Leading finance and accounting figure appointed MCA president

One of Britain's top finance and accounting figures has been elected president of the Management Consultancies Association (MCA).

Pat Newberry of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was elected to the post having previously held one of the three vice-president posts with the MCA.

Mr Newberry is a partner at PwC and head of private sector consulting and has over 20 years of experience in financial services. He is also a member of PwC's supervisory board.

His main areas of speciality focus on banking operations as well as retail insurance and reinsurance.

In addition, Mr Newberry has a wealth of experience with general insurers in the UK, Europe and the United States.

The MCA contains 56 member companies and around 40,000 consultants.

Consultant News estimates that the association's membership covers 70 per cent of the consulting industry and that its members are linked to more than 90 of the FTSE 100 companies. Its reach is also said to cover all parts of the public sector.

Updated: 15 March 2010.
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