Thomas L. Monahan III

Thomas L. Monahan III is Chief Executive Officer and President of DeVry University, a for-profit higher education institution. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of CEB Inc., which was acquired by Gartner, before resigning in 2017. He also serves as chairman of ProKarma Inc. and board member of Transunion.

Early Life and Education
He holds degrees from Harvard University and New York University Stern School of Business.

Career
Prior to 1996, Monahan served as a senior consultant for the Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, a director at the Committee for Economic Development, and a staff consultant at Andersen Consulting.

Monahan joined the CEB Inc. (formerly Corporate Executive Board) leadership team in 1996 and was named its chief executive in 2005 and chairman in 2008. He presided over an expansion of revenue, increasing 157% from 2005 to 2016. During his term, CEB acquired Evanta Ventures, a Portland-based best practice insight and technology company. CEB was acquired by Gartner in 2017 for $2.6 billion. He stepped down from CEB Inc. in June of 2017.

Monahan serves as chairman of ProKarma Inc. and board member of Transunion. In August, 2020, he was appointed president and CEO of DeVry University.

He has contributed several articles on business topics, including for CNBC, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review.   He authored a column in The Washington Post called “Talent Matters."

Personal Life
Monahan is married to Sharon Kerrie Marcil, who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and received an M.B.A. from Harvard University.