Investor Relations

Board of Directors

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Gary E. Holdren

Gary E. Holdren has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President and as a director since May 2004; as Chief Executive Officer of Huron Consulting Services LLC, our principal operating subsidiary, since June 2003; and President of Huron Consulting Services LLC since we commenced operations in May 2002.  He was elected chairman of the board of directors on November 3, 2004. Previously, he was a partner and the Midwest director of global client services of Arthur Andersen LLP, where he also served on the U.S. management committee from 1991 to 1998 and the executive council of Andersen Worldwide from 1994 to 1998.  Mr. Holdren has more than 30 years of experience consulting with corporations and legal counsel on complex financial and business matters, as well as broad experience serving as an expert witness.  He has extensive consulting experience in international tax, antitrust and corporate civil damages and has testified as an accounting and industry expert in federal tax court and federal district courts.  Mr. Holdren is a member of the boards of directors of Children’s Memorial Hospital and the Economic Club of Chicago.  He also serves on the executive committee and board of trustees of The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, as well as on the boards of trustees of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, and the Field Museum. Mr. Holdren is a member of the Business Advisory Council of the Richard T. Farmer School of Business, Miami University.  Mr. Holdren is a certified public accountant, licensed in Illinois

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George E. Massaro

George E. Massaro has served as a director since May 2004 and Vice Chairman since March 2005. Effective January 1, 2006, Mr. Massaro ceased to be an executive officer of the Company, retaining his role as Vice Chairman and dedicating his efforts to critical strategic initiatives for us, including major client assignments. He served as our Chief Operating Officer and as Chief Operating Officer of Huron Consulting Services LLC from June 2003 until March 2005. Mr. Massaro joined Huron Consulting Services LLC in August 2002 as a managing director and subsequently became the leader of our disputes and investigations and valuation services practices. Previously, he served as the managing partner of Arthur Andersen LLP's 1,200-person New England practice from 1998 to 2002 and managing partner of the Boston office from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Massaro has served clients in the financial services and high technology industries. Mr. Massaro serves as a director of Charles River Laboratories, a provider of research products and preclinical services for the biomedical community, and of Eastern Bank Corporation, an independent mutual bank holding company in New England. He is a certified public accountant.

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DuBose Ausley

DuBose Ausley was appointed to our board of directors on October 12, 2004. He is an employee of Ausley & McMullen, a law firm in Tallahassee, Florida, where he was chairman for more than 25 years prior to June 2002. Mr. Ausley is a director of Capital City Bank Group Inc., a financial services holding company, Tampa Electric Co. Inc., a public utility operating in the State of Florida, and its parent, TECO Energy Inc., and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc. He was also chairman of the Capital City Bank Group Inc. from 1982 to 2003. Mr. Ausley received a J.D. from the University of Florida School of Law.

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James D. Edwards

James D. Edwards was appointed to our board of directors on October 12, 2004.  Mr. Edwards retired in 2002 as managing partner—global  markets of Arthur Andersen LLP, a position he had held since 1998.  Mr. Edwards began his career with Arthur Andersen LLP in 1964 and served in several positions after that time.  Mr. Edwards is also a director of Cousins Properties, a publicly held REIT, IMS Health Incorporated, a global provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, Transcend Services, Inc., a provider of medical transcription services to the healthcare industry, and Crawford & Company, a global provider of claims management solutions.  Mr. Edwards is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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H. Eugene Lockhart

H. Eugene Lockhart was elected to Huron's board of directors on December 5, 2006. Since 2005, Mr. Lockhart has served as a partner and chairman, Financial Institutions, of Diamond Castle Holdings LLC in New York, a private equity investment firm. Mr. Lockhart is also a director of IMS Health Incorporated, a global provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries; Radio Shack Corporation, a retail seller of consumer electronic goods and services; and Asset Acceptance Capital Corp., a purchaser of accounts receivable portfolios from consumer credit originators. Since 2002, Mr. Lockhart has been a venture partner at Oak Investment Partners, a multi-billion dollar venture capital firm. Prior to that, from 2000 to 2002, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of New Power Holdings, a retail provider of energy to homes and small businesses throughout the United States. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Lockhart was president of Consumer Services for AT&T. His prior positions include President of Global Retail Bank and Bank of America, as well as President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard International. Mr. Lockhart received an MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia.

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John McCartney

John McCartney was appointed to our board of directors on October 12, 2004. Since January 2001, he has served as chairman of the board of directors of Westcon Group, Inc., a specialty distributor of networking and communications equipment, on whose board he has served since August 1998. He was elected chairman of the board of directors of A.M. Castle Corporation, a steel distributor, on January 25, 2007 and has served on that board since 1998. In July 2005, Mr. McCartney was elected to the board of Federal Signal Corporation. On July 16, 2007, Mr. McCartney was appointed a non-executive director of Datatec Limited, a networking technology and services company. He had previously served as vice chairman of the board of directors of Datatec from October 1998 until May 2004. From December 2003 until January 2007, he served as chairman of the board of First Circle Medical, Inc., a privately held medical therapy company. From June 1997 to March 1998, he held the position of president of 3Com Corporation’s Client Access Unit. He joined the executive management team of US Robotics in March 1984 as vice president and chief financial officer and served in various executive capacities until serving as president and chief operating officer of US Robotics from January 1996 until its merger with 3Com Corporation in June 1997. Mr. McCartney received an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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John S. Moody

John S. Moody was appointed to our board of directors on November 8, 2005. He is president of Proterra Realty, a startup fund manager investing in real estate in Houston, Texas. He joined the board of directors of Potlatch Corp. in September 2005. From 2001 to 2005, he served on the boards of directors of three publicly held REITs: Keystone Property Trust, CRIIMI MAE Inc., and Equity Office Properties Trust. From 2004 to October 2005, Mr. Moody served as president and chief executive officer of HRO Asset Management LLC, a real estate advisory business. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Moody served as president of Marsh & McLennan Real Estate Advisors Inc., a business that directed the execution of real estate projects and transactions for Marsh & McLennan. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Moody was president and chief executive officer of Cornerstone Properties Inc., an REIT that acquired, developed, and operated large-scale Class A office buildings in major markets throughout the United States and merged into Equity Office Properties Trust. Mr. Moody received a J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law.