Board of Directors
John McCartney
John McCartney was elected Non-executive Chairman of the Board of Huron effective May 3, 2010. He has served on our board since October 12, 2004, the date of our initial public offering. From that date, until recently, he served as chairman of the Audit Committee. From January 2007 until April 2010, Mr. McCartney served as chairman of the board of directors of A.M. Castle & Co., a global distributor of specialty metal and plastic products, and has served on that board since 1998. From January 2001 until March 2009, he 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. From December 2003 until January 2007, Mr. McCartney served as chairman of the board of First Circle Medical, Inc., a privately held medical therapy company. On May 7, 2009, he was elected to the board of Covance Inc., a biopharmaceutical drug development services company. On July 16, 2007, he 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 July 2005 until April 2010, Mr. McCartney served on the board of Federal Signal Corporation, a safety and security products manufacturer. 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 his B.A. in Philosophy from Davidson College and his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
George E. Massaro
George E. Massaro resumed the position of Vice Chairman of Huron’s board on May 3, 2010, a role in which he had previously served from March 2005 until July 30, 2009. Mr. Massaro had assumed the role of Non-executive Chairman in July 2009, to assist the new management team upon the departure of the Company’s former Chairman. He has served as a director of Huron since May 2004. Effective February 16, 2009, Mr. Massaro ceased to be an employee of Huron. 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. He 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 also a member of the board of trustees of Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. Mr. Massaro received his B.A. in Accounting and Finance from Bentley College and his MBA from Babson College.
James H. Roth
James H. Roth has served as Chief Executive Officer of Huron Consulting Group Inc. and Huron Consulting Services LLC, our principal operating subsidiary, since July 30, 2009. He was appointed President of Huron on March 31, 2011. Mr. Roth was elected to Huron’s board of directors on November 3, 2009. Previously, he served as Vice President, Health and Education Consulting for the Company since January 1, 2007. Since Huron’s inception in 2002, Mr. Roth has been a managing director and practice leader of the Company’s Higher Education Consulting Practice, which he grew into one of our largest organically grown practices. Mr. Roth has been a frequent speaker in national forums on matters relating to higher education and academic medical centers. He has also been instrumental in expanding our educational and healthcare practices into the Middle East and Asia. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Vanderbilt University and his MBA from Southern Methodist University.
DuBose Ausley
DuBose Ausley was elected to our board of directors on October 12, 2004. He is an employee of Ausley & McMullen, P.A., 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 Company, a public utility operating in the State of Florida, and its parent, TECO Energy, Inc.; and Capital Health Plan, an affiliate of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. on whose board he served from 1982 to 2005. Mr. Ausley served on the Board of Regents of the State University System of Florida from 1978 to 1994, and served as its chairman in 1981 and 1982. He also served on the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University for 10 years. In addition, he served as chairman of the Capital City Bank Group, Inc. from 1982 to 2003. Mr. Ausley received his B.A. in Economics from Washington and Lee University and his J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law.
James D. Edwards
James D. Edwards was elected 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 Incorporated, a publicly held REIT; Transcend Services, Inc., a provider of medical transcription services to the healthcare industry; and Crawford & Company, a global provider of claims adjustment and risk management solutions. Until February 2010, he had served on the board of IMS Health Incorporated, a global provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Mr. Edwards received his B.S. in Accounting from Bob Jones University and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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, Diamond Castle Holdings LLC in New York, a private equity investment firm. Mr. Lockhart is also a director and audit committee chairman of RadioShack Corporation, a retail seller of consumer electronic goods and services, and serves on the board of Asset Acceptance Capital Corp., a purchaser of accounts receivable portfolios from consumer credit originators. Previously, he had served on the board of IMS Health Incorporated, a global provider of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, until February 2010. 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 his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and his MBA from The Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. In addition, Mr. Lockhart is a CPA, licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
John S. Moody
John S. Moody was elected to our board of directors on November 8, 2005. He is president of Parkside Capital, formerly known as ProTerra Realty, a fund manager investing in real estate in Houston, Texas. He joined the board of directors of Potlatch Corp., a real estate investment trust, in September 2006, and on January 19, 2009 he assumed the role of Vice Chairman of Potlatch Corp. 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 until 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., a REIT that acquired, developed and operated large-scale Class A office buildings in major markets throughout the United States and that merged into Equity Office Properties Trust. Mr. Moody received his B.A. in History from Stanford University and his J.D. with honors from The University of Texas School of Law.