My “sweet spot” is the intersection of business, technology and strategy, where I thrive on instigating ideas and nurturing the shifts in mindset and culture to realize transformation.

Kristin Valente

EY US-West Accounts Managing Partner

Strategist and innovator. Idea instigator, risk-taker and changemaker. Believer in the diversity of thought. Wife. Mother of three. Sister to 12. Chef and artist. Advocate for at-risk youth.

Kristin serves as the Accounts Managing Partner for the EY US-West Region, where she leads teams in delivering value and distinctive service across thousands of clients. She has delivered difference-making services, ideas and insights to executives at leading consumer and technology companies. Previous EY roles include Global Client Service Partner, Americas Innovative Assurance Leader, technology risk advisor and auditor. She’s served the firm from five different US offices.

Innovation and transformation are at the core of her 30-year consulting career – pioneering solutions and capabilities; serving clients’ growth agendas; and delivering value to the world’s most innovative companies. A skilled strategic transformation architect, Kristin visions solutions to address business challenges at the intersection of business processes and technology. She is respected by clients to be a critical success factor to their high-stakes initiatives. 

Kristin has an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Santa Clara University, California, and is a licensed CPA.

How Kristin is building a better working world

By making connections, bringing insights, and delivering responsive teams around the world, I enable leaders to deliver on their growth agenda and ambitiously realize the future, together.

I am passionate about the power of potential – that everyone has the power to write their own story. I help others to bravely discover and nurture their gifts so that we have the courage and conviction to realize our unique greatness.

Together with my family, we are actively involved in our community — supporting education and entrepreneurship and advocating for at-risk youth.

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