Joe Foster is the Chief Strategy and Operating Officer of Deloitte’s Accounting and Reporting Advisory (ARA) practice and a member of Deloitte’s US Audit and Assurance Management Committee. After graduating from Auburn University, he began his career in Atlanta before spending four years in Stockholm and Helsinki. Joe has lived in Charlotte for almost fifteen years and was the partner-in-charge of Deloitte’s audit practice in the Carolinas and Tennessee from 2019 to 2023.