Laura Schweitzer, a 24-year veteran of PwC, has been appointed director of the data and analytics practice at Herndon, Va.-based health information technology contractor B3 Group.
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Guidehouse-PwC Team to Help Manage Fed’s Main Street Lending Program; Scott McIntyre Quoted
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has selected a Guidehouse-PwC partnership to support a new program that will offer loans to small and medium-sized businesses. Guidehouse said Monday it will help manage asset purchase intake, due diligence and credit processes for the Main Street Lending Program.
Read More »Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, Named to 2019 Wash100 for PwC Public Sector Arm Rebranding and Cybersecurity Leadership
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena — for his leadership in PwC’s rebranding into Guidehouse and his role in expanding cybersecurity in the company. This marks the third consecutive Wash100 award for McIntyre.
Read More »Former PwC Exec Dave Burg Named EY Americas Cybersecurity Leader
Dave Burg, former global cybersecurity leader at PwC, has been appointed to succeed the retiring Bob Sydow as cybersecurity leader for the Americas region at EY‘s advisory services business effective Oct. 1. EY said Monday Burg will help develop the firm’s EY cybersecurity consulting programs and offerings intended to help clients manage cyber …
Read More »PwC Public Sector Rebrands as ‘Guidehouse’ Under Veritas Management
The PwC Public Sector business acquired by investment firm Veritas Capital in May now operates under the name Guidehouse, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Guidehouse’s website says the company will offer technology, management and strategy consulting services to multiple sectors that include the defense, national security and state and local government markets. …
Read More »PwC Establishes Israel Center for Global Cybersecurity Support Services: Grant Waterfall Comments
PwC has established a facility in Israel that will support the protection of critical infrastructures, industrial control systems and operations technologies of worldwide governments and multi-national companies in the industrial sector. The Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is intended to provide a comprehensive cybersecurity framework that will cover approaches for the digital …
Read More »Microsoft, PwC Expand Partnership to Offer Cybersecurity Suite
PwC has expanded its partnership with Microsoft in a push to help customers secure business systems and data with a suite of cybersecurity services and tools. The alliance’s new offerings will cover enterprise security architecture, identity and access management, threat and vulnerability management, information protection and cloud information security, PwC said Monday. …
Read More »Former PwC Partner Jean Hobby Elected to CA Technologies Board
Jean Hobby, a 33-year PwC veteran and former global strategy partner of the professional services firm, has been elected to serve on CA Technologies‘ board of directors. She will also serve on CA Technologies’ audit committee and her appointment will bring the number of board members to 11, the company said Thursday. Hobby …
Read More »PwC Report Shows $12B Increase in US Aerospace, Defense R&D Spending
A study by PwC’s consulting arm shows that U.S. aerospace and defense companies’ spending on research and development efforts has climbed by nearly $12 billion so far this year, Defense News reported Wednesday. The Global Innovation 1000 study conducted by Strategy& has found that top U.S.-based A&D firms recorded $11.79 billion in R&D …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Interview with Chris Stansbury, Managing Director & Public Sector Sales Leader at PwC
“[PwC] is a firm whose mission and purpose is to provide high-quality consulting that helps the government solve complex problems that impact our society today and into the future.” EM: Could you tell us about what you do with strategic sales and pipeline development at PriceWaterhouseCoopers? Chris Stansbury: At PwC …
Read More »PwC Offers Strategies for Defense Contractors That Seek Emerging Market Opportunities
PwC‘s strategy and consulting team has suggested various strategies the group believes can help defense companies win contracts in emerging countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, South Korea and Japan. PwC advisers Randy Starr and Anurag Garg wrote in a 2017 trend report they forecast that defense contractors will increasingly seek business with individual nations as …
Read More »PwC Report Forecasts 5 Global Trends That Could Disrupt Defense & Security Environments
A new report from PwC details five global trends the consulting firm forecasts as set to disrupt defense and security environments across the world. PwC said Thursday the “Five Megatrends and their implications for Global Defense and Security” report analyzes the potential impacts from shifts in global economic power; demographic shifts; urbanization; the rise …
Read More »Executive Profile: David Walker, Senior Strategic Adviser for PwC US Public Sector Practice
David Walker serves as senior strategic adviser for the public sector practice at PwC’s U.S. arm. In this capacity, the 40-year audit industry veteran offers advice to senior government officials and PwC executives on public sector and financial restructuring issues. Before he joined PwC in 2015, Walker served as the …
Read More »PwC Survey: 91% of Enterprises Adopt Cyber Frameworks to Detect Network Vulnerabilities
A new PwC survey says 91 percent of business organizations have implemented the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework and other risk-based security guidelines in an effort to detect and mitigate cyber threats. PwC polled at least 10,000 C-suite executives of information technology and security firms from more than 127 …
Read More »Executive Profile: Chris Stansbury, PwC Managing Director & Public Sector Sales Lead
Chris Stansbury serves as managing director and public sector sales lead at PwC, where he oversees customer sales and public sector business development. Before he joined PwC in 2005, Stansbury served as the managing director and global healthcare sales lead at BearingPoint and a global account executive at SAP. He also …
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