Meet Steve Wagner | Sarbanes-Oxley | Profile

Steve Wagner is the managing partner for Deloitte & Touche USA LLP’s U.S. Center for Corporate Governance, where he leads the firm’s integrated strategy on governance, risk, and compliance. Steve’s vision for the Center for Corporate Governance is to provide a platform for education, dialogue and thought-leadership that will help advance collaborative efforts between corporations, the accounting profession, academia and government in the area of corporate governance. He assumed this role in June 2005.

In this role, Steve leverages the knowledge and expertise that he gained during the prior three years as co-leader of Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Sarbanes-Oxley service offerings, where he developed strategies and solutions to respond to clients’ Sarbanes-Oxley needs. He has been a leader and significant contributor to Sarbanes-related thought-leadership, methodologies, service offerings, and publications. Steve is a frequent speaker on Sarbanes compliance, and co-developed Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Sarbanes-Oxley Sustained Compliance Solution Framework, which is being used by Deloitte clients to derive value from their compliance efforts. Steve has contributed articles to a variety of national publications, including an April 2006 piece in Harvard Business Review on the benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley, and a chapter in the ABA publication, “The Practitioner’s Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.” In early 2006, Business Finance Magazine recognized Steve as one of the 60 most influential voices in accounting and finance.

Steve serves as the innovation leader for Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Audit and Enterprise Risk Services practice. Steve is also the executive producer of the innovative Dbriefs Webcast Series for Financial Executives. He has over 34 years of accounting and auditing experience, and was previously the managing partner of the New England Assurance practice. He has extensive experience serving large, complex businesses, including retail and consumer products companies and other SEC registrants.

A Massachusetts resident, he is a member of the board of directors of the United Way of Mass Bay and is chair of the United Way audit committee. He also is chair of the our national United Way steering committee. Steve is an avid marathoner, having participated in every Boston Marathon since the year 2000, which he runs to raise contributions for breast cancer outreach programs.