Jim Copeland retired as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (“Deloitte & Touche USA”) and as CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (“DTT”) on May 31, 2003.

As CEO of DTT, Jim guided DTT and its member firms, including Deloitte & Touche USA, through a period of the greatest revenue growth in the organization’s history and oversaw the move from being the fifth to the second-largest professional services organization in the world. He also led the Task Force to define and articulate the Deloitte & Touche USA culture, which contributed to Deloitte & Touche USA and its subsidiaries being recognized as one of FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” for each of the six years from 1998 through 2003. Jim also received recognition for further advancing Deloitte & Touche USA’s Women’s Initiative and helped to lead the profession in the appointment of women to partner and principal positions.

Jim currently serves as Senior Fellow for Corporate Governance with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as Global Scholar at Georgia State University’s Robinson School of Business, and as a member of the Board of Directors for Coca-Cola Enterprises, ConocoPhillips, Time Warner Cable and Equifax, Inc. Additionally, he is Chairman of the Audit Committee and on the Executive Committee at both Equifax and ConocoPhillips, Chairman of the Audit Committee at Time Warner Cable, and is Chairman of the Compensation Committee at Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Jim is also Chairman of the Board of the American Friends of the Phelophepa Health Care Train. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Georgia Research Alliance and is a Board member of the Voices for Georgia’s Children. Previously, he served as an International Councilor of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and on the Board of Directors of The September 11th Fund, the New York City Partnership and the U.S.-Japan Business Council, as well as serving on the Board of Trustees of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. Jim was a member of the Business Council of the World Economic Forum and has been a member of the Society of International Business Fellows since 1983.

Jim is a graduate of Georgia State University, and joined a predecessor of Deloitte & Touche USA in 1967. He became a partner in 1977, and assumed increasing levels of management responsibility, ultimately serving as vice chairman and regional managing partner. In 1992, he was selected as vice-chairman. The partners and principals of Deloitte & Touche USA elected Jim to serve as National Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche USA in 1994 and as CEO of Deloitte & Touche USA in 1999. In 1999, he was also elected to serve as CEO of DTT by the partners and principals of the DTT member firms.

Jim and Patricia, married since 1968, are both Georgia natives. They have two sons, Trip and David, four grandsons, and one granddaughter.