Barry salzburg biography

Barry Salzberg (born October 1953) is an American businessman, accountant, and lawyer.^[1][2] Salzberg is full-time Professor at Columbia University and former global Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a position he held from June 2011 until May 2015.^[3][4][5]

Biography

Salzberg is Jewish, and grew up in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn, the youngest of five siblings.^[6] His parents were clerks, and he and his older sister were the first in his family to attend university.^[7] His father died while Salzberg was in high school, so he worked to help his family financially, and continued to live at home and work while he attended college.^[8] He is the father of Matt Salzberg co-founder of Blue Apron.^[9]

Salzberg earned an undergraduate B.S.

degree in accounting from Brooklyn College in 1974, a JD from Brooklyn Law School (1977), and an LLM in tax fro