PROFESSIONALS Accounting & Consulting Jimmy Etheredge CEO, North America Accenture Ed Heys Managing Partner Deloitte & Touche Richard Kopelman Managing Partner and CEO Aprio Jimmy Etheredge is CEO of Accenture North Ameri-ca, the global company’s largest geographic market, which generated $29 billion in revenues in fi scal year 2022. A member of the company’s Global Man-agement Committee, Etheredge leads nearly 80,000 people. Etheredge’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has helped the company earn numerous top rankings as a great place to work and a DEI leader. Prior to assuming his current role in September 2019, he was senior managing director, U.S. Southeast, responsible for 10 states. In that role, he extended Accenture’s innovation hub net-work, including creating a new hub at Georgia Tech. EDUCATION Georgia Tech NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Atlanta Business Chronicle Most Admired CEO (2018), led Accen-ture in championing the Safe Harbor Amend-ment in 2016 FIRST JOB Lifeguard BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Be present, stay in the moment. Focus on the conversation, issue, or task at hand. Yoga helps too. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Lake Glenville, North Carolina With more than 30 years of experience in profes-sional services, Ed Heys is the Atlanta and Bir-mingham managing partner of Deloitte & Touche, responsible for strategy, operations, talent, and business development for the multistate practice. He oversees more than 2,500 Deloitte profession-als based in Georgia and Alabama. As lead client service partner and advisory partner, Heys is re-sponsible for managing relationships with some of Deloitte’s most signifi cant clients in the region. De-loitte is one of the world’s largest consulting fi rms. EDUCATION University of Georgia Richard Kopelman serves as CEO and managing partner of Aprio, a nationally recognized, CPA-led business advisory fi rm. With nearly 30 decades of experience in public accounting, Kopelman has earned a reputation for providing clients, from start-ups to billion-dollar enterprises, with the highest level of service. Kopelman directed several strategic combinations for Aprio, expanding the fi rm into the Charlotte, Nashville, and New York markets. EDUCATION University of South Florida FIRST JOB Selling funeral services (age 12) with my mother HOBBIES Traveling, skiing, sailing FAVORITE MOVIE Smokey and the Bandit BUCKET LIST Morocco Law F. David Leiter Jr. Managing Partner, Atlanta Offi ces and Mid-South Hub KPMG Glenn Mitchell Atlanta Managing Partner Ernst & Young Theodore I. Blum Managing Shareholder and Chair, Atlanta Corporate Practice Greenberg Traurig F. David Leiter Jr. is the managing partner of KP-MG’s three Atlanta o ces as well as the account-ing fi rm’s mid-South hub, which includes Nashville, Birmingham, Memphis, Knoxville, and Jackson. In addition to leading the almost 2,000 people in these o ces, Leiter is a partner in the fi rm’s business tax services practice. With nearly three decades of expe-rience in the fi eld, Leiter provides multinational tax services to a broad range of KPMG’s audit and non-audit clients and has served as a lead partner for numerous Fortune 1000 and other publicly traded and private companies. EDUCATION University of Georgia (MAcc) HOMETOWN Marietta NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Leadership Atlanta class of 2009 WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Accounting is the language of business. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Put people fi rst. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Paris As Atlanta managing partner for Ernst & Young, a U.S. member fi rm of the global EY organization, Glenn Mitchell oversees nearly 2,400 professionals across EY’s service lines of tax, consulting, assur-ance, strategy, and transactions, and is strongly connected to the approximately 1,500 IT and advi-sory professionals in Alpharetta. Since returning to Atlanta with his family in 2015, Mitchell has joined the boards of the United Way of Greater Atlanta, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Woodru Arts Center, among oth-ers. EDUCATION Auburn University NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Atlanta Business Chronicle Most Admired CEO (2018), Leader-ship Atlanta class of 2017 TOUGHEST CHALLENGE When I moved my family out of Atlanta to take a leadership posi-tion with EY HIDDEN TALENT I’m a pretty good cook. Ted Blum is the managing shareholder of Green-berg Traurig’s Atlanta o ce, as well as chair of the Atlanta corporate practice. With expertise in cor-porate and business law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and corporate fi nance, he leads and advises on complex business transactions and pro-vides counsel on day-to-day operations. He’s also a member of the boards of the Woodru Arts Center and the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, general coun-sel to and a member of the board of advisers for the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, and chair of a Rotary Club of Atlanta task force on human tra cking. EDUCATION University of Michigan, North-western University Pritzker School of Law (JD) HOMETOWN Champaign, Illinois NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Rotary Club of Atlanta Ivan Allen Club Service Award (2019), Atlanta Business Chronicle Most Admired CEOs (2016), The Best Lawyers in America (2007-2020), Georgia Super Lawyers (2006-2019) BEST ADVICE RECEIVED The great Hank Aaron showed me that his success in business is important, but more important is his dedication to the community. ATLANTA 500
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