Ex-PwC chief Tom Seymour forced from the shadows

When Senator Deborah O’Neill last year forced the parliamentary tabling of the PwC emails that revealed the firm’s breaches of government confidentiality provisions, then-chief Tom Seymour wasn’t too fussed.

The other people on the emails? Not involved, he insisted. The whole thing involved one ex-partner and the firm, to his mind, suffered from a “perception issue”. Or so he told our colleague Jennifer Hewett on stage at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in May 2023.