New Delhi: India- born Punit Renjen has been appointed as the CEO of Deloitte Global (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu). He will succeed Barry Salzberg on June 1.
Renjen will now become the first Indian-Origin person to head a ‘Big four' audit firm and has also joined the league of personalities like Indira Nooyi who heads Pepsico, Satya nadela of Microsoft and Anshu Jain of Deutsche Bank.
Punit Renjen hails from Rohtak in Haryana and has done his schooling at Lawrence School in Himachal Pradesh. After this, he enrolled himself in Willamette University in the US for higher education.
While Renjen grew up in India, he has been with Deloitte for over 27 years now.
He has held a number of leadership positions, including chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP. He now also serves as a member of the board of directors of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (Deloitte Global), and as Chairman of the Deloitte Foundation board of directors.
“I am honoured to have been elected as Deloitte Global's next CEO,” Mr. Renjen said in a statement.
“Mr. Renjen's leadership appointment is part of a rigorous and comprehensive nomination and member firm partner ratification process that occurs every four years and includes all member firms of the Deloitte worldwide network,” Deloitte said.
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