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Ernst & Young names new consulting chief

Terry Ozan replaces retiring Roger Nelson.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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Professional services firm Ernst & Young today named Terry Ozan chief executive of the firm's consulting practice.

Ozan, a 29-year veteran of Ernst & Young, replaces Roger Nelson, who led the company for eight years and is retiring on October 1.

Ozan, 53, will be responsible for the company's $4 billion, 19,000-person global consulting organization.

Over the last eight years, Ozan has worked with the international consulting organization on the Global Management Consulting Executive Committee and as a board member on the European and Asia/Pacific Global Client Consulting Groups.