Tim WiestPrincipalDeloitte ConsultingExcellence in Public Sector
At 5 a.m. on almost any Saturday morning in the fall, you'll probably find Tim Wiest up a tree, literally. He'll be holding a bow and arrow and hunting white-tailed deer before the sun's even up near his home in Harrisburg, Pa.
It turns out, the middle of Pennsylvania is an ideal place to be a hunter. It's also, Deloitte Consulting found out, the best place to serve the Commonwealth. Wiest, a principal and 23-year veteran of Deloitte, once tried to serve his government clients from Pittsburgh, but that was before the firm embarked on its Capital City Initiative in the mid 1990s. "We were trying to serve the state capital from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and we decided we needed to be in the city where government was being operated," Wiest says. "So, Deloitte stepped up and put an office in Harrisburg in 1995."
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