Nancy Calderon is KPMG’s Global Lead Partner for IBM, responsible for building and managing the firm’s global relationship with the company. In this position, Nancy manages a global team of 500 partners and professionals in more than 50 countries providing a wide range of services to this Fortune 25 company and its customers.
She is a board director of KPMG’s Global Delivery Center, Ltd., the firm’s operating arm in India and is a senior advisor to KPMG’s Board Leadership Center.
Prior to assuming this role, Nancy was Chief Administrative Officer, KPMG Americas Region, and U.S. National Partner in Charge, Operations. She was responsible for developing and executing many of the firm’s Operations strategies and key infrastructure initiatives, ranging from Information Technology and Finance & Accounting to Procurement, Real Estate, and Enterprise Risk. During the Financial Crisis she implemented a strategy that reduced the operational costs of the firm by $500 million. Her direct reports included the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer, and heads of Real Estate, Global Outsourcing and Procurement.
Nancy has over 30 years’ experience with KPMG, having held a variety of operational, client service, and leadership positions in the firm. Before moving to her current position, Nancy sat on a number of KPMG committees including the Americas Region Management Committee, Enterprise Risk Management, Privacy, Social Media, and Knowledge Management.
Nancy also serves on the WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation board and the Greater New York YMCA board, chairing the Audit Committees, as well as the CEO Search Committees. She is a member of The International and New York Women’s Forums. Nancy has been honored as a “Woman Worth Watching” and a Supplier Diversity Leader by Profiles in Diversity Journal. Nancy was honored as the NYC YMCA’s Volunteer of the Year and a recipient of the American Woman’s Society of CPA’s Woman of Courage Award.
Nancy co-authored a book with Susan Stautberg, “Women on Board – insider secrets to getting onto a board and succeeding as a director”.