PwC U.S. announced that John Sabatini has joined the firm as a partner in the Risk Assurance practice, leading PwC's new Advanced Risk & Compliance Analytics Services. 

Sabatini and his team will help risk, compliance and finance organizations conduct testing and assessments using analytical systems and techniques; transform departments to better handle increasing data needs; build dashboards and surveillance systems to allow senior management to focus on highest risk areas; and, assist with data governance needs.

Prior to joining PwC, Sabatini worked for Goldman Sachs, where he served as managing director of IT. In that role, he led a global technology audit team responsible for evaluating the firm's internal control structure and providing strategic advice to management as they developed control solutions and monitored the implementation of management's control measures.

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Sabatini was a partner at Ernst & Young where he led the firm's Compliance Technology Enablement Group for the New York Financial Services office. Sabatini also served seven years in the U.S. military as an army captain and intelligence officer, primarily during the Balkan wars, building intelligence and communication systems.  He then joined Arthur Anderson in 1999.