Quentin Cole
Head of Industries, PwC United Kingdom
Quentin joined PwC’s Management Board on 1 January 2022 and holds the position of UK Head of Industries as well as being a member of the firm’s Clients and Markets Executive Committee.
Quentin leads our UK Industry and Sector Leadership teams across our seven industry groups - Financial Services, Private Equity, Consumer Markets, Technology Media & Telecommunications, Industrial Manufacturing & Services, Energy Utilities & Resources and Government & Health Industries.
As part of his role on the Management Board he is responsible for setting the strategy and delivering the UK firm’s industry and client engagement programme.
“The deep Industry and Sector knowledge and insight that our teams have is critical to ensure we focus on the major issues and opportunities facing our clients today and allows us to develop impactful solutions that make a difference to our clients’ success.”
Quentin began his career in industry, working in FMCG and retail, before joining PwC where he was a member of our Business Restructuring Services (BRS) team for circa 20 years. While in BRS, Quentin worked on many high profile and complex assignments in the private sector before specialising in turnaround and crisis management in the public sector and healthcare markets in 2005.
Quentin led the public sector restructuring team in BRS for a number of years before becoming the firm’s UK Industry Leader for Health Industries in 2015. Between 2018 and 2020, following PwC’s investment into the business, Quentin was a Director of Perfect Ward Ltd (now Tendable) a health technology scale up organisation focused on improving quality in health organisations and systems. From 2018 to 2021 Quentin led PwC’s combined UK Government & Health Industries practice.
During 2020 to 2021 Quentin led and coordinated the firm’s COVID-19 response working with Government and the public sector. He continues to advise and support clients with significant financial challenges, complex cost reduction, crisis management and major transformation programmes. Quentin is an active client relationship partner.
Quentin has been a Partner since 2010. He graduated from Cardiff University in 1997 with a degree in History and has a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Gloucestershire.
Quentin joined PwC’s Management Board on 1 January 2022 and holds the position of UK Head of Industries as well as being a member of the firm’s Clients and Markets Executive Committee.
Quentin leads our UK Industry and Sector Leadership teams across our seven industry groups - Financial Services, Private Equity, Consumer Markets, Technology Media & Telecommunications, Industrial Manufacturing & Services, Energy Utilities & Resources and Government & Health Industries.
As part of his role on the Management Board he is responsible for setting the strategy and delivering the UK firm’s industry and client engagement programme.
“The deep Industry and Sector knowledge and insight that our teams have is critical to ensure we focus on the major issues and opportunities facing our clients today and allows us to develop impactful solutions that make a difference to our clients’ success.”
Quentin began his career in industry, working in FMCG and retail, before joining PwC where he was a member of our Business Restructuring Services (BRS) team for circa 20 years. While in BRS, Quentin worked on many high profile and complex assignments in the private sector before specialising in turnaround and crisis management in the public sector and healthcare markets in 2005.
Quentin led the public sector restructuring team in BRS for a number of years before becoming the firm’s UK Industry Leader for Health Industries in 2015. Between 2018 and 2020, following PwC’s investment into the business, Quentin was a Director of Perfect Ward Ltd (now Tendable) a health technology scale up organisation focused on improving quality in health organisations and systems. From 2018 to 2021 Quentin led PwC’s combined UK Government & Health Industries practice.
During 2020 to 2021 Quentin led and coordinated the firm’s COVID-19 response working with Government and the public sector. He continues to advise and support clients with significant financial challenges, complex cost reduction, crisis management and major transformation programmes. Quentin is an active client relationship partner.
Quentin has been a Partner since 2010. He graduated from Cardiff University in 1997 with a degree in History and has a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Gloucestershire.
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