Mubeen Patel is the founder of North Accent, a watch company distinguished by their Arabic-Indic numeral dial. He was born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario, where his family immigrated to from India in the early ’80s.

He only moved out of Oshawa about 2 years ago. He has a Bachelors of Commerce degree and currently works full-time at a 9-5 job until North Accent takes off inshaAllah (God willing). At the moment, he spends a good portion of his evenings and weekends running all of the operations and functions for North Accent with help from his wife for conventions and trade shows.

Somali Ethiopian Canadian fashion designer Eman Idil Bare is headed to New York Fashion Week (NYFW).