The Paris-based audit firm Mazars is boosting its business in Geneva with a new hire from PWC.

Mazars is hiring Marcello Stimato as a partner in the audit department of its Geneva office, it said in an emailed statement statement Tuesday.

Previously, Stimato worked for PWC as a director. He is also chairman and member of the advisory board of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for the Canton of Vaud and French-speaking Switzerland, the statement said.