Darius W. Gaskins Jr.
Board Chairman and Governance and Nominating Committee Chairman

Darius Gaskins has served on the Board since 1995, and is now Chairman of the Governance and Nominating Committee. He is a founding partner of Norbridge, Inc., a management consulting firm.

Gaskins formerly served as a Director of Burlington Northern, Inc., R.H. Donnelley Corporation and several other organizations.

He was the President and Chief Executive Officer at Burlington Northern Railroad and Senior Vice President for Natomas North America. His record of public service includes past service as Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Policy Analysis at the U.S. Department of Energy.
 
Gaskins earned a Master’s degree in Astronautical and Instrumentation Engineering and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan.


Hermann Buerger
Audit Committee Chairman

Hermann Buerger has been a member of Sapient’s Board and Chairman of its Audit Committee since June 2006.  He also serves on the Board for EMS Technologies, Inc.

Buerger was formerly a Director at Paging Network, Inc., Ptek Holdings, Inc. (now Premier Global Services), Security Capital Group Incorporated and United Dominion Industries.

The bulk of Buerger’s career was spent at Commerzbank AG, where he rose to the position of Regional Board Member and CEO of Americas.

He has also served as a Trustee at the Virginia Tech Foundation and Co-Chairman of the Business Executive Council—the American Council of Germany. In addition, he has been a member of the International Advisory Council—Bankers’ Association of Foreign Trade Unibanco—San Paulo, Brazil, and has served as Vice Chairman of the Institute of International Bankers and a member of the Advisory Board at the Wharton Real Estate Center.

Buerger earned a BA in Economics and an MBA from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A US citizen, he was born in Germany and served in the US Army.


Jim Benson
Risk Committee Chairman

Jim Benson has been a member of Sapient’s Board since August 2007.  He also serves on several other Boards, including the University of Illinois Foundation and The American College Endowment Foundation.

Benson is the Chief Executive Officer of Clark Benson LLC (“Clark Benson”), a position he has held since January 2006, and a principal of its parent company, Clark Wamberg, LLC, a position he has held since the company’s formation in February 2007.  Mr. Benson served as a director of Clark, Inc., the former parent company of Clark Benson, from January 2006 until March 12, 2007.

Prior to joining Clark Benson, Mr. Benson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of John Hancock Life Insurance Company, a division of Manulife Financial, from 2002 to 2006.  From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Benson served as President of MetLife’s Individual Business enterprise, as well as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of two separate MetLife affiliates: New England Financial, and GenAmerica Financial Corporation.

Benson earned a BA in economics from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
 

Alan J. Herrick

Since October 2006, Alan Herrick has served as President and CEO of Sapient and as a member of its Board of Directors.
 
Prior to his current position, Herrick served as Executive Vice President in charge of Sapient North America and Europe. In that role, he headed three of the company’s four business units and was responsible for 90 percent of its revenues.
 
Herrick joined Sapient in 1995 and was instrumental in top- and bottom-line growth for the company’s highly successful trading and risk management and energy services businesses. He was instrumental in building Sapient Europe, as well.
 
Prior to joining Sapient, Herrick held management positions at PSE&G, Prudential, and Home Holdings (now part of Zurich). He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Rhode Island.
 

J. Stuart Moore

Stuart Moore co-founded Sapient in 1991, and served as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the company until June 2006. Since then, he has continued to serve as a member of Sapient’s Board of Directors.

Moore and Jerry A. Greenberg started Sapient to pioneer a fundamentally different approach to business and technology consulting. This approach delivers business and advanced technology solutions that result in high-value, measurable business results — on time and on budget.

He worked with clients to establish relationships and grow business, and helped set the company's overall strategy. Moore was also instrumental in developing Sapient’s vision and values and the company’s unique approach to achieving dramatic results for clients.

Moore graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science.


Bruce D. Parker
Compensation Committee Chairman

Bruce Parker has been a member of Sapient’s Board since 1995. He is also on the Board of AirNet Systems Inc., a specialized express cargo airline, where he serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Parker is also the Managing Partner of the IT Management Group LLC, a consulting company. From December 1999 until his retirement in July 2002, Parker was an Executive Vice President at Sapient, responsible for corporate development, international growth, subsidiaries and relationships with multiple large clients.

Parker previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at United Airlines. Under his direction, the company introduced United.com. During his tenure, he also created and organized several joint ventures in distribution, including Orbitz, and participated in forming the Star Alliance technology organization.

From 1994 to 1997, Parker was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Ryder System Inc. and, previously, was a Vice President of American Airlines and Sabre Computer Services. He holds an MBA from the University of Kansas.


Ashok Shah

Until March 2008, Ashok Shah served as vice president and managing partner of the global professional business division of Alcatel-Lucent. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent in Nov.2003, he held various management positions with Digital Equipment Corp., Compaq Computer Corporation and Hewlett-Packard, including general manager of IT services; subsidiary manager of IT Services; India country manager for the software division; Asia Pacific manager for the systems integration division; and vice president of the professional services division for North America at Compaq.

Currently, Shah is the founder and managing partner of CEPS Consulting, LLC, which provides strategic counsel to IT/telecom services and software firms as well as enterprise clients. He also serves on the engineering leadership board at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering.


Vijay Singal

Vijay Singal currently heads the department of finance at Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is the author of the 2006 book, Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies and Low-Risk Investing.

Since 2002, he has served as a J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance at the University. Earlier, he held various other academic positions there, joining in 1992. Prior to entering academia, Singal spent ten years at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in India, holding various positions, finally as a joint director of finance.

Since 2003, Singal has served as a member of the board of trustees and audit committee of New River Funds. Since 2005, he has also served as a consultant and partner to a New Jersey-based securities trading company.