By Andrew Blau, managing director, Deloitte Consulting US and Jen Steinmann, Chief Commercialization Officer | Salesforce, Deloitte Consulting LLP.
Punit is in his 33rd year with Deloitte and became CEO of Deloitte Global in June 2015. Deloitte operates in more than 150 countries, with approximately 300,000 professionals. Punit is also a member of the Deloitte Global Board of Directors.
As Deloitte Global CEO, Punit set in motion a global strategy to achieve undisputed leadership in professional services. In his first term, he led efforts that resulted in double-digit aggregate revenue growth globally, with Deloitte becoming the largest of the professional services organizations. Currently Deloitte is recognized as the strongest and most valuable commercial services brand. Also, during his tenure, Deloitte advanced audit quality through significant investments and focus.
As a tangible expression of Deloitte’s commitment to its purpose of making an impact that matters, Punit launched Deloitte’s signature corporate responsibility program, WorldClass, to empower 50 million people to succeed in a rapidly changing global economy. Punit is also committed to advancing diversity and inclusion at Deloitte, including through measurable actions toward gender balance across Deloitte and within its leadership ranks.
In June 2019, he started serving his second elected term.
Punit has held several leadership roles within Deloitte, including serving as the chairman of Deloitte LLP (US) from 2011-2015 and before that, as CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP (US). During his tenure as CEO of Deloitte Consulting, the practice experienced tremendous growth despite an ongoing recession, helping it become one of the largest consulting organizations according to leading analysts’ rankings.
Outside of Deloitte, Punit is a member of The Business Roundtable, The International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, and serves as the member of several not for profit boards including at the United Way Worldwide (chairman) and the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum (vice chairman). He was named an honoree to the 2012, 2013 and 2014 National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) “Directorship 100.”
Punit was born and raised in India. He moved to the United States after receiving a Rotary Foundation Scholarship to Willamette University. He has served on the board of trustees of Willamette University and was named among the 100 most influential business leaders who have graduated from schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International. In the spring of 2019, Willamette University conferred upon Punit an honorary doctorate. He is married and has a son." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/punitrenjen/">
Michele Parmelee is the global Chief People and Purpose Officer at Deloitte. In this role, Michele works to build the firm’s reputation, create a differentiated talent experience, develop insights, and promote and protect the Deloitte brand. In addition, she leads the Office of the Deloitte Global CEO and Deloitte Global Programs. She is a member of the Deloitte Global Executive Committee. As a consulting principal in the United States, Michele has 18 years of experience at Deloitte working with Financial Services clients in the areas of strategy and operations." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/micheleparmelee/">
She has long championed Deloitte’s ambition to achieve higher representation of women in leadership globally. In her role as Deloitte’s Talent Partner from 2006-2008, Sharon set up the firm’s diversity networks. She also introduced flexible working, childcare support, maternity coaching, and launched a ‘Women in Leadership’ group." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/sharonthorne1/">
Nick has worked with executive leaders in helping them understand and implement cyber risk strategies as a business enabler. He’s helped many organizations mature their overall security posture; including architecting, designing and integrating cyber solutions to address specific industry cyber risks. Nick has worked with a number of large enterprises across many industries, helping them transform their cyber strategy as they’ve moved from an era of compliance and risk to this new era of cyber everywhere.
Over the last several years Nick’s primary focus has been helping clients with the development and implementation of cyber risk management solutions both for IT and OT, making their organizations cyber resilient by proactively protecting, detecting, responding and recovering from cyber events.
Nick has a Master of Business Administration, and he is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, a Certified Information Security Manager, Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control and SABSA Certified Architect." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/nickgalletto/">
Beyond her audit background, Laurence Rivat is a specialist in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) technical accounting and advisory. From Paris, she heads an IFRS Centre of Excellence and is part of the Deloitte global team in charge of IFRS. She is also a Board member of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG, the technical advisor of the European Commission on IFRS) and is a former member of the IFRS Interpretations Committee of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/laurencerivat/">
Paul is focused on developing Deloitte’s community of TMT and Technology professionals and helping our technology industry clients transform their business and operating models to address the emergence of new, disruptive technologies. Areas of emphasis include helping our clients transform businesses to adopt flexible consumption or “as-a-service” models, enterprise use and adoption of AI technologies and global mergers, acquisitions and divestitures." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/pauljsallomi/">
For nearly 20 years, Philip focused on M&A tax, particularly on Private Equity, Real Estate and Hedge Funds. He has worked on some of the more significant, large and complex European transactions in recent years as well as supporting the Fund advisers. Most recently, he took on advisory roles to some of Deloitte’s largest multinational corporate clients." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/philipmills1/">
Vincent holds an MBA in Marketing from TiasNimbas Business School and a Bachelor in Commerical Engineering from Twente university, both in The Netherlands. He also completed post-graduate courses in marketing management and strategic thinking from Wharton Business School in the United States." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/vincentrutgers1/">
Donna has spent her career in Financial Services, routinely serving some of our practices’ largest clients with respect to projects regarding compliance, operations, internal controls, risk management, and business advisory services." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/donnaglass/">
Duncan is the Chair of Deloitte Canada and Chile and is a member of the Deloitte Global Board.
Duncan is passionate about growing and developing those around him, and building a better future for Canada and Chile. His deepest belief is that leadership is about rolling up your sleeves and getting to work on shared challenges. Throughout his career, Duncan has focused on the future of Canada and the impact that business leaders can have to shape outcomes for the benefit of our communities
Over his 31-year career, his professional activities include serving clients who are global institutional investors, public and private family owned global businesses in the mining, telecommunication, consumer business, manufacturing and real estate and construction industries, as well as national and regional governments.
" data-homepage-link="http://www.forbes.com/sites/duncan-sinclair/">Janet Foutty is US executive chair of the board, Deloitte. Janet is also a member of Deloitte’s Global Board of Directors, and chair of Deloitte Foundation. She previously served as chair and chief executive officer for Deloitte Consulting LLP and held numerous leadership roles at Deloitte including leader of its federal practice; leader of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s technology practice, and lead on various client programs that spanned retail, technology, government, energy, and financial services industries.
Janet currently serves on the board of directors for Bright Pink, a nonprofit dedicated to women’s health, Catalyst, a global nonprofit working to build more inclusive workplaces, the advisory boards of NYU Stern’s Tech MBA program, and Columbia Law School’s Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership.
" data-homepage-link="http://www.forbes.com/sites/janet-foutty/">Jen brings more than 25 years of experience in supporting her clients through the progressive transformation of their tax functions, enabling them to be strategic contributors to their stakeholders, systematically lower costs, and gain insights to address the growing complexities of the tax environment." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/people/jenknickerbocker/">