Trevear Thomas

U.S. MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, AND RESTRUCTURING LEADER, AND GLOBAL BOARD MEMBER, DELOITTE

Trevear is an accomplished business professional with over 25 years of experience serving corporate and private equity clients in the M&A and Restructuring marketplace. Trevear has expertise in strategy, due diligence, integration, divestiture, restructuring, P&L management, and governance. As an advisor and director on boards, Trevear has consistently demonstrated his ability to deliver independent perspectives and results, while effectively engaging with diverse stakeholders – CEOs, CFOs, COOs, directors, and operators.

As a business leader, Trevear has a proven track record of building, leading, and scaling high performing teams. Trevear currently serves as the U.S. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring leader with more than 7,000 professionals in a $3.8B practice — representing capabilities in each of Deloitte’s businesses across all industries. He has achieved 29% growth with a focus on growing core/emerging markets, advancing our hybrid model with a particular emphasis on DEI talent acquisition and retention, and framing the next wave of innovation using AI enabled solutions. Most recently, Trevear has been appointed to serve on Deloitte’s Global Board where he is responsible for providing governance oversight of Deloitte’s $59B global organization.

Trevear has deep and unique governance experiences. He is currently serving on Deloitte Global LLP’s Board of Directors. His board committees include Finance & Accounting, and the Transformation and Technology committees. During Trevear’s time on the board, he has participated in CEO succession, crisis management events, acquisitions, divestitures, long term strategy sessions, as well as an oversight steering committee associated with Deloitte’s exit from Russia and Belarus. In addition to his Global Board role, he has had several governance related experiences by being selected to Deloitte’s Board Council (a Board chair appointed role where he served on the global committee, participated in four board meetings, and delivered a special project that focused on delivering the “Sense of Partnership” experience; Nominating Committee (a Board chair appointed role that is responsible for conveying the voice of the partnership, and nominating six new board members as well as the CEO and Chair elected leaders); and nominated as a Deloitte US Board member.

Trevear received his Bachelor of Science from Clark Atlanta University and his Master of Business Administration from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Before joining Deloitte, Trevear worked for Shell Oil Company.