Let’s Speculate About Who Will Be the Next CEO of Deloitte
With Joe U. going global, there will soon be a vacancy in the office of the CEO at Deloitte. Fortunately for the Green Dot, it has enough people waiting in the wings who have the bona fides to fill that seat. Let’s take a look at a few of the top contenders who could be […]
Grant Thornton and BKD Have Better CEOs Than the Ones At Big 4 Firms, According to Glassdoor
Here’s a quick recap of where public accounting firm CEOs were ranked in Glassdoor’s 100 top CEOs in 2021, based on anonymous employee reviews and feedback: 47. Brad Preber, Grant Thornton, 94% approval rating 61. Ted Dickman, BKD, 93% approval rating 67. Tim Ryan, PwC, 93% approval rating 99. Paul Knopp, KPMG, 90% approval rating […]
Qualified Woman Obviously Pissed She Was Passed Over for KPMG U.K. CEO Job Eventually Given to Guy (UPDATE)
UPDATE: Mary O’Connor quit. According to the Financial Times, she said: “I am privileged to have been able to make a significant contribution to rebuilding the trust in our business and to help set it on the path to even greater future growth. However, I have decided that my corporate experience and approach are now […]
KPMG U.K. Partners Seem to Like This Jon Holt Guy
KPMG in the U.K. made it official this morning that head of audit Jon Holt will replace Bill Michael as the firm’s new CEO. The U.K. House of Klynveld said: KPMG in the UK has confirmed that following a partnership vote, Jon Holt has been elected with overwhelming support as the firm’s Chief Executive. He […]
Another Big 4 Firm Sticks It to Women
[Updated on March 25 with information on the leading CEO candidate at Deloitte Australia.] You can cross EY Oceania off the list of potential landing spots for a woman CEO of a Big 4 firm, as David Larocca, currently the managing partner of EY Oceania’s Strategy and Transactions business, will take the reins from CEO […]
Deloitte Australia CEO Resigns, Says Leading Firm Through Pandemic ‘Has Come At Some Personal Cost’
In an announcement that reportedly stunned Deloitte Australia partners and staff, CEO Richard Deutsch resigned today after spending two and a half years on the job, the Australian Financial Review reported. “After a difficult and unprecedented year and following much personal reflection, today I announced my resignation as CEO,” Mr Deutsch told partners and staff […]
KPMG Must Really Like This Bill Thomas Fellow
Is Bill Thomas the most under-the-radar Big 4 global CEO right now? Everyone knows Bob Moritz, Punit Renjen, and Carmine Di Sibio. But if you don’t work at KPMG, or even if you do, did you even know Bill Thomas is the firm’s head chairman? I just now had to create a Bill Thomas tag for […]
The Rona Postpones Big 4 CEOs’ Swiss Alps Vacation In 2021
Aw, no trip to Davos for BoMo, T-Ry, Carmen, Kelly, Punit, Joe U., and Paulie this January. Here are the first three graphs of the media release we received this morning from Adrian Monck, managing director of public engagement for the World Economic Forum: I would like to share with you the news that the […]
TIL: Bob Moritz Was Reappointed PwC Global Chairman … In February
Seriously, I had no idea until tonight when I saw the news release, dated Feb. 24, 2020, posted on PwC’s global website. This never hit our inbox and I can’t find anything else written about this online. Nothing. Poor Bob. They couldn’t even squeeze out a brief mention on PwC US’s website? You know, the […]
EY U.K. Has a ‘Waffles or Pancakes’ Decision to Make Soon
Unlike their American counterparts, none of the Queen’s Big 4 firms have ever had a woman in charge. It’s not going to happen anytime soon at PwC, as partners just re-elected Kevin Ellis for a second four-year term as chairman and senior partner. Richard Houston took over as Deloitte North West Europe and U.K. senior partner […]
Big 4 CEOs Crash Davos’ Economic Party
The 2020 World Economic Forum annual meeting kicked off today in Davos, Switzerland, and all of our favorite Big 4 ringleaders from PwC, Deloitte, EY, and KPMG are there and accounted for: BoMo, T-Ry, Punit, Carmine, Kelly, and Lynne. We got the obligatory scenic Swiss Alps shots: Excited to be at #WEF20 again and already […]
Let’s Speculate About Why Lynne Doughtie Is Leaving KPMG
When we got a tip Friday mid-morning that Lynne Doughtie had told KPMG U.S. staff in a video message that she wouldn’t seek another term as chairman and CEO, I wasn’t all that surprised. I figured she’d be one and done. Doughtie seems like a nice, hardworking, intelligent woman. I don’t think KPMG would have […]
