Our Team
1000+ Years of Combined Experience
H.S. Grace & Company, Inc. team members bring more than 1,000 years of combined senior management experience to the table. Our board of advisors and consultants hold advanced degrees – PhDs, MBAs, CPAs, masters in finance and JDs – in varied disciplines in a wide range of industries. They have spent their long careers working as senior executives (CFOs, SVPs, COOs) for major corporations. Through this collective bench strength, HSG offers an unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise to address client issues.
Depending on the specifics on a particular assignment, we will assemble a team with the right mix of hands-on experience and expertise to address the issues. As needed, we also can draw upon our network of consulting experts for specialized knowledge or in-depth industry background.
Officers
H. Stephen Grace Jr., Ph.D.
President H.S. Grace & Company, Inc. Former CFO Century Development Corporation Former Chair, Financial Executives International
Steve Grace
COO, H.S. Grace & Company, Inc. Former AVP, J.P. Morgan Chase, Application Integration
Our Board of Advisors
James J. Abel
Board of Directors, President and CEO, CPI Corp.; Board of Directors, EVP and CFO (Ret.) Lamson & Sessions Co.; Former Chair, President and CEO, Financial Executives International
Dan Brill, MBA
Retired Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer of Global Cash and Trade Finance, Global Head of Leverage Finance, Co-Head of Corporate Loan Restructuring for Citibank
Gary P. Brooks, CPA, MBA
Former CFO of diversified holding company that included the Houston Astros, the Astrodome Complex, cable television, hospitality, and real estate; Former Senior VP and CFO, Saber Energy (later Valero); Former CFO of private specialty agricultural technology development company; Former President Financial Executives International (Houston Chapter)
James N. Clark, MBA
Board of Directors, EVP and CFO (Ret.), Western & Southern Financial Group, Inc.; Former Chair, Financial Executives International
Jeffrey E. Curtiss, CPA, CFA, J.D., L.L.M. (Taxation)
Former NCG Chairman of KBR 2017-18, Former Audit Committee Chair of KBR for 2007–2017; Former CFO, Service Corporation International and Browning-Ferris Industries; Director Financial Executives International (Houston Chapter); Director of CFA Society (Houston)
Pamela Joubert Davis
Government Banking, JPMorgan Chase; SVP, Chase Bank; Past Board member, The Children's Museum Houston
Alvin Fenichel, CPA, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Ret.) AXA Financial/AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company (SEC Registrant 1991-2012 and NYSE 1992 - 2001); Former Senior Financial Officer of CBS Consumer Products Group and Officer responsible for Internal Audit, CBS Inc.; Member of Board and former President of NYC Chapter of Financial Executives International
Charles ("Chuck") Fischer
Director, Americas Financial Practices (Ret.), Hewlett Packard Company; Board Director, NW Municipal Utility District 5, Cypress, TX; United Way of Greater Houston, Volunteer performing annual financial and governance reviews of United Way funded agencies
Frank Gatti, MBA, CPA, NACD Leadership Fellow
NACD - Fellow; Board of Directors of NACD/NJ, Audit, Programs, and Sponsorship; Finance Committee of The Conference Board; Board of Directors, Audit (Chair), Special and Nominating/Governance Committees of Blackboard, Inc. (2004 IPO-2011 sale); Former CFO (ret.) ETS; Former VP/Financial Management & VP/Chief Accounting Officer of The New York Times Co.
Suzanne H. Gilbert, MBA
Member board of directors of an electric vehicle company (Audit Committee Chair, member of Compensation, Nomination and Corporate Governance Committees); Former Trustee of Fielding Graduate University (Chaired Budgeting, Finance and Audit Committee and member of Investment and IT Committees); Vice Chairman - Worldwide CFO of Initiative Media (Ret.); Previously EVP, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Campbell-Ewald Worldwide
David Gilfillan, J.D.
Chief Claims Officer, CRC Group, Wholesale & Specialty Brokerage – Atlanta; Regional Claims Executive, AIG-Atlanta Georgia (Ret.); Senior VP, D&O Claims, AIG-New York
Louis Grumet, J.D.
Former Executive Director, New York State Society of CPAs and New York State School Boards Association
Edward A. Grun, NCARB, AIA
Principal, Gensler (Ret.)
Sheryl L. Hopkins, J.D., MBA
Former Practicing Attorney, Akin Gump, Vinson & Elkins, Locke Lord (f/k/a Locke Purnell) and Gordon Arata (Management Committee)
Peter Howell
Direktor, Credit Risk Management (Ret.), Deutsche Bank A.G.
Ann Kaesermann
VP, Controller (Ret., Hilcorp; Former Chief Accounting Officer, Mission Resources; Board Member, Treasurer and Finance Chair, Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
Nicholas J. Lomonte
VP Finance (Ret.), ABB Lummus Global Inc.
Steven B. Lilien, Ph.D., CPA
Weinstein Professor of Accounting, Former Dir. of Center for Financial Integrity, Baruch College, The City University of New York
S. Khalid Masood, CMA
Finance Director and CFO, Jubail Water and Power Co., Jubail, Saudi Arabia; Former Board Director and CFO, Hub Power Co., Karachi, Pakistan
Kirk B. Michael
Former CFO: Intelligent Energy Solutions/E3 Greentech Enterprises, Inc.; Indianapolis Power & Light Company; Globeleq Ltd.; and Duke Energy Services
Joseph P. Monteleone
Former Partner: Weber Gallagher LLP, Rivkin Radler LLP, Tressler LLP and Duane Morris LLP; VP and Claims Counsel: The Hartford and Kemper Insurance Companies
Don Phillips
Former Chevron Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M; Former CEO, Lodestone, Inc.
S. Lawrence Prendergast, MBA
MBA from NYU and BA in Mathematics from Brown University. VP and Treasurer, AT&T; CEO and Chair, AT&T Investment Management Corp; EVP of LaBranche & Co., a NYSE firm; Current Chair, the Turrell Fund; board member for private equity boards at JP Morgan; former board member for four public company boards. Author of "Uncommon Profits Through Stock Purchase Warrants" published by Dow-Jones Irwin.
Robert S. Roath, CPA
Chairman, Standard Parking Corp.; Board, InterDigital; Former CFO, RJR Nabisco
Richard A. Schrader
Former Chairman and CFO, Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc.; Former Chair, Financial Executives International;; Director, Ethics Compliance Initiative; Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
Robert M. Schmitz
Former EVP, CFO Flotek Industries; Former Chief Accounting Officer, Champion Technologies
William O. Strange, CPA
Retired audit partner, Deloitte & Touche, LLP; Director and Audit Committee Chair, Hyperdynamics Corporation; Director and Audit Committee Chair, Habitat for Humanity (Northwest Harris County)
Johnnie Williams, Ph.D.
Jesse H. Jones School of Business, Texas Southern University, Graduate Management Professor; Former Director of Asset-based Transactions, Enron Energy Services
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