Barry Salzberg | |
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Alma mater |
Brooklyn College Brooklyn Law School (JD; 1977) New York University School of Law (LLM in tax) |
Employer | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited |
Title | Global Chief Executive Officer |
Barry Salzberg (born October 1953) is an American businessman, accountant, and lawyer. [1] [2] Salzberg is full-time Professor at Columbia University and former global Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a position he held from June 2011 until May 2015. [3] [4] [5]
Salzberg is Jewish, and grew up in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn, the youngest of five siblings. [6] His parents were clerks, and he and his older sister were the first in his family to attend university. [7] His father died while Salzberg was in high school, so he worked to help his family financially, and continued to live at home and work while he attended college. [8] He is the father of Matt Salzberg co-founder of Blue Apron. [9]
Salzberg earned an undergraduate B.S. degree in accounting from Brooklyn College in 1974, a JD from Brooklyn Law School (1977), and an LLM in tax from the New York University School of Law. [10] [3] [5] [11]
Salzberg joined Deloitte in 1977, and became a partner of Deloitte U.S. in 1985. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte LLP (United States) from 2007 to 2011. [3] [5]
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