Exclusive: Lynne Doughtie Is Not Seeking a Second Term as KPMG Chairman and CEO
Another Big 4 firm will soon have a new person residing in the corner office. First, Cathy Engelbert was not renominated late last year for a second four-year term as Deloitte CEO. She was succeeded by Joe Ucuzoglu and took over as the new commish of the WNBA. Then Mark Weinberger announced last December that […]
The Lovefest For Ex-Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert Continues
Former Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert has been getting a lot of love lately. Last week, Glassdoor released its 2019 ranking of the top 100 CEOs in the U.S. based on anonymous employee reviews, and Engelbert was ranked 15th—the highest among the Big 4 CEOs and the second highest among women chief executives. This week, career […]
Top Big 4 CEO In Glassdoor’s CEO Rankings Is No Longer a Big 4 CEO
Glassdoor came out yesterday with its 2019 ranking of the top 100 CEOs in the U.S. based on anonymous employee reviews and feedback, and the results indicate that Cathy Engelbert must have been beloved by legions of Green Dotters across the nation. Engelbert, the first woman CEO of a Big 4 firm in the U.S. […]
Punit Renjen Gets Another Four Years as Deloitte Global CEO
Because June 1 is always New Year’s Day in the Deloitte universe, I woke up this morning to a shit-ton of Deloitte personnel news, so let’s get right to it. First, Deloitte Global CEO Punit Renjen was elected to sit in the big chair for four more years. His second term began today. It has […]
Let’s Try to Come Up with a Hockey Nickname for Each Big 4 CEO
Anyone who is a fan of the NHL knows that hockey players rarely call each other by their first or last names. They call each other by their hockey nicknames. There’s really no rhyme or reason for how hockey players get their nicknames. But usually, you get your hockey nickname by either adding “-er,” “-y,” […]
Marcel Stalder Is Out as CEO of EY Switzerland
A couple weeks ago, we got an email from a tipster who told us that EY Switzerland CEO Marcel Stalder was “dead meat” due to the firm’s handling of sexual harassment allegations made against a male managing partner by a former female associate. Well, turns out this person was right; Stalder has stepped down as […]
According to Some List, Big 4 CEOs Are Among the Best ‘Brand Guardians’ in the World
It’s listicle time, you guys. This one comes from an outfit called Brand Finance, which calls itself “the world’s leading independent branded business valuation and strategy consultancy.” At today’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Brand Finance released its Global 500 report, which ranked the world’s 500 most valuable brands. The report also ranked the […]
Let’s See Where Your Favorite Big 4 CEO Landed on Glassdoor’s 2018 Top 100 List
Each year, Glassdoor puts out a list of the highest-rated CEOs in the U.S., based on anonymous employee reviews and feedback. Up until last year, the annual ranking was limited to 50 CEOs, but in 2017, Glassdoor extended the list to the top 100. Good thing, because while three Big 4 CEOs made Glassdoor’s 2018 […]
#TBT: We Dug Up One Big 4 CEO’s Graduation Photo
Let's see which Big 4 CEO we have here… Clearly we are referring to the man on the right and not the woman on the left because LOL a woman CEO of a Big 4 accounting firm yeah right! So, who could this be? Click on over to page 2 to find out.The strapping young […]
KPMG CEO Will Take Some of Penn State’s Questions
KPMG CEO John Veihmeyer — Notre Dame alum, dedicated steward of an employer of choice — is on the guest list at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. We don't have his itinerary in hand but it stands to reason that he'll have a hectic schedule of interviews, networking, and general CEO-y stuff on […]
Let’s All Give Jim Quigley a Warm Welcome to Twitter
We knew it was only a matter of time before Jim Quigley rounded up enough interns to run his Twitter account for him and it seems that day has finally come. While we won’t openly admit to hoping he immediately engaged in common Twitter faux pi like tweeting in all caps or speaking to others as if they could hear him without using the all important @, we’ve thoroughly scanned his account and can barely find anything to bag on.
