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Joe Echevarria

Chairman and CEO of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, Retired CEO of Deloitte LLP

Joe Echevarria is the recently retired CEO of Deloitte LLP, where his leadership responsibilities extended to approximately 70,000 professionals in nearly 90 U.S. cities and India.

He joined the Deloitte U.S. Firms in 1978 and became an audit partner in 1988. Since that time, he has held a wide range of leadership positions, including Chief Operating Officer.

During his tenure as CEO Echevarria chaired the U.S. Executive, was a member of the U.S. and Global boards, the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) Executive, and Chaired the Americas Executive.

Echevarria’ s work played a crucial role in serving the investor public and protecting capital markets, while providing high quality service to some of the firm’s largest and most valued clients. Deloitte hires more than 18,000 annually and Echevarria is known for his passionate support of talent and commitment to inclusion.

Echevarria was recently named to the Board of Directors of Bank of New York Mellon. He serves on the Audit (as Chairman), Finance and CSR committees of the bank.

President Obama recently announced that Echevarria will be the Chair and CEO of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.

Echevarria frequently speaks to influential media such as CNBC, Fox Business, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters about issues such as the U.S. Economy and business trends, professional services, and the audit profession.

Actively engaged in Washington, D.C., Echevarria was a panelist for the 2012 White House Forum on Women and the Economy and a keynote speaker at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Capital Market Summit. He has joined other CEOs to tackle some of the country’s biggest challenges through participation in both the Fix the Debt campaign and the Business Roundtable. Echevarria also regularly meets with leaders on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. He has been appointed by the President to be a member of the Presidents Private Export Council, Presidents Commission on Election Administration.

In addition he has maintained key contacts with the PCAOB and the SEC, the accounting professions and public companies primary regulators.

Echevarria balances career and family life with his wife, who works as a technology consultant for Bacardi, and their three children. Given his Hispanic roots he is committed to helping others. He actively supports education programs, especially in the South Bronx neighborhood where he grew up as an inner city latch key child; and through community organizations such as the Orange Bowl Committee one of whose focus is whose is fostering park programs for underserved youth. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Miami, where he serves on the Board of Trustees.

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