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Wolfe Tone

US Deloitte Private Tax Leader
Deloitte Tax LLP
Wolfe is the US Tax Leader of Deloitte Private as well as a tax partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Over his career, he has served a variety of technology, life science, retail, professional services, manufacturing, and distribution clients, ranging from Fortune 500 multinational organizations to start-up ventures. For the past two decades, Wolfe has concentrated his professional efforts on advising complex family owned organizations, privately held businesses and private equity portfolio companies. As a trusted advisor to his clients, Wolfe has led multi-disciplined engagement teams that provide a variety of tax and non-tax services around the areas of corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, IPO planning, finance transformation, tax compliance and tax controversies assistance.

Wolfe is also the Global Deloitte Private Company Tax Leader, a senior advisor to the Deloitte Private Global Executive Committee and is a member of the US Deloitte Tax leadership group and the Chicago Tax leadership team. He has authored several articles on the impact of the 2017 Tax Act and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Politico, the New York Times, The Economist, and Investment News on these matters.

He received his BBA in Accounting at the University of Iowa and is a member of the AICPA and the Illinois CPE Society.

Wolfe’s community affiliations include Vice Chairman, United Way of Metro Chicago;
Board Member to the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame, Chicago Metro Chapter; member of the Fred Mitchell Award Selection Committee, and President of the Professional Accounting Council for University of Iowa Accounting Department.

SESSIONS

Main Stage Conference Introduction and Keynote Interview with Hon. Collins J. Seitz, Jr. Speaker

Opening remarks by Carey Oven, National Managing Partner, Deloitte’s Center for Board Effectiveness and Bill Rock, President, MLR Media. Directly followed by our opening keynote interview with the Honorable Collins J. Seitz, Jr., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware; interviewed by Wolfe Tone, U.S. Deloitte Private Tax Leader