BDO USA has hired Bernadette Pieters as its first chief diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) officer. Her hiring came as the firm also announced its first DEI Transparency Report this month.
Pieters job is to head the firm’s DEI strategy and lead programs and “to create impact, foster change and continue to build a sustainably inclusive and equitable culture.”
She joined BDO in 1992 and became a partner and human resources principal in 2017. Pieters has more than 25 years of HR experience and leads the firm’s people and culture talent acquisition and field teams.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind