KPMG Taps Audit Managing Partner to Serve as Next US CEO (2)

Accounting and advisory firm KPMG LLP has tapped an audit leader to head the Big Four firm’s US arm as it navigates shifting regulatory policy in Washington and the artificial intelligence era.

Tim Walsh will succeed Paul Knopp after the US chair and chief executive officer’s five-year term expires in June. Knopp, who was auditing global companies when he was picked to chair the firm in 2020, and Laura Newinski, the firm’s deputy chair and chief operating officer whose term is also ending, plan to retire later this year, KPMG said Monday.

Walsh is the firm’s national managing partner for ...