Arthur Andersen LLP was an American holding company based in Chicago. Formerly one of the "Big Five" accounting firms, the company had provided auditing, tax and consulting services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational businesses.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. PwC ranks as the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG.
Richard Marco Kovacevich is an American business executive and the former CEO of Wells Fargo & Company.
Peter Oppenheimer is the former senior vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Apple Inc and has been a member of the board of directors of Goldman Sachs since 2014.
Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr. was CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2002 until 2009. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the PwC U.S firm.
Charles H. Noski has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Wells Fargo since March 2020. He has previously held a variety of positions, including the position of CFO at Northrop Grumman, AT&T, and Bank of America, as well as the positions of director and chairman of the audit committee of Microsoft.
Karl von der Heyden is a German-American businessman best known for his former roles as the Co-Chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco, and CFO of PepsiCo.
John Gerard Stumpf is a former American business executive and retail banker. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Wells Fargo, one of the Big Four banks of the United States. He was named CEO in June 2007, elected to the board of directors in June 2006, and named president in August 2005. He became chairman in January 2010. Stumpf left the positions of chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo on October 12, 2016, following a scandal involving customer accounts and subsequent pressure from the public and lawmakers. He was succeeded by Timothy J. Sloan.
CHI-California Healthcare Institute is a private, non-profit public policy research and advocacy organization, representing more than 250 universities, academic research centers, biotechnology, and medical device companies. Founded in 1993, and based in La Jolla, California, CHI has offices in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, California. CHI publishes an annual California Biomedical Industry report, providing data on the scope and scale of academic and commercial life sciences research and development within the state. In 2008, the industry employed more than 270,000 Californians and produced revenues in excess of $75 billion.
Arthur Edward Andersen was a founder of the accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP.
Michael William Wright was an American business executive and Canadian football player. He served as chief executive officer of SuperValu (1981–2001) and as a director of Wells Fargo & Company.
Enrique Hernandez Jr. is an American lawyer and business executive. He is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc., and a director of Wells Fargo & Company. He has been the non-executive chairman of McDonald's since May 2016, and a director since 1996.
Henry Alexander Benson, Baron Benson GBE was a British accountant best known as a partner of Coopers & Lybrand, an advisor to the Bank of England, his work organising the accountancy profession as president of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and for the part he played in various Royal Commissions.
Scott Thompson is an American businessman, and currently CEO of Tuition.io. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of ShopRunner.
William G. Parrett is a senior manager who has served public, private, governmental, and state-owned clients worldwide. In October 2008, Parrett was elected to the board of directors of UBS AG and, in November 2014, to the Board of Directors of UBS Group AG. In May 2018, he stepped down from this role and is focussing on the position of President of UBS Americas Holding LLC.
Peter Redmond Scanlon was the chairman and chief executive officer of Coopers & Lybrand, one of the Big Eight auditors, from 1982 to 1991. At a time when other accounting firms were merging, Scanlon kept Coopers & Lybrand independent and grew it through expansion rather than mergers.
Michael Herodotou Zampelas was a Cypriot businessman, politician and philanthropist.
Wallace E. Boston Jr. is an American academic administrator and businessman, currently serving as President Emeritus of the American Public University System. Dr. Boston had previously served as president from 2004 to 2016, and from September 2017 through August 2020.
James Joseph Schiro was an American businessman who became CEO of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Zurich Financial Services and was a director of number of multinational companies including of PepsiCo, Philips and Goldman Sachs.
Kithinji Kiragu, is a certified public accountant from Kenya. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Strathclyde, UK and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
