{"entity":"deloitte","id":"ent_deloitte","name":"Deloitte","predicate":"founder","label":"founder","page":"https://asof.is/record/deloitte/founder","as_of":"2026-11-01","summary":"As of November 1, 2026, Deloitte's founder on the AsOf record is William Welch Deloitte, undated on the record, from 2 secondary sources (supplychaindigital.com and deloitte.com). The record holds 1 claim on Deloitte's founder, 1 still open and 0 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted.","current":["clm_C97BCCDCC40C"],"latest_period":null,"claims":[{"id":"clm_C97BCCDCC40C","value":"William Welch Deloitte","valid_from":null,"undated":true,"valid_to":null,"published":"2022-07-15","recorded":"2026-11-01","confidence":0.6,"status":"valid","assertable":true,"superseded_by":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://supplychaindigital.com/supply-chain-risk-management/deloitte-a-professional-services-timeline-through-history","tier":"secondary","publisher":"supplychaindigital.com","published_at":"2022-07-15T00:00:00+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/about/story/purpose-values/our-history.html","tier":"secondary","publisher":"deloitte.com","published_at":null},{"url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q491748","tier":"secondary","publisher":"Wikidata","published_at":null}],"evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-11-01","quote":"The firm is founded in 1845 London by William Welch Deloitte, a British accountant with a grandfather who fled France during the French Revolution, Count de Loitte.","url":"https://supplychaindigital.com/supply-chain-risk-management/deloitte-a-professional-services-timeline-through-history"}}],"replaced":[],"faq":[{"question":"What is Deloitte's current founder?","answer":"William Welch Deloitte, undated on the record, from 2 secondary sources (supplychaindigital.com and deloitte.com). The record asserts this claim as of November 1, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.60)."}],"legend":{"dates":"valid_from: when the claim took effect (a period figure: the day its period closed). published: the earliest day a source on the record published it (a filing's filing date, a post's date; null when no source carries one). recorded: the day AsOf first held it. A figure can take effect weeks before it is published.","why_not":{},"checked_by":{"page-read":"its source page states the value and the date"}}}