Business fellows and former KPMG summer interns Susan Honeycutt ’08 and Allison Elmers ‘08 guided Milano on a tour of campus. Elmers, the first Love Scholar in the Love School, and Honeycutt have secured positions after graduation with KPMG, one of the world’s premier providers of audit, tax and advisory services. KPMG is a global network of more than 113,000 professionals working in member firms in 148 countries.
Milano, a certified public accountant, is partner-in-charge, university relations, diversity, and alumni programs, for KPMG, and president and trustee of the KPMG Foundation, an independent charitable trust created to focus on the needs of the academic and business communities. One of the Foundation’s key initiatives is the Ph.D. Project, which reaches out to bright, highly motivated minorities, encouraging them to consider doctoral studies in business and careers as business professors.
Milano is the creator and director of The PhD Project, which is co-sponsored by some of the most prominent corporations, academic organizations, and universities in the U.S., including the Love School of Business at Elon University. He graduated from Temple University with a degree in accounting and began his career with Peat Marwick in the audit practice of the Philadelphia office.
In 1975, Milano transferred to KPMG’s executive office. He is also a member and former vice chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board for the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, and co-chair of the Business Higher Education Forum Diversity Initiative Steering Committee.