PricewaterhouseCoopers
Leadership History
3 leaders · 2002 to present
Mohamed Kande is the CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, in the role since 2024. The first chief executive was Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr., from 2002.
| Name | Role | From | To | Years in role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Kande | Global Chairman | 2024 | Present | 2 |
| Bob Moritz | Global Chairman | 2016 | 2024 | 8 |
| Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr. | Global Chief Executive Officer | 2002 | 2009 | 7 |
PwC is one of the Big Four professional services networks, alongside Deloitte, EY and KPMG. Its member firms audit a large share of the world's biggest listed companies and sell tax, legal, deals, consulting and technology services. The modern network dates from the 1998 merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand and adopted the short brand name PwC in 2010. In FY2025 it employed about 364,000 people in 136 countries. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
PwC is not one company. Each national firm, such as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in the US or the UK firm, is a separate legal entity owned by its partners and licensed to use the PwC name, methodologies and technology by PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL), a UK company limited by guarantee that does not serve clients itself. Member firms bill clients through three lines of service. Assurance (about US$19.8 billion in FY2025) covers statutory audits and other attestation work that listed and regulated companies must buy every year. Tax and Legal Services (about US$12.7 billion) covers compliance, transfer pricing, cross-border structuring and legal advice. Advisory (about US$24.4 billion) covers consulting, deals, risk, cyber and technology implementation, including the Strategy& unit built from Booz & Company. Fees come from hourly rates, fixed fees and multi-year audit engagements, and profits after costs are shared among each firm's partners.
Global Chairman
2024 – Present
2 years (current)
Leads the PwC global network through AI investment, audit-quality focus, client reinvention, and professional-services market change. He began his four-year term as Global Chair on 1 July 2024, after serving as PwC's Global Advisory Leader since 2019.
Global Chairman
2016 – 2024
8 years
Moritz implemented the massive 'New Equation' strategy, committing $12 billion to aggressively expand PwC's consulting capabilities in ESG and generative AI.
As Global Chairman, he successfully navigated the firm through the severe reputational fallout of the Australian tax leak scandal, forcing a complete restructure of the local partnership.
Global Chief Executive Officer
2002 – 2009
7 years
DiPiazza became global chief executive of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2002, the year the firm sold its consulting arm to IBM.
He led the network through the reforms that followed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Dennis Nally succeeded him in 2009.
PwC faces slower growth (2.7% in FY2025), regulatory penalties tied to audit quality, independence rules that limit cross-selling, softer consulting demand and the need to retrain a workforce as AI automates routine audit and tax tasks.
Key global leaders of PwC include Mohamed Kande (2024, present), Bob Moritz (2016 to 2024), Dennis Nally (2009 to 2016), and Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr. (2002 to 2009), each steering the network through major regulatory, economic, and technological milestones.
Serving as Global Chair from 2016 to 2024, Bob Moritz oversaw substantial revenue expansion from $35 billion to over $55 billion, launched 'The New Equation' strategy, navigated the COVID-19 remote-work transition, championed diversity and ESG initiatives, and orchestrated the multi-billion-dollar enterprise AI investment roadmap.
Mohamed Kande, who became Global Chair in July 2024, holds an engineering background and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He previously led PwC's US and Global Advisory practices, marking the first time a consulting and advisory leader was selected to lead the global network.
Leading PwC from 2002 to 2009, Samuel DiPiazza steered the firm through the fallout of the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals, implemented Sarbanes-Oxley compliance standards, oversaw the strategic sale of PwC Consulting to IBM for $3.5 billion in 2002, and rebuilt PwC's internal advisory capabilities.
The PwC Global Chair is elected through a comprehensive governance process by the PwC Global Board, which comprises senior partner representatives elected from member firms worldwide, serving a fixed four-year term with eligibility for a single re-election.
Dennis Nally served as Global Chairman from 2009 to 2016 following his leadership of PwC US. He guided the network through post-financial crisis regulatory overhauls, accelerated expansion in emerging Asian and Middle Eastern markets, and championed significant acquisitions including Booz & Company (Strategy&).
Kande assumed leadership amidst macroeconomic cooling in consulting spending, heightened regulatory oversight in China and Australia, and the imperative to rapidly integrate enterprise generative AI across audit and advisory practices without compromising professional standards.
Senior leaders of major member firms (such as the Senior Partner of PwC US and Senior Partner of PwC UK) sit on the Global Leadership Team and Global Board, collaborating with the Global Chair to align network policies, brand standards, technology investments, and risk management protocols.
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