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Doug Sweeney is managing director, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP.

Mark Purowitz is a principal in Deloitte’s M&A consulting practice and leader of Deloitte’s Future of M&A initiative.

Here are the industry’s top 20, which brought in more than $700 billion in assets.

Teresa J. Verges is the director of Miami Law’s Investor Rights Clinic, where she teaches securities arbitration and broker-dealer regulation, and supervises law student interns handling FINRA arbitration claims on behalf of low income investors. Prior to joining Miami Law, Professor Verges served as Assistant Director of Enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission at the Miami Regional Office.

Tyrone Jeffress is vice president of engineering and US information security officer for Mobiquity.

Tarun Bhasin is CEO of Kunai.

Ancora, which previously took on Bed Bath & Beyond and Big Lots, argues the company suffers from poor leadership.

The Internal Revenue Service is pushing back the tax-filing deadline until May 17 after heavy pressure from Congress and tax and accounting groups.

Beth A. Berk, CPA, CGMA, is an independent recruiter and an actively licensed CPA in Maryland and Virginia and a CGMA with over 25 years of hands-on experience including public accounting (E&Y), consulting (KPMG and DelCor Technology Solutions), accounting (American Cancer Society), internal audit (MoneyLine Telerate), business development and fundraising (professional service firms and community foundation in Virginia), and recruiting within the metropolitan D.C. business community and beyond. She is based in Bethesda, Maryland and can be reached at BethABerk@msn.com or at (301) 767-0670.

Major hurdles stand in the way of wide adoption: regulation, security and cost.