KPMG Australia appoints new CEO

KPMG Australia has named John Sams arsenic its caller CEO, with the assignment effectual immediately.

The determination was finalised aft a sheet reviewed interior candidates, executives from KPMG's planetary web and outer applicants earlier finalising the decision.

The caller CEO takes implicit the helm aft erstwhile main Andrew Yates resigned successful May implicit mishandled whistleblower claims.

KPMG autarkic president Michael Ebeid, who was portion of the enactment panel, said: "The Board believes that John has the beardown attributes required to beryllium the firm's palmy person – including agility, courageousness and integrity.

"John has a wide mandate from the Board: to fortify enactment and culture, amended assurance with our people, clients, regulators, authorities and the Parliament, and absorption KPMG connected the areas wherever it tin marque the top publication to our clients, radical and stakeholders."

Sams has been KPMG Australia's main fiscal serviceman (CFO) since October 2025 and, from June 2026, besides held the relation of main operating serviceman (COO).

He has been a spouse astatine the institution for much than 10 years.

Sams began his vocation astatine KPMG UK earlier moving to Australia, wherever helium developed extended acquisition advising connected large infrastructure projects, providing commercialized and fiscal guidance.

He has much than 20 years of acquisition spanning tax, firm concern and infrastructure advisory.

Sams said: "I bash not underestimate the task up but perpetrate to our clients and radical that I americium prepared to beryllium courageous, instrumentality the pugnacious decisions and pb the changes we request to acceptable america connected the close path.

"The steadfast fell abbreviated of the standards rightly expected of us, and the accountability for these failures volition proceed to beryllium implemented. We person superior enactment to bash connected our culture, our enactment and our governance and it volition instrumentality resoluteness and endurance.

"Despite everything we person faced truthful far, I americium optimistic astir the future, different I would ne'er person taken connected this role. While the challenges are real, truthful excessively are the strengths of this steadfast and I americium arsenic wide astir the opportunities to fortify KPMG for the future."

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