Pankaj Arora Joins Protiviti as a Director in the New Delhi Office

PRLog (Press Release) - May 30, 2007 -
New Delhi,May 30, 2007, Pankaj Arora has joined the New Delhi office of Protiviti, a leading independent provider of internal audit and risk consulting services, as a director in the company’s business risk practice. He will be responsible for strengthening the risk consulting practice with specific focus on outsourcing and cost reduction initiatives. His role also envisages further expansion of the transaction support and due diligence practice of Protiviti.

Pankaj joins Protiviti from Ameriprise Financial, spun off from American Express, where most recently he served as a director with the Strategic Transformation Group. At Ameriprise, he was working on various management consulting initiatives with a specific focus on cost reduction and outsourcing projects in their US office and was also a part of the leadership team which set up its Indian operations. Prior to Ameriprise/American Express, Pankaj was previously with Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young, where he provided risk consulting, transaction support and assurance services in India and United Kingdom.

Pankaj has a bachelor of commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce at the University of Delhi and is an Associate Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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Mritunjay Kapur
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About Protiviti
Protiviti (www.protiviti.com) is a leading provider of independent risk consulting and internal audit services. The company provides consulting and advisory services to help clients identify, assess, measure and manage financial, operational and technology-related risks encountered in their industries, and assists in the implementation of the processes and controls to enable their continued monitoring. Protiviti also offers a full spectrum of internal audit services to assist management and directors with their internal audit functions, including full outsourcing, co-sourcing, technology and tool implementation, and quality assessment and readiness reviews.

Protiviti, which has more than 50 locations in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE symbol: RHI). Founded in 1948, Robert Half International is a member of the S&P 500 index.

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