to change the way public accounting firms deliver work. This requires our clients to go global and on-demand with resourcing strategies, operate virtually as well as forge automation and data analytics strategies. His mantra is "get your hands dirty, figure things out, keep it simple and never give up."

Paul Emery

CXO

At the age of 28, Paul rode a motorcycle around the world. While he was riding, he thought about quitting almost every day. But despite the bad weather, brushes with the law, mental and physical fatigue, he kept going. Today, Paul puts that perseverance to work as a member of the Makosi leadership team by delivering exceptional service and experiences to our clients.

Kevin Kletz

COO

Kevin is an experienced finance and operations executive with a varied industry background including real estate, sports & entertainment and financial services. He ensures that our teams are able to consistently deliver to our clients in a compliant and effective manner.

James Fraser

Community Journey Lead

James is a talent acquisition specialist with global analyst and project management experience at the likes of Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and American Express. With more than 10 years’ specialised human capital experience combined with his multinational corporate experience, he’s able to provide our clients with the best-fit audit teams.

David Young

Technology & Data Architect

David’s extensive technical training and experience in leading technologies, combined with his marketing and MBA background, enables him to dig deeper into the data to uncover important insights that change the way we recruit and deliver the best audit teams to our clients.

Pieter Strydom

Product Specialist

As a technology entrepreneur and former external auditor at Ernst & Young, Pieter uses his knowledge and experience to provide clients with technology they want. By leveraging industry leading product development practices, UX/UI design thinking, robotic process automation and AI, we’re building product to accelerate innovation in the audit industry.

Cristina Dela Tonga

Community Associate

With her management consulting background, and a proven track-record of delivering as a business development specialist, Christina helps find and recruit the best talent from important global talent clusters ensuring that our clients are always able to access the best talent, no matter where they are.

Kathryn Olsen

Office Manager

With a strong support and administrative background, Kathryn allows the team to move quicker, which in turn allows the team to move quicker for our clients.

Richard Fisher

Retired CHRO, EisnerAmper

David Madden

Intelligent Automation

Wayne Kaplan

Retired Managing Partner, Grant Thornton