Donald A. McGovern, Jr.

Donald A. McGovern, Jr. (Don) was appointed the Global Assurance Leader on July 1, 2008. Prior to his current role, Mr. McGovern was the Vice Chairman for Client Services for the New York Metro Region of PricewaterhouseCoopers’s U.S. firm since July 2007. He had been the Managing Partner of the U.S. firm's Silicon Valley Office in San Jose from July 2001 to June 2007. In addition, he was, from July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2008, a member of, and past lead director for, the US Board of Partners and Principals of PwC as well as a member of PwC’s Global Board. He is by background a High Technology Industry Assurance partner and served as the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) and lead assurance partner for Cisco Systems, Inc. Prior to Cisco Systems, he was the GEP and lead assurance partner for Applied Materials (semiconductor equipment) and Schlumberger Ltd. (oil field services and technology) and has served numerous other public companies as Quality Review Partner including Hewlett-Packard, Nvidia, eBay and Varian Medical.

Mr. McGovern has 34 years experience with PwC and has held various leadership roles at PwC’s US firm. He was the Regional Managing Partner for the Assurance practice for the New York Metro Region and a member of the US Assurance Leadership Team (July 1997 to March 2001); US Managing Partner for the Technology Industry Group and a member of the National Leadership Team (July 1995 to June 1997); and the Office Managing Partner for San Jose (January 1994 to June 1997). Mr. McGovern joined in Chicago on July 1, 1974. In 1982, he transferred to the National Technical Office in New York, where he served a two year tour in the firm's Auditing Methods Group, returning to Chicago in 1984. In July 1987, Mr. McGovern was admitted to the partnership and relocated to the firm's San Jose office.

In addition to directing the U.S. firm's services for large public company clients mentioned above, he has extensive securities experience related to initial public offerings (IPO) and other SEC registration statements, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and divestitures and the adoption and implementation of complex accounting standards. He has been the engagement partner on over 20 Silicon Valley IPO’s and concurring partner on at least 15 other IPO’s. In addition, he has assisted clients in over 10 merger and acquisition transactions in the past 5 years with an emphasis on due diligence, business issues, acquisition recording and reporting.

Mr. McGovern is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California and Illinois societies of CPAs. He is licensed to practice in California, Illinois and New York. He has served on various non-for-profit charitable organization boards within the past 10 years.

Mr. McGovern holds a master's degree in business administration which he received from DePaul University in 1975 and a bachelor's of arts degree in history and political science, which he earned from Marquette University in 1972. He also attended the Executive Program for Growing Companies of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1992.