It seems, however, that he’s merely pimping out the World Economic Forum and is really, really excited about it. So excited, in fact, that it’s been all he’s tweeted about in the less than two weeks he’s been sharing with us in 140 characters or less.
What he isn’t tweeting is how much his trip to Davos to hob-nob with the global elite might cost him. We of the working class, ticking and tying set might feel he could just as easily put his finger on the pulse of the economy by sitting down with any number of Deloitte’s 170,000 employees since, last we checked, the economy was people, not rich guys (and gals, it’s the 21st Century) hanging out in Switzerland.
We won’t say we’re disappointed because our standards are really low to begin with but he could have, you know, toned it down a notch.
Just how much does a trip to Davos cost a snazzy Big 4 CEO? Ask Andrew Ross Sorkin: A basic level Davos excursion will run you $71,000 for membership to the organization and ticket alone (that doesn’t include hotels, helicopters or red carpets strewn ahead of you). The “Industry Associate” level, which would get JQ behind the velvet rope to hang with other hot accounting and finance rockstars, runs $156,000. And if, say, Quigs wants to bring a buddy the “Industry Partner” level could run him around $301,000.
Well wait, it’s not fair to say he’s only tweeting about WEF, he did also throw some tweets about chicks in there. You know, for diversity’s sake.
Hey, it beats over-hashtagging I guess.
(UPDATE) Jim Turley Breaks Out the Fancy Footwear for His Interview on Bloomberg
~ Update includes quote from Britt Aboutaleb of Fashionista
We meant to get to this on Friday but there was a social engagement occurring that couldn’t be avoided; you know how it is. Anyhoo, the Ernst & Young CEO sat down with Bloomberg last Friday to talk tax policy and we found a few things rather interesting. Watch and we’ll chat about some things after the jump:
First things first: How about the two hotties that Bloomberg threw at JT?
Second: why does the MSM always refer to the “Big 4” as the “so-called Big 4”? Does Big 4 carry some negative connotation in some corners of society or is it meant to be a not-so-subtle dig, like when you call the token short guy on your team “big guy”?
Third and of utmost importance: what’s with JT’s footwear? Are those Timberlands? Does he just put on whatever the wife lays out for him or did she happen to take all of his wingtips to the cobbler this week? OR did he just get back from hiking the Appalachian Trail à la Mark Sanford?
Whatever the situation is, they look like they’ve gotten some good use. We’re not sure what Jimbo likes to do for recreation but it must involve some rugged backdrops that may involve him wearing a flannel shirt and chopping wood.
Britt Aboutaleb, one of the editors of our sister site, Fashionsita, had these thoughts, “I can’t even see the shoes — they look like they’ve emerged from a swamp! Maybe he forgot the shoes he was supposed to change into after trekking through the snow? Or maybe he didn’t realize his feet would be caught on camera…”
God, we hope JT could have arranged for some car service rather than schlepping through the snow. On the other hand, maybe walking to interviews is part of a green initiative? Either way, he could have brought the shoes along and changed into them. Just a thought.
On the other, to say that this is a fashion faux-pas would be an understatement akin to saying “E&Y had a few layoffs last year.”