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.

C. Mark Hussey

C. Mark Hussey was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Huron on July 18, 2011. Prior to joining Huron, Mr. Hussey served as chief financial officer at Crosscom National, LLC, a privately held professional IT services organization deploying and servicing in-store technology solutions for large, national retailers. In that role, he was responsible for all finance and administrative functions for the company. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Information Resources, Inc. (North America). During his career, Mr. Hussey has held senior finance, accounting and investor relations positions at entities such as EZLinks Golf, Inc., Dominick’s Finer Foods, Inc., and the Quaker Oats Company. Mr. Hussey received his M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and his B.S. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Certified Management Accountant, and Certified Public Accountant (Illinois).

James K. Rojas

James K. Rojas was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Huron Consulting Group Inc. and Huron Consulting Services LLC on March 31, 2011. He was named Executive Vice President on April 11, 2011. Mr. Rojas previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Huron, a position he had held since July 30, 2009. He also previously served as Huron’s Treasurer since November 3, 2009. Before returning to Huron, from 2007 to 2009, Mr. Rojas was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Stop & Shop and Giant Supermarket Company, a subsidiary of Ahold USA, Inc., a grocery retailer. Prior thereto, he was the Executive Vice President – Shared Services of Ahold USA, Inc. from January 2007 to June 2007. Previously, from January 2006 to December 2006, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Administration Officer of U.S. Foodservice, a broadline foodservice distributor. Prior to that, from March 2005 through December 2005, Mr. Rojas served as Vice President of Corporate Development for Huron, as well as a managing director of Huron Consulting Services LLC from May 2002 through March 2005. Mr. Rojas received his B.B.A., with a concentration in Accounting, from the University of Notre Dame.

Diane Ratekin

Diane E. Ratekin was appointed Vice President and General Counsel of Huron on February 22, 2011, and was named Executive Vice President on April 11, 2011.  She was appointed Corporate Secretary on December 12, 2011.  She had previously served as Huron's Assistant Corporate Secretary since May 6, 2009.  Ms. Ratekin has been employed in Huron's legal department since January 2005, and previously served as our Deputy General Counsel.  Prior to joining Huron, Ms. Ratekin was a partner in the Corporate Department of McGuireWoods LLP.  Previously, she spent 17 years in the legal department of Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., formerly known as Zurich Scudder Investments, Inc. and Kemper Financial Services, Inc., where she was a Director and Team Leader of the Corporate and Investments Team. Before that, Ms. Ratekin was a litigator at Jenner & Block.  Ms. Ratekin is admitted to practice in Iowa and Illinois.  She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the Association of Corporate Counsel.  She received her B.A. in English and her J.D. from the University of Iowa.

Thomas Burns

Thomas Burns was appointed Huron’s Controller effective October 1, 2009. He was appointed Corporate Vice President on March 31, 2011. Previously he had served as Huron’s Director of Revenue since joining the Company in 2005. Prior to joining Huron, Mr. Burns had served as Director of Finance for American Tower Corporation, a leading provider of wireless and broadcast towers worldwide, and as Director of Financial Reporting and Budgeting for 360° Communications Company, a wireless communications company. Mr. Burns received a BS in Accounting from the University of Illinois.