Today, PwC, Price Waterhouse Cooper, announced that their head of Global Consulting Operations, Mohamed Kande, would be tapped to head the company. This makes Kande, the first consultant from outside the company to be hired to the top position.

Mohamed Kande, is easily one of the best picks, Price Waterhouse Cooper could make. With the board lacking an official chain of devolution. And no one yet plausible amongst them, it only made sense that Kande would come to inhabit the spaces within Price Waterhouse Cooper that he has made way as.

If he’s able to continue to streamline the accounting unit, as well as update the processes which they use to enact them, incorporating Artificial Intelligence, Machine, and Language Learning Models. I think he will continue to have the sort of success which has set him apart from more established competitors within the firm. His business savvy, and “street cred”, as one of the foremost accountants, and consultants within that sphere, make him easily one of their best picks, and candidates since the earlier days of consolidation within the industry in the 1990’s.

It’ll be interesting to see whom Kande indeed chooses to surround himself with. Former Citi Bosses Chuck Prince, and Vikram Pandit, are easily within his orbit, as consulting majors. And Michael Corbat still has something to prove after his untimely ouster from the Commercial Mega Bank.

Ursula Burns of Xerox fame may also play a role, as she helped to mitigate losses in their business, at the helm, when the industry was in a period of great transition, and tumult.