- Samuel DiPiazza
firm.
He received dual degrees in accounting and
economics from theUniversity of Alabama where he was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity. He then went on to get hisMaster of Accountancy from theUniversity of Houston .He started work with the firm
Coopers & Lybrand , one of the two firms along with Price Waterhouse, that merged in 1998 to form PricewaterhouseCoopers. DiPiazza joined C&L in 1973 and was named partner six years later in 1979. Later in his career he was chosen to head first theBirmingham, Alabama , and then the Chicago offices. In 1992 he was appointed managing partner of the Midwest region. In 1994 he moved to a position in the New York office, similar to his previous one, and added client service vice president to his resume. Finally, in 2000 he was elected chairman and senior partner of the United States firm, a role he filled until 2002 when he took over the role of chairman and managing partner for the firm as a whole.Outside of PricewaterhouseCoopers, DiPiazza is serving a three year term as a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of Junior Achievement, the Executive Council of the Inner City Scholarship Fund and is President of Big Brothers Big Sisters New York City. He serves on the Executive Committee of the National Corporate Theater Fund and as a board member with the
New York City Ballet . He is also on the board of theWorld Trade Center Memorial Foundation .Recently, Mr. DiPiazza has been a member of the
Committee on Capital Markets Regulation which has been mandated to assess the impact of the current U.S. regulatory environment on the competitiveness of the U.S. in the global capital marketplace.On
October 12 2005 , Mr. DiPiazza was appointed to a second four year term as chairman of the PricewaterhouseCoopers global, beginning onJanuary 1 2006 .External links
* [http://www.pwc.com/extweb/aboutus.nsf/docid/D160FADBD066CB6C85256E590003044C Official PwC bio]
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