Technology

Ray is Technology Sector Leader and a Technology Project Manager at Blue Heron. His responsibilities include setting the technology practice goals at Blue Heron. Ray started his career as a programmer and system analyst in the UK before moving to the US and becoming a technology journalist and technology and research analyst. He was an investment research analyst at Ziff Brothers Investments for more than 11 years. Ray has appeared on CNBC and written for Businessweek and the Financial Times. He has also written for several subscription-based technology newsletters focused on Unix enterprise software and hardware, the transition from client-server to service architecture, and the cloud. Ray has performed in-depth market and technical studies and consultations for several hardware and software vendors, including Nokia, Huawei, Sun Microsystems, SAP, and IBM. He has a master’s degree in information technology from Cranfield University in the UK.

Steve is Deputy Technology Sector Leader and a Technology Project Manager at Blue Heron. Previously, he produced reports on ASX-listed companies, focusing on TMT, for various platforms. Steve was also a journalist, newsreader, and editor in Australia, Asia, and Europe, reporting on politics, business, and finance for numerous media outlets including The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Steve has a master of laws (juris doctor) from Monash University and a master of international relations from the University of Melbourne.

Mary-Ellen is a Technology Project Manager at Blue Heron with a focus on hardware and the cloud. Before joining Blue Heron, she was a journalist for more than 25 years. Her journalism career included 20 years at Reuters in London, which culminated in managing global coverage of news about companies and markets.

Graham is a Technology Project Manager at Blue Heron with a focus on digital marketing and developer tools. He was previously founder and CEO of an award-winning digital creative agency, Polymath. Prior to that, he was managing director of Taglab, a web design and build agency, and a board director of Black Cat, Wunderman Thompson’s London-based direct marketing agency. In his spare time, he develops a fitness app, Reps & Sets, which has been featured by Apple on the App Store.

Adrian is a Technology Project Manager and Researcher at Blue Heron. With broad international experience following a career of over 20 years as a journalist and senior editor at Reuters, Adrian has led diligence projects for Blue Heron in several countries, including China, Japan, India, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Nigeria, as well as in Europe and the United States. Earlier in his career, while working for Reuters, he launched several real-time professional financial news services in Brazil, Japan, China, and India. Based out of Buenos Aires, he is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Rav is Deputy Technology Sector Leader and Deputy Director of Project Managers at Blue Heron. His responsibilities include overseeing project management at Blue Heron and helping to set technology practice goals. Rav joined Blue Heron after more than a decade in financial journalism. He has held several senior editorial positions at the Sunday Express, City A.M., and the Press Association. He holds a master’s degree in English literature and a postgraduate diploma in journalism. 

Luke is Technology Training and Education Leader and a Senior Technology Researcher at Blue Heron with a main focus on machine learning and AI. He was previously a technology journalist published in The Guardian, Wired, Politico, The Sunday Times, Digital Trends, and other outlets. He is the author of Thinking Machines and The Formula, both published by Penguin Random House, and has spoken at events organized by MIT, the BBC, and others. Based in the UK, he was a stakeholder in a five-year EU project examining the regulation of smart technologies.

Killian is a Technology Researcher at Blue Heron with a primary focus on financial technology. He is a former technology journalist and copywriter who spent more than a decade covering Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other industry giants for various publications. He was also a researcher on several books about Apple. Prior to this, Killian worked in the public sector.

Craig is a Technology Researcher at Blue Heron. Previously he was a journalist at Bloomberg and other global news agencies, where he covered healthcare, finance, technology, and other sectors from bureaus in London, Toronto, Singapore, Tokyo, and Mumbai. He has written widely about emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, and quantum communications. He divides his time between Canada and Singapore.

Hope is Deputy Director of US Researchers at Blue Heron. She previously spent four years as a researcher at OTR Global and, prior to that, was a manager at Covance, a leading biopharmaceutical clinical research organization. She developed and managed programs that preserve insurance coverage and improve patient access. She also developed tech-based solutions to assist with complex coding and reimbursement issues for various settings of care, implemented patient access programs, addressed payer issues, and conducted reimbursement trainings. Hope has a master’s degree in social welfare from UCLA.