Who Owns Protiviti?

The brand was born from the largest collapse in professional services history. When Arthur Andersen failed in 2002 after the Enron scandal, Robert Half recruited roughly 700 of its internal audit and risk professionals and organized them into a new subsidiary named Protiviti in May of that year.

Timing could not have been better. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, signed in July 2002, forced public companies to document and test internal controls, and Protiviti, unconstrained by auditor independence rules, became a leading provider of that work.

The brand expanded through the 2000s into international markets via the member firm network and broadened from internal audit into technology consulting, cybersecurity, data analytics, and finance transformation. The internal audit heritage remained its signature even as technology work grew to rival it in scale.

Recent positioning added digital transformation, cloud, AI, and ESG advisory to the mix. Revenue approached $2 billion by 2024, and the brand has been named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list for eleven consecutive years, a credential it markets heavily in talent competition.