A member of Sapient’s Board since 1995, Darius Gaskins has served as Board Chairman and Governance and Nominating Committee chair since 2008.  He is also a founding partner of Brigadier Consulting Group, LLC, a transportation and energy industries consultancy.  

Gaskins currently serves as Chairman of the Energy Policy and Research Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization that studies energy economics, and formerly served as a director of Burlington Northern, Inc., R.H. Donnelley Corporation and several other organizations. He was 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.

Gaskin earned a Master’s degree in Astronautical and Instrumentation Engineering and doctorate in Economics from the University of Michigan, and was a distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy.

Hermann Buerger has been a member of Sapient’s Board and Chairman of its Audit Committee since June 2006.  He also currently 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 Chief Executive Officer and regional board member for the 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 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 is a trustee with 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 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

Jerry Greenberg co-founded Sapient in 1991, and served as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the company until 2006.  He rejoined the company’s Board as a non-independent Director in October 2010.

Greenberg and J. Stuart Moore started Sapient to pioneer a fundamentally different approach to business and technology consulting. This approach delivered business and advanced technology solutions that resulted in high-value, measurable business results — on time and on budget. During his tenure with the company, Greenberg was at the forefront of many noteworthy changes in the industry that have affected the way businesses and consumers engage with each other.  Greenberg led Sapient during the emergence of the Internet and e-commerce and guided the company through a number of acquisitions, beginning in 1998, that laid the foundation for the fusion of deep technology skills and rich creativity that characterizes much of the company’s work for clients today.    Along with Moore, Greenberg was also instrumental in developing Sapient’s vision and values and the company’s unique approach to achieving dramatic results for clients.

Since leaving the company in 2006, Greenberg has been part of the founding of three privately held companies, two in which he serves as a strategic adviser and one as chief executive officer.  Additionally, from 2006 to 2010, Greenberg acted as an adviser to the company under a consulting arrangement, which was terminated upon his October 2010 reappointment to the board.

Greenberg graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics.

 

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.

Robert Rosen has been a member of Sapient’s Board since February 2012.  He also serves on the board of directors of Ares Capital Corporation, a private debt group, and as Operating Partner of Ares Capital Management, a $50 billion diversified asset management company.  Rosen currently is a Managing Partner to RLR Capital Partners, LP, which invests in the securities of publicly traded North American companies.

From 2005 to 2008, Rosen was a Managing Partner of RLR Focus Fund LP, an “active value” hedge fund.  In 1998, Rosen founded National Financial Partners, an independent provider of financial services to high net worth individuals and small to medium-sized corporations.  He served as NFP’s Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2000 and as its Chairman until 2002.  He also provided exclusive consulting services to Apollo Management, L.P. from 1995 to 2001.  From 1989 to 1993, Rosen was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Damon Corporation, a leading healthcare and laboratory testing company that was ultimately sold to Quest Diagnostics.

Rosen is a member of the Board of Overseers of NYU’s Stern School of Business.  Rosen received an undergraduate degree from City University of New York and an MBA in Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Ashok Shah has been a member of Sapient’s Board since June 2008.  Until March 2008, he 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, and is a member of the Executive Advisory Council for the College of Business Administration at Rider University in New Jersey.

Vijay Singal has been a member of Sapient’s Board since June 2008. He is a J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, where he served as the Department Head of Finance from 2003 to 2009. He served on the Board of Trustees and Audit Committee of New River Funds, a family of mutual funds, from 2003 to 2008.  

Singal 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 authored a book, Beyond the Random Walk, published and reissued in paperback by Oxford University Press. Additionally, he provides consulting services based on his academic research, which has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, among others.

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 foreign currency syndicated loans, managing foreign exchange risk, and negotiating contracts with shipyards in Norway, Singapore, France and Japan.

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.