Philip Rotner served as the US and Global General Counsel of Deloitte, a professional services organization with worldwide revenue in excess of $35 billion, from 1995 until his retirement in 2014.  Philip reported directly to the CEO and Board of Directors.  Upon his retirement, the Deloitte Global Board of Directors passed a Resolution praising Philip as a General Counsel “with unequalled vision, skill, intelligence and integrity,” and stating that “the Deloitte network is now immeasurably better positioned to face the challenges of the future because of Philip’s visionary leadership.” The Board observed that without Philip’s “vision, skill, integrity, intelligence and collegiality it is hard to imagine what [Deloitte] and its network would look like: Philip’s vision is now our reality.”

Philip’s responsibilities at Deloitte included advising the U.S and Global Executive Committees, and the Risk, Compensation, and Succession Committees of the U.S. and Global Boards of Directors.  He developed and led a group of attorneys and accounting experts located in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, London, Hong Kong and Milan, and established and led a global legal network consisting of attorneys representing over 100 different countries.  His areas of responsibility included crisis management, governance, corporate structure, regulatory, claims, technology and corporate services.  

In 2010, Philip initiated and led the Deloitte organization’s complete global restructuring.   

Prior to serving as Deloitte’s General Counsel, and for a brief period between his service for the US and Global Deloitte organizations, Philip was engaged in private practice in San Francisco and Chicago.  As a partner in the McCutchen firm in San Francisco, Philip served as Chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Group, and represented issuers, underwriters, Big 4 accounting firms, venture capitalists and officers and directors in dozens of high-profile shareholder class actions. During his twenty-year tenure at the McCutchen firm, Philip was selected to be Chair of the Securities Litigation Section of the San Francisco Bar Association.  

Philip has served for over 25 years on the Board of Directors of Theatre For A New Audience in New York City, one of the nation’s pre-eminent classical theaters.  He currently serves as a member of the Board’s Executive, Governance, Compensation, and Audit (Chair) Committees. Philip also serves as a member of and the Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committees of the Board of Directors of BroadStage in Santa Monica, California.  Philip also previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago.  Other past professional activities include teaching as a member of the Visiting Faculty in the Harvard Law School Trial Practice Program, and as a guest at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Boalt Hall School of Law.

Philip holds an A.B. degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.  

Philip resides in Chicago and Los Angeles with his wife, Janet.