Russell A. Beliveau
Russell A. Beliveau retired as President of Investor Relations at MAXIMUS in September 2001. He previously served as President of Business Development from September 1998 until October 2000 and President of our Government Operations Group from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Beliveau has more than twenty years’ experience in the health and human services industry during which he has worked in both government and private sector positions at the senior executive level. Mr. Beliveau’s past positions include Vice President of Operations at Foundation Health Corporation of Sacramento, California from 1988 through 1994 and Deputy Associate Commissioner (Medicaid) for the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare from 1983 until 1988. Mr. Beliveau received his Masters in Business Administration and Management Information Systems from Boston College in 1980 and his B.A. in Psychology from Bridgewater State College in 1974.
John J. Haley
John J. Haley, Director, has served as one of our directors since his election in June 2002. Mr. Haley is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Watson Wyatt & Company Holdings, a human resources and employee benefits consulting firm. Mr. Haley joined Watson Wyatt in 1977. Mr. Haley is also a director of Watson Wyatt & Company Holdings and serves on the Watson Wyatt LLP Partnership Board. Mr. Haley is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and is a co-author of Fundamentals of Private Pensions (University of Pennsylvania Press). He has an A.B. in Mathematics from Rutgers College and studied under a Fellowship at the Graduate School of Mathematics at Yale University.
Paul R. Lederer
Paul R. Lederer, Director, was appointed to the MAXIMUS Board of Directors in April 2003. Mr. Lederer brings more than thirty years of management experience and leadership in the commercial business sector to MAXIMUS. Lederer was most recently with Federal Mogul as an Executive Vice President. He had previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Fel-Pro, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Federal Mogul. Lederer held various senior positions with Stant, Epicor Industries, and Parker Hannifin. Mr. Lederer holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois and received his J.D from Northwestern University.
Peter B. Pond
Peter B. Pond has served as one of our directors since his election by the board in December 1997 and as Chairman of the Board since September 2001. Mr. Pond is a founder of ALTA Equity Partners LLC, a venture capital firm, and has been a General Partner of that firm since June 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Pond was a Principal and Managing Director in the Investment Banking Department at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation in Chicago and was head of that company’s Midwest Investment Banking Group. Mr. Pond holds a B.S. in Economics from Williams College and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago. He is also a director of Navigant Consulting, Inc.
Marilyn R. Seymann
Marilyn R. Seymann, Director, has served as one of our directors since her election in April 2002. Since 2007, Dr. Seymann has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the International Institute of the Americas, a college focused on adult education. Before that, she was Associate Dean of the College of Law at Arizona State University from 2005 to 2007 and President and Chief Executive Officer of M One, Inc., a corporate strategy and governance consulting firm for public and private companies, from 1991 to 2005. Prior to forming M One, she held senior management positions with Chase Bank, Arthur Andersen, and was the Associate Dean of the College of Business at Arizona State University. Dr. Seymann holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from California Western University. She is a director of Beverly Enterprises, Inc., Community First Bankshares, Inc., and NorthWestern Corporation.
Governor James R. Thompson, Jr.
Governor James R. Thompson, Jr., Director, has served as one of our directors since his election in March 2001. Governor Thompson currently serves as Chairman of the Chicago office of the law firm of Winston & Strawn, a position he has held since January 1993. He joined that firm in January 1991 as Chairman of the Executive Committee after serving four terms as Governor of the State of Illinois from 1977 until January 1991. Prior to his terms as Governor, he served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1971 to 1975. Governor Thompson served as the Chief of the Department of Law Enforcement and Public Protection in the Office of the Attorney General of Illinois, as an Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, and as an Assistant State's Attorney of Cook County. He is a former Chairman of the President's Intelligence Oversight Board and presently serves as a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Governor Thompson is currently a member of the boards of directors of Navigant Consulting, Inc., Prime Retail, Inc., FMC Corporation and FMC Technologies, Inc., and he is a trustee of the Prime Group Realty Trust. Governor Thompson also serves on the boards of directors of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc., the Japan Society (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Lyric Opera, and he is a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Governor Thompson attended the University of Illinois and Washington University, and he received his J.D. from Northwestern University in 1959.
Mayor Wellington E. Webb
Mayor Wellington E. Webb, Director, was appointed to the MAXIMUS Board of Directors in September 2003. Mayor Webb completed his third, four-year term as Mayor of the City and County of Denver, Colorado in 2003. Prior to first being elected as Mayor in 1991, he served at the state, local, and federal levels in several capacities including Denver City Auditor, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, and Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare. Mayor Webb's distinguished public career began in 1972 when he was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives. Mayor Webb holds a B.A. in Sociology from the Colorado State College at Greeley and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Northern Colorado. He also holds honorary Doctorates from the University of Colorado at Denver and from Metropolitan State College.
Richard A. Montoni
Richard A. Montoni has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since March 2002, and assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer, President and Director in April 2006. Previously he served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for Managed Storage International, Inc. in Broomfield, Colorado from December 2000 to August 2001. From October 1996 to December 2000, he was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for CIBER, Inc., a NYSE-listed company in Englewood, Colorado where he also served as a director until March 2002. Before joining CIBER, he was an audit partner with KPMG, LLP, where he worked for nearly 20 years. Mr. Montoni holds a Masters Degree in Accounting from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Boston University.
Raymond Ruddy
Raymond Ruddy, Vice Chairman, was re-appointed to the MAXIMUS Board of Directors in August 2004. Mr. Ruddy retired from MAXIMUS in 2001 after nearly 17 years with the Company. Mr. Ruddy was President of the MAXIMUS Consulting Group as well as the Chairman of the Board. He has been involved in charitable activities since his retirement. Mr. Ruddy holds a B.S. in Economics from Holy Cross College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining MAXIMUS in 1985, Mr. Ruddy served in various capacities as a partner at Touche Ross & Company, including Director of Management Consulting in New England and Associate National Director of Consulting.