Quentin Cole
London Market Leader, PwC United Kingdom
Quentin holds the position of London Market Leader since November 2024 and is a former member of PwC’s UK Management Board.
Quentin is the Market Leader and Senior Partner for London, PwC UK’s largest geographical market. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the London Market and strengthening PwC's presence and identity in the capital. In addition to overseeing the firm's London based priority clients, Quentin acts as Senior Relationship Partner on a number of key client accounts and Alliance partnerships. He continues to advise and support clients with significant financial challenges, complex cost reduction, crisis management and major transformation programmes.
“The deep Industry and Sector knowledge and insight that our teams have is critical to ensure we focus on the major issues and opportunities facing our clients today and allows us to develop impactful solutions that make a difference to our clients’ success.”
Quentin began his career in industry, working in FMCG and retail, before joining PwC where he was a member of our Business Restructuring Services (BRS) team for circa 20 years. While in BRS, Quentin worked on many high profile and complex assignments in the private sector before specialising in turnaround and crisis management in the public sector and healthcare markets in 2005.
Quentin led the public sector restructuring team in BRS for a number of years and was for a period a member of the BRS Executive Leadership, before becoming the firm’s UK Industry Leader for Health Industries in 2015. Between 2018 and 2020, following PwC’s investment into the business, Quentin was a Director of Tendable Ltd a health technology scale up organisation focused on improving quality in health organisations and systems. From 2018 to 2021 Quentin led PwC’s combined UK Government & Health Industries practice and was the lead relationship Partner for the Cabinet Office. During 2020 to 2021 Quentin led and coordinated the firm’s COVID-19 response working with Government and the public sector.
From 2022 to 2024 Quentin was a member of our UK Management Board as Head of Industries, member of our Clients and Markets Executive and part of our EMEA Clients & Markets Leadership. Quentin led our UK Industry and Sector Leadership team across our seven industry groups - Financial Services, Private Equity, Consumer Markets, Technology Media & Telecommunications, Industrial Manufacturing & Services, Energy Utilities & Resources and Government & Health Industries. As part of his role on the Management Board he was responsible for setting the strategy and delivering the UK firm’s industry and client engagement programme.
Quentin has been a Partner since 2010. He graduated from Cardiff University in 1997 with a degree in History and has a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Gloucestershire.
Quentin is the Market Leader and Senior Partner for London, PwC UK’s largest geographical market. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the London Market and strengthening PwC's presence and identity in the capital. In addition to overseeing the firm's London based priority clients, Quentin acts as Senior Relationship Partner on a number of key client accounts and Alliance partnerships. He continues to advise and support clients with significant financial challenges, complex cost reduction, crisis management and major transformation programmes.
“The deep Industry and Sector knowledge and insight that our teams have is critical to ensure we focus on the major issues and opportunities facing our clients today and allows us to develop impactful solutions that make a difference to our clients’ success.”
Quentin began his career in industry, working in FMCG and retail, before joining PwC where he was a member of our Business Restructuring Services (BRS) team for circa 20 years. While in BRS, Quentin worked on many high profile and complex assignments in the private sector before specialising in turnaround and crisis management in the public sector and healthcare markets in 2005.
Quentin led the public sector restructuring team in BRS for a number of years and was for a period a member of the BRS Executive Leadership, before becoming the firm’s UK Industry Leader for Health Industries in 2015. Between 2018 and 2020, following PwC’s investment into the business, Quentin was a Director of Tendable Ltd a health technology scale up organisation focused on improving quality in health organisations and systems. From 2018 to 2021 Quentin led PwC’s combined UK Government & Health Industries practice and was the lead relationship Partner for the Cabinet Office. During 2020 to 2021 Quentin led and coordinated the firm’s COVID-19 response working with Government and the public sector.
From 2022 to 2024 Quentin was a member of our UK Management Board as Head of Industries, member of our Clients and Markets Executive and part of our EMEA Clients & Markets Leadership. Quentin led our UK Industry and Sector Leadership teams across our seven industry groups - Financial Services, Private Equity, Consumer Markets, Technology Media & Telecommunications, Industrial Manufacturing & Services, Energy Utilities & Resources and Government & Health Industries. As part of his role on the Management Board he was responsible for setting the strategy and delivering the UK firm’s industry and client engagement programme.
Quentin has been a Partner since 2010. He graduated from Cardiff University in 1997 with a degree in History and has a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Gloucestershire.
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