Deloitte at the Warsaw Security Forum

Beth McGrath is Deloitte’s global leader for Government and Public Services. In her role, she is committed to strengthening synergies across global Industries and government and public services with a focus on client mission needs and solutions. McGrath has broad, multidisciplinary, strategic, and operational management experience acquired from 25+ years of successful performance in the United States government sector. As a member of Deloitte’s Strategy practice, she advises government and commercial organizations on strategies that help further innovation and improve business operations.

Mike Canning is the Deloitte Global Chief Strategy Officer and leads the Global Strategy, Innovation & Public Policy Office, an integral part of the Global CEO's executive committee. The team develops the strategic narrative, executes our Shared Agenda, and provides cutting-edge sensing; positioning Deloitte to thrive for the next decade. Mike previously led Deloitte's Government & Public Services Industry, which provides consulting services to states, cabinet-level agencies in the U.S. government, higher education, and non-profits. For nearly three decades Mike has specialized in helping clients address complex business issues with innovative solutions. Mike served as the lead for Deloitte's largest health care clients including strategic planning, merger and acquisition activities and business transformations. Prior to his role in GPS Mike was the Global Clients Leader for Global Clients & Industries, where he oversaw efforts to ensure Deloitte member firms consistently deliver exceptional quality.

Lars Ruth is a partner in the Cologne office and heads the Defense, Security and Justice sector within Government and Public Services. He has a wealth of experience as a staff officer in the German Armed Forces and began his career in the army, then switched to the navy and finally worked in the development staff of the Cyber and Information Space Command, where he developed and built up the Joint Situation Center. Through deployments and multinational assignments in the Netherlands and the United States, including NATO, he has a broad background in the international defense environment. After his time in the German Armed Forces, Mr. Ruth moved to the private sector and has been a valued partner for his customers in the public sector as well as the defense and security industry for many years.

Tomasz Konik has taken on the role of the Managing Partner at Deloitte Poland in June 2020 and has been with the firm for more than 20 years. Prior to becoming the Managing Partner at Deloitte Poland, he was Vice President of the Management Board in charge of the key clients and industry programs as the Clients & Industries Leader (since 2016) and successfully combined this role with responsibility for strategy and operations in Consulting (since 2017), which included human capital, change management, brand strategy, sustainable development, automation process and robotics advisory services. Between 2005 and 2017, he built and developed Deloitte’s tax teams in Katowice, Kraków, Rzeszów and Ostrava. Until 2005, he worked in the tax team at Deloitte’s office in Warsaw. During his professional career, he was an attorney in fact in one of the first Polish tax cases heard before the European Court of Justice. As a result of its resolution, Polish laws were amended and brought into line with the laws of the European Union. As the Managing Partner at Deloitte Poland, Tomasz continues to implement the firm’s strategy, one of the key priorities of which is for Deloitte to become an undisputed leader on the market of professional services, in line with the “Making an impact that matters” principle. Tomasz is actively involved in social and non-profit initiatives–he is a LeadersIN mentor and a member of the Champions of Change Club, which brings together CEOs of the major companies in Poland with the objective to support professional development of women. He is also a committed volunteer supporting, together with his family, holiday dinners for lonely people as well as Silesian equal opportunity organizations launching initiatives to take care of children from poor families in Katowice. Tomasz graduated from the University of Economics in Katowice and completed an international MBA program at St. Gallen Business School. He also studied at IMD in Lausanne, Harvard Business School and IESE in Barcelona. He has been a licensed tax adviser since 2004. Tomasz Konik is also a loving husband and a devoted father of two girls. He spends his leisure time actively, travelling around the world, running and mountain climbing.

Duncan leads Deloitte’s Strategy, Analytics and M&A (SAMA) Consulting Offering Portfolio in the UK. This comprises the Monitor Deloitte and Net Zero strategy teams, the firm’s AI & Data practice and AI Institute, and the M&A strategy & transformation capability. Duncan has worked across multiple industry sectors over his career and is currently the Lead Client Service Partner for our Defence business in the UK and Middle East. He is passionate about helping clients address their most complex business problems by developing actionable strategies that deliver value through growth, cost reduction, restructuring and digital transformation.