Omar Roubi
Principal, Education & Content, LumiQ
Omar Roubi, CPA is currently the Principal, Education & Content at LumiQ. Prior to joining LumiQ, Omar was a full-time accounting faculty member at University of Colorado Denver and Brock University. During his academic career, Omar taught a wide range of accounting courses including financial and managerial accounting at the introductory level, intermediate financial reporting, intermediate and advanced cost accounting, both US and Canadian taxation, as well as accounting theory. In addition to his full-time duties, Omar was also a sessional instructor at McMaster University, York University, and Ryerson University, wrote a managerial accounting textbook entitled “Managerial Accounting: Enhancing Decision Making” and was named the Goodman School of Business at Brock University Undergraduate Professor of the Year.
Before his academic career, Omar graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor’s of Science in accounting and Master’s of Science in US Taxation. He worked for the tax group at Grant Thornton, LLP’s Dallas office before moving to the corporate tax compliance group at Rent-A-Center’s headquarters in Plano, TX. He obtained his US CPA designation in 2011.