High E &Y’s
Photos of Bob Patton by David Neff Photography
Five
By Joseph Kornik
In just under
five years,
Bob Patton
has grown
Ernst & Young
Advisory into
a force to be
reckoned
with—turning
the practice
into a
$2.4 Billion,
10,000-
employee
juggernaut.
HERE’S
HOW.
There are a few seminal mo- ments in everyone’s career and Bob Patton vividly re-
members one of his: It was Septem-
ber 2008 at the height of the
economic collapse when banks were
failing and the stock market was
plunging. Patton was about to go be-
fore Ernst & Young’s board to re-
quest approval of a $500 million
investment plan to grow the Advi-
sory practice, which had recently
been split out of Assurance.
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January 2013 Consulting
