PwC’s Leader Confronts Tech Competition, Evolving Workforce (1)

PwC’s choice of Paul Griggs as its next senior partner is a nod both to the firm’s roots as a tax and accounting firm, and to its future as the Big Four firms grapple with the tech transformation of their businesses and demands of the incoming generation of workers. It also signals that most partners don’t want a top executive to shake up the firm.

Griggs rose up through the ranks of PwC LLP’s audit practice, but in recent years he has had a hand in running major aspects of the firm’s $23 billion business and championed its tech-heavy ...