UK Tax Partners dominate PwC Global Leadership team: Collier-Keywood is promoted to PwC Global Tax Leader, Moira Elms to lead People & Culture and Peter Wyman to lead Public Policy & Regulatory Matters

Following the ratification of its new network structure PricewaterhouseCoopers today announced the following appointments to its Network Executive Team (NET). The NET, which reports to PwC’s Network Leadership Team will be responsible for key service line and functional areas across the PwC network. The appointments were announced by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global CEO Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.

“Since its formation ten years ago, PricewaterhouseCoopers has experienced strong, sustained global growth. We are very fortunate to have intelligent, strong leaders who will assume the critical responsibilities of guiding our global network through the next phase of our development and help us to build on our growth over the last ten years,” Mr. DiPiazza said.

Donald A. McGovern Jr. of the U.S. has been appointed Global Leader for Assurance. Mr. McGovern succeeds Rob Ward of Australia who had served in the post since 2005 and has returned to PwC Australia. Mr. McGovern has served as Global Engagement Partner for such significant PwC clients as Cisco Systems Inc and Schlumberger Ltd. He led the PwC office in San Jose California and was prior to his new role Vice-Chair Markets, for the New York Metro region of PwC U.S.

Richard Collier-Keywood of the U.K. has been appointed Global Leader for Tax. Mr. Collier-Keywood has led the UK tax practice for the past five years. and succeeds Gene Donnelly, who had been Leader of both the Global Tax and Advisory practices and has returned to PwC U.S. Mr. Collier-Keywood will also serve as Managing Partner of PwC U.K.

Juan Pujadas of the U.S. has been appointed Leader of Global Advisory and also will continue in his role as Leader of Advisory for PwC U.S. Mr. Pujadas has spent much of his career in the financial services industry and is experienced in many markets around the world.

Moira Elms of the U.K. has been appointed Global Leader of People & Culture, Brand & Communications. Prior to this appointment Ms. Elms was the leader of Marketing and Business Development and Knowledge as well as Brand and Communications for PwC U.K. She previously was the Human Capital Leader for the U.K. firm and has served as Chairwoman of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Gender Advisory Council for the last two years. Ms. Elms, a tax partner, succeeds Richard Baird of the U.S., who was Leader of Global Human Capital and has returned to PwC U.S.

Edgardo Pappacena of the U.S. has assumed the newly-created role of Leader of Global Strategic Sourcing. Mr. Pappacena has been Global Leader of Strategy as well as Brand and Communications. In his new role, he will focus on the development of new business and delivery models.

Peter Wyman of the U.K. has been appointed Global Leader of Public Policy & Regulatory Matters. He succeeds Richard Kilgust, who has retired from PwC after 36 years of service. Mr. Wyman, a tax partner, has been leader of the Public Policy and Regulatory Matters for PwC U.K. and serves on the profession’s Global Public Policy Committee.

Donald Almeida of the U.S has been appointed Leader of Global Clients and Markets He succeeds Alec Jones who has returned to PwC U.K. Mr. Almeida currently serves as PwC’s Global relationship Partner for IBM. He has served as U.S leader of the Technology, InfoComm and Entertainment practice, combining industry management skills with large account-management experience.

Pierre Coll of France has been appointed Global Leader of Risk & Quality: He succeeds Michael Gagnon of the U.S. who has retired after 35 years with PwC. Mr. Coll was previously our Leader of Assurance for PwC’s continental European firms. He has worked in the US and Germany, and has served large multinational clients throughout his career.

Tony Harrington of Australia has been appointed Global Leader of Global Strategy and Network Transformation. Mr. Harrington has served for the last eight years as the Territory Senior Partner for PwC of Australia. He has been a member of the Global Extended Leadership and served on a number of high level global PwC programmes.

In addition to the new appointments, Javier Rubinstein of the U.S. will remain in his role as PwC’s Global General Counsel, and Paul Boorman of the U.K. will remain in his role as our Global Leader of Operations.