Peter Brady has joined accounting firm RSM McGladrey as a managing director and leader of the firm’s risk-management practice in New York.

An accomplished senior executive, Brady has over 21 years of experience in risk management, internal audit, and internal controls. Prior to joining McGladrey, he held several leadership positions with Ernst & Young. As a U.K. partner, he led the development of risk practices in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions. In 2002, he moved to the United States to lead the Big Four firm’s Global Center for risk and for the past three years worked in the Financial Services Office in New York.

Brady’s clients have ranged from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies and operate in the financial services, energy, telecommunications entertainment, and retail and consumer products sectors. He focuses on solving complex business issues by working closely with senior management to generate ideas, initiate change, build consensus, and resolve mission-critical problems with scalable, practical solutions.