Ravinder S. Juneja, known as Ravi, of Toronto, Canada and Phoenix, Arizona passed away on June 1, 2025 in Toronto at age 79.
Mr. Juneja was born in Peshawar, India on November 28, 1945. The eldest and only son (and only child at the time), Mr. Juneja and his family left Peshawar before partition and lived in Bombay, Faridkot, Agra, and Nagpur. Mr. Juneja showed his intellectual acumen at a young age, placing 2nd in a statewide academic competition, despite just having moved schools.
When he was 15, Mr. Juneja left for Chandigarh to study engineering, and eventually decided to take a leap and travel abroad to York, England to study accountancy. There he apprenticed for an accounting firm and learned the trade, before joining his father, mother, and younger sister in Canada in 1966. Given the new country context, Mr. Juneja once again apprenticed and retook the accountancy exams, earning his Chartered Accountant, Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner credentials from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
Mr. Juneja’s career in accounting and auditing took him across many firms, including Ernst & Ernst (now EY), Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte), Chemical Bank (now Chase), a Japanese bank, and William M. Mercer. He traveled across the country and around the world, from Japan to the Philippines to all over Europe, ferreting out fraud and abuse wherever he could find it. Mr. Juneja lived in Melbourne, Australia, Stamford, Connecticut, and Hartsdale, New York, before deciding to finally return to his favorite city, Toronto, to start his own practice.
Back in Canada, Mr. Juneja offered his accounting and CFO services to small businesses in the local community he loved. He quickly got involved in charitable work and became the youngest founding member of the East Indian Professional Residents of Canada (EIPROC), and served as its president for a year. He served as the Chair of the Jewel Heart Ball for the South Asian Community Council of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, and was unanimously elected its president in 2004. He left that position to found the Ripple Effect Wellness Organization in 2006, whose important educational and community health work continues to this day. Mr. Juneja was also particularly proud to be an avid and involved sponsor in his local AA chapter.
Mr. Juneja was a voracious reader and lover of spy novels, action thrillers, British comedies, literary fiction, and MAD magazine, of which he collected every published issue for many years. He was deeply concerned with and involved in local, national, and international politics. He was adventurous and always willing to try anything once, especially in his youth. His keen wit and sense of humor were bested only by his kindness.
Mr. Juneja is predeceased by his parents Diljit Juneja and Gulshan Juneja. He will live on in the memories of his wife of 50 years, Aneeta, to whom he was deeply devoted, as well as his beloved son Raoul, his cherished younger sister Nita and her husband Charles, his niece and nephews, his extended family, and his granddog Grogu.
Contributions may be made in Ravi’s name to: Ripple Effect Wellness Organization (www.trewo.org), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (Toronto, Ontario, https://thepmcf.ca/ways-to-give/memory/), or Banner Cancer Center (Phoenix, Arizona, https://secure.bannerhealth.com/site/Donation2?df_id=4420).
