2024 Deloitte holiday travel survey

Kate serves as the Vice Chair and US Transportation, Hospitality and Services (THS) Sector Leader. She has over 27 years of risk management consulting experience.

Kate is a principal of Deloitte & Touche LLP. She has held several industry roles including the US Consumer industry leader and the US Retail and Consumer Products sector leader for the Risk and Financial Advisory practice.

During her Deloitte career, Kate has coordinated teams and led projects including Internal Audit, Sarbanes Oxley 404 testing, IT security and controls design and implementation and several security and privacy initiatives to assist clients with regulatory matters. She has also been responsible for developing and leading multi-functional services at large, global consumer clients.

She is an active spokesperson on retail and consumer products matters. She has been featured on CNBC, NECN’s Business Program and The Boston Globe.

Kate received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Stonehill College and master’s in accounting information systems from Bentley University. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a regular speaker on topics ranging from IT risk management to women’s leadership and authenticity in the workplace.

Eileen Crowley leads Deloitte & Touche LLP’s US Audit & Assurance Transportation, Hospitality & Services practice. She has a history of serving large, complex multinational companies on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting matters, mergers and acquisitions, information technology, and capital transactions.

Matt Usdin is a principal at Deloitte Consulting and leads the US and Global Human Capital M&A practice. He has experience advising corporate and private equity clients on achieving M&A value through the organizational, cultural, and HR implications of M&A transactions from due diligence to postclose integration/divestiture realization. He also has significant experience leading Integration and divestiture programs, advising on value capture and synergy realization, and day 1-readiness.

Matt Soderberg is a principal and leader of the Finance Operations Improvement practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP. He focuses on large-scale finance transformation programs. As part of these large transformations, he has helped his clients develop their vision for finance, optimized finance processes and organizations, and built and tracked business cases for finance transformation programs.

As Deloitte’s research manager for Transportation, Hospitality & Services, Maggie Rauch collaborates with firm leadership to design and execute research on the state and future of the industry. She has a decade of experience as a travel industry subject matter expert and research team leader.

Upasana Naik is a senior analyst at Deloitte’s Consumer Industry Center. She works with leadership to conceptualize, design, and develop research projects and statistical analysis focused on the transportation, hospitality and services industry. She has more than three years of experience in the TH&S industry.

Bryan Terry is a managing director with Deloitte Consulting LLP and serves as the firm’s global Aviation leader. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Terry has successfully led challenging and complex projects across the airline enterprise, including commercial strategy, operational excellence, customer experience, loyalty, crew and workforce management, cost reduction, information technology, and industry consolidation.