Meet the Tech Trends 2013 authors

Mark White, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Mark White is the Chief Technology Officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Technology practice, the Global Technology Eminence and Innovation leader and a senior IT principal on the Department of Homeland Security account team.

Bill Briggs, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Bill Briggs is passionate about disruptive digital technologies. In his roles as Global lead of Deloitte Digital and deputy Chief Technology Officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP, Bill combines deep technology implementation experience with a farsighted view of the evolving technology landscape.

Suketu Gandhi, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
With over 19 years of experience in the IT arena focusing on “consumer-driven businesses,” Suketu leads the IT Strategy & Management service line in the Global Technology Advisory practice and the Postdigital Enterprise^TM market offering, focused on provoking and harvesting the disruption of the five postdigital forces.

Bill Briggs, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Bill Briggs is passionate about disruptive digital technologies. In his roles as Global lead of Deloitte Digital and deputy Chief Technology Officer of Deloitte Consulting LLP, Bill combines deep technology implementation experience with a farsighted view of the evolving technology landscape.

Mike Brinker, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
For two decades, Mike Brinker has been helping clients navigate the ever-changing world of technology. His deep insights and experience enable Mike to understand the particular needs of a client's business, develop practical business solutions and bring change that can produce results.

Shehryar Khan, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
As the mobile lead for the Deloitte Digital service line, Shehryar Khan focuses on helping clients use mobile to drive organizational transformation – identifying opportunities where mobile can truly impact both user and business goals.

Stephen Redwood, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Stephen Redwood specializes in helping organizations transform through culture change, leadership development, behavioral change and organization redesign. He supports clients in their efforts to address the human capital and organizational implications of emerging technologies.

Chris Heuer, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Chris Heuer is a leading social media and collaboration strategist, focused on Social Business strategy, design and adoption. Chris helps organizations apply design thinking to cross-boundary collaboration between employees, partners and customers to save time and improve performance.

JR Reagan, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP
JR Reagan, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, is the U.S. Federal Chief Innovation Officer and also leads the HIVE (Highly Immersive Visual Environment), a state-of-the-art demonstration and development center located with the Center for Federal Innovation in Arlington, Virginia.

Nelson Kunkel, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Nelson is the National Creative Director at Deloitte Digital, leading a group of experienced creative and design thinkers to transform the postdigital landscape. His primary focus is to evangelize the role of design in technology and the ways in which we can affect the lives of others through our client's work.

Edward Reddick, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Eddie Reddick is a Director in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Public Sector practice with over 20 years of experience as a manager and leader. He has led and contributed to consulting assignments covering business and IT strategy, portfolio management, network engineering, cloud strategy and migration.

Bruce Short, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Bruce Short is a Director in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Technology, Strategy & Architecture practice. His areas of specialization include enterprise data center and networking design, operations and strategy with supporting capabilities in IT asset management, IT security, disaster recovery and IT operations.

Vikram Mahidhar, Director, Deloitte LLP
Vikram Mahidhar is a Director in Deloitte LLP’s innovation group, which focuses on the development of next generation business intelligence products and services comprising big data, semantic intelligence, analytics and mobile.

David Steier, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
David Steier leads the Deloitte Analytics Solutions Group. Using advanced analytic and visualization techniques, David’s team of specialists help clients across a variety of industries to solve complex technical problems.

Doug Palmer, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
For as long as “social” has been a phenomenon in the business world, Dr. Doug Palmer has been helping clients leverage its potential for competitive advantage. Doug currently leads the Social Business practice, advising clients in areas related to social media, collaboration, gamification and the adoption of emerging technologies.

Andre Hugo, Director, Deloitte Digital RSA
As Director of Deloitte Digital in South Africa, Andre assists clients in leveraging disruptive digital technologies, enabling them to cost effectively deploy new business models and access new markets or revenue streams.

Bill Allison, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Bill Allison serves as the Consulting Global Technology Services leader, responsible for the delivery of full life cycle technology services to clients. He has more than 25 years of experience in the analysis, design and implementation of information systems, systems strategy and business process improvement.

Richard Kupcunas, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Rick Kupcunas is a Director in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Technology/Oracle practice. He is recognized as a technology and knowledge leader with respect to Oracle database, infrastructure, integration and application server technologies.

Kelly Bissell, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Kelly Bissell leads Deloitte’s Information & Technology Risk Management and Global Incident Response practices. In his 25-year career, he has led numerous projects ranging from Breach Forensics, Cyber Security and Identity Management to Privacy, Data Protection and IT Risk Management.

Kieran Norton, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP
As the U.S. Cyber Threat Management leader, Kieran Norton assists clients in transforming their current efforts into advanced cyber threat management programs, building threat defense architectures, cultivating actionable cyber threat intelligence and responding to cyber incidents.

Bryan Funkhouser, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Bryan Funkhouser currently leads the Project & Portfolio Management offering within Deloitte's Technology practice and is also a national leader for the Client Excellence program, which sets the strategy and professional development standards for the organization’s client leadership roles.

Peter Vanderslice, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Peter Vanderslice currently leads the CIO program for Deloitte. He has over 25 years of experience in high technology and strategic IT management consulting, including the alignment of business and IT strategy and the structuring of large-scale IT transformation programs.