Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

#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 mustacheless man in the cap and gown is none other than Deloitte Global CEO Barry Salzberg at his 1974 graduation from Brooklyn College.

Oddly, the LinkedIn post from which it comes — entitled How I Learned to Dream Big. And Why We Must Help Young People Do the Same — has been deleted. Perhaps the Deloitte legal team realized after it was posted that encouraging people to dream big might open them up to too many liability lawsuits, who knows. You can find the cache here (thank you, Internet!).

Investigative journalists that we are, we dug up a photo of young Dr Phil to compare. Take a look:

It is clear these two gentleman looked nothing alike in their younger days, leading us to suspect the transition to twinsies happened some time around 1984.

Latest Accounting Jobs--Apply Now:

Have something to add to this story? Give us a shout by email, Twitter, or text/call the tipline at 202-505-8885. As always, all tips are anonymous.

Related articles

downtown LA skyline

EY’s Landlord Didn’t Pay the Mortgage on the Downtown LA Office Building

Before we get into the situation, please note the issue discussed here is not EY’s fault. Rather, the office tower bearing the firm’s name at 725 South Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles has entered receivership after asset management company Brookfield stopped making payments on its debt in April. Commercial real estate firm Colliers has […]

sketch of a robot among business people to signify AI replacing workers

PwC Chief Products & Technology Officer Says Not to Worry, They Don’t Want to Replace You With AI

A couple days ago, NYT published a piece asking an important question: Who will protect the workers losing their jobs to AI? The article references a May 16 senate subcommittee hearing chaired by Senator Richard Blumenthal at which OpenAI’s Sam Altman is told Mr. Blumenthal’s greatest nightmare is AI causing massive job loss. “There will […]