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Promotion Watch ’21: Deloitte Canada Adds 29 New Partners

Posted on by Jason Bramwell

While these 29 individuals at Deloitte Canada were promoted to partner at the beginning of the year, it’s not too late to recognize this class of 16 men and 13 women for their unyielding love of all things D-town.

Among service lines, consulting leads the way with 15 new partners, followed by tax and legal with five, risk advisory with four, and financial advisory and audit and assurance with two each. The chief legal officer for Deloitte Canada was also given keys to the partnership.

Here are the names of the newest partners at Deloitte Canada. You can see their smiling faces here:

  • Paul Bien, Consulting, Toronto
  • David De Grandpre, Consulting, Montreal
  • Bruce Derraugh, Consulting, Toronto
  • Esther Dryburgh, Risk Advisory, Toronto
  • Kulvinder Grewal, Consulting, Calgary
  • Rene Heroux, Consulting, Kitchener
  • Amanda Holden, Risk Advisory, Toronto
  • Jonathan Hupka, Audit & Assurance, Toronto
  • Mohammad Sajjad Huq, Consulting, Toronto
  • Samantha Iorio, Tax & Legal, Toronto
  • Lauren Jackson, Consulting, Toronto
  • Robert Jeffery, Tax & Legal, Halifax
  • Sarah Keels, Tax & Legal, Kitchener
  • Jean Alain Lising, Risk Advisory, Toronto
  • Hilary McVey, Consulting, Ottawa
  • Susan Moore, Tax & Legal, Ottawa
  • Katie Moriarty, Audit & Assurance, Toronto
  • Leonardo Morini-Bianzino, Risk Advisory, Toronto
  • Julie Mortreux, Financial Advisory, Montreal
  • Daipayan Mukherjee, Consulting, Toronto
  • Laura Nesbitt, Consulting, Toronto
  • Sarah Qadeer, National, Chief Legal Officer, Toronto
  • Jason Rasevych, Financial Advisory, Vancouver
  • Katrina Robson, Tax & Legal, Toronto
  • John Sanderson, Consulting, Montreal
  • Lachlan Saunders, Consulting, Toronto
  • Rakesh Shetty, Consulting, Toronto
  • Brandon Touchie, Consulting, Toronto
  • Tara Van Zuiden, Consulting, Vancouver

Congrats to all!

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Deloitte Associate Who Supports Occupy Wall Street Admits That His Idea of Camping is the W Hotel

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As you know, a number of people in Lower Manhattan have spent the last two months Occupying Wall Street by way of camping out in Zuccotti Park. While September and October proved to be unseasonably warm, thus allowing Occupiers to exercise their 1st Amendment rights in relative comfort, November has brought cooler temps which has caused some relative discomfort among the campers. Oh, and Mayor Bloomberg was sorta sick of the mess and had everyone’s tents forcibly removed.

While many protesters have had to seek less squalid accommodations, other supporters of the movement have been able to find quarters that are more suitable for their tastes. This includes Deloitte associate Brad Spitzer who has been traveling to New York from California for work and has taken the opportunity to get his occupy on. And while he’s enthusiastic about the cause, Spitzer isn’t exactly down for park living:

“Tents are not for me,” he confessed, when confronted in the sleek black lobby of the Washington Street hotel where sources described him as a “repeat” guest.

Spitzer, 24, an associate at financial-services giant Deloitte, which netted $29 billion in revenue last year, admitted he joined the protest at Zuccotti Park several times.

“I’m staying here for work,” said Spitzer, dressed down in a company T-shirt and holding a backpack and his suitcase. “I do finance, but I support it still.”

You guys understand. There are just certain comforts that a Green Dot employee gets accustomed to – a soft mattress, a hot shower, room service – no matter how good of a drum circle you find.

Occupy Wall Street protesters stay at $700-a-night hotel [NYP]

Deloitte Taking Precautions for Possible Unwelcome Guests

This just in:

WFC Update
Zuccotti Park Evacuation

As a result of the evacuation of protestors in Zuccotti Park early this morning, there will be limited access into 1 and 2 WFC until further notice.

Currently, the walkway bridge that connects 1 and 2 WFC will be closed. All building tenants must present identification to gain access. For visitors, the name of the tenant and person visiting will need to be provided to building security.

Access restrictions are subject to change, as information and updates from building management are changing rapidly.

We appreciate your cooperation and will continue to keep you informed through this mailbox. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to reach out to myself [redacted email] or [redacted].

[Guy who gets to deal with these sorts of things]

Area Operations Manager

Deloitte Services LP

We Read This Awful Interview with Deloitte’s Joe Echevarria So You Don’t Have To

You don’t have to be Bob Woodward to recognize the formulaic nature of the CEO interview. Reporter goes to CEO’s office, asks loaded questions about the issues of the day, describes the view from the office, elaborates on the person’s exercise regimen, humble (or not so humble) beginnings, people they admire, yada yada yada. Cripes, reading these things makes you want to shave with broken glass but hey! editors get in ruts just liwe’re stuck with the puff. By extension, interviews with Big 4 CEOs are worse because they typically occur with General Counsel sitting in the next room zapping their genitals every time a question is asked that necessitates “I can’t comment on that.”

Today’s example comes courtesy of Reuters who interviewed Deloitte’s Joe Echevarria. What prompted this little chat was the PCAOB’s release of Part II of the firm’s 2008 inspection report. It wasn’t exactly a flattering portrayal of a firm who, when asked to brush up on their audit skills, basically told the PCAOB to drop dead.

Accordingly, the firm is running damage control and that involves getting Joe E. in front of some friendly reporters (read: not Jon Weil or Francine McKenna).

Recently faulted by the main U.S. auditor watchdog, Deloitte has told its professionals that skepticism should be the No. 1 focus during the upcoming auditing season for annual financial reports, CEO Joe Echevarria said.

“I know there’s a heightened awareness about professional skepticism in the firm,” he said. “It’s going to take a while for heightened awareness to manifest itself in actions and documentation because humans are involved here.”

The natural follow-up question here would be, “But Mr. Echevarria, the PCAOB asked you to fix things in 2008-2009, are you saying that you’re now just ‘manifesting itself in actions’?” but that brings out the zapper. That’s okay, we’re all used to it. You know what else we’re used to? Talking about the “expectations gap”:

There is an “expectations gap” between what auditors do and what the public expects, but auditors do have an obligation to detect and report material fraud, Echevarria said.

Echevarria is also asked about auditor rotation, IFRS and (for some odd reason) its settlement over the Adelphia fraud in 2005. Why not ask about the swinging insider trading scandal? What about Taylor, Bean & Whitaker? What about associates sneaking bloggers into the downtown W? WHAT ABOUT THIS FAUX TARA REID MARRIAGE? People want these all-important questions on the record and yet it never happens. Sigh.

By the way since it’s obvious that some of you care about these details, Joe is from the Bronx and his office is in Midtown.

Deloitte pressing for more skeptical audits (God, the headline is even awful) [Reuters]