Name Nicholas Moore | ||
Education University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
Nicholas G. Moore is a director at Wells Fargo & Company and retired chairman and chief executive officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Moore received his BS degree in accounting from St. Mary's College of California and his JD degree from University of California Hastings College of the Law. He entered Coopers & Lybrand in 1968 as an accountant and was admitted to the partnership in 1974. In 1981 he was named managing partner.
He was named chairman and chief executive officer of Coopers & Lybrand LLP in October 1994. Upon the merger with Price Waterhouse in July 1998, Moore was chairman and CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP until June 2000 and global chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers until June 2001.
Elected a director of Wells Fargo & Company in 2006, Moore is also a director of Gilead Sciences, Inc., Bechtel Group, Inc., and NetApp, Inc. He formerly served on the boards of Brocade Communications Systems and Hudson Highland Group, Inc.
He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the California Bar Association, and the California & New York Society of CPAs. Moore is a past chairman of the board of trustees of St. Mary's College of California and a past trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation.
In the political realm, he has been a member of Bush-Cheney 2004 election campaign and the Friends of Giuliani Exploratory Committee.