"Wilhelm Simons is the Assurance leader of the Romanian and South Eastern Europe practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a Certified Public Accountant (Wirtschaftsprüfer) and Tax Adviser (Steuerberater) and joined PwC in 1989 in the Frankfurt office of PwC. Wilhelm joined PwC Romania in September 2007. He was the leader of Assurance practice in Poland for 9 years (starting with November 1998), bringing with him substantial experience in special projects gained through his work on many long-term international assignments. Wilhelm has extensive experience in consulting, especially focusing on private sector development in the fields of auditing, financial and economic analysis, cost accounting, budgeting, restructuring and privatisation. Before moving to CEE he was involved in the development of the private sector industry projects financed by the European Union, the EBRD and other International Financial Institutions, which were carried out in Central Europe. Wilhelm led a number of audit engagements in the construction, energy and retail sectors. He is familiar with Romanian, Polish, French, German, UK and US-GAAP as well as with IFRS. Wilhelm is fluent in German, English and Spanish, and has advanced knowledge of French. The most significant clients included in his portfolio over the years are Ferrovial, Haniel, Hochtief, Bilfinger Berger, METRO Group, RWE, Shell, Bayer, Commerzbank, Algeco, Nordzucker, Volkswagen.