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.

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.

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.

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.

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 is currently the J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. He is an accomplished teacher and researcher with numerous articles in the top Finance journals on a wide variety of topics including mergers, corporate governance, pricing and market power, executive compensation, index changes, short selling, currency risk management, and market efficiency. He is also the author of a book, Beyond the Random Walk, which has been reissued in paperback by Oxford University Press.  His research has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, among others.  He was the department head of finance from 2003 to 2009.  

Prior to entering academia, Singal worked for ten years at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in India, holding various positions, finally as a joint director of finance.  Some of his responsibilities included negotiating major contracts with shipyards in Norway, Singapore, France and Japan, negotiating and managing foreign currency loans, and optimizing insurance coverage for major assets of the company. 

Singal graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, with a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, with an MBA in Finance, and with a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Michigan.