Thomas L. Monahan III is chief executive officer (CEO) and president of DeVry University, a for-profit higher education institution. [1] [2] He previously was CEO of CEB, which was acquired by Gartner, before resigning in 2017. [3] [4] He is chairman of ProKarma and a board member of Transunion. [5] [6]
Monahan grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts. [7] He holds degrees from Harvard University and New York University Stern School of Business. [8]
Prior to 1996, Monahan was a senior consultant at the Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, a director at the Committee for Economic Development, and a staff consultant at Andersen Consulting. [9] [10]
Monahan joined the leadership team of CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board) in 1996. He was named its chief executive in 2005 and chairman in 2008. [11] [12] He presided over an expansion of revenue, which increased 157% from 2005 to 2016. [12] During his term, CEB acquired Evanta Ventures, a Portland-based best practice insight and technology company. [13] CEB was acquired by Gartner in 2017 for $2.6 billion. [14] [15] He stepped down from CEB Inc. in June 2017. [14]
Monahan is chairman of ProKarma and a board member of Transunion. [5] [6] In August 2020, he was appointed president and CEO of DeVry University. [1] [2]
He has contributed several articles on business topics, including for CNBC, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review. [16] [17] [18] [19] He authored a column in The Washington Post called “Talent Matters." [20]
In June 2023, Tom Monahan was appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of global leadership advisory firm Heidrick & Struggles. [21] [22]
Monahan has also served as a board member of TransUnion (NYSE: TRU), where he is the Chair of its Audit & Compliance Committee and a member of its Nominating and Governance Committee. [23] He is also the executive vice chair of the DeVry University Board of Trustees. [24]
Monahan is involved in the non-profit sector, serving on the boards of the Johns Hopkins Health System [25] and the Boys and Girls Club of America [26] . He is also a trustee for The Nature Conservancy of Maryland and DC and a member of the The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. [27] [28]
Monahan is married to Sharon Kerrie Marcil, who graduated from Duke University and received an M.B.A. from Harvard University. [29] Marcil is the North America regional chair at the Boston Consulting Group. [30]
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