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Who We Are

Our leadership team

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    Scott Bohannon President & Founder

    Scott created Bohannon Advisors in 2011 to help organizations better engage key audiences such as customers, employees, and members.

    In 2013, he expanded the firm's mission to help senior executives cost-effectively identify proven solutions to their most pressing challenges.

    Prior to founding Bohannon Advisors, Scott spent 12 years at the Corporate Executive Board, most recently leading the division responsible for services to over 4,000 senior executives in finance, strategy, innovation, and legal functions, as well as federal government executives. He also served as a member of the firm's Executive Committee. In his role, Scott worked daily with the senior most executives and Board members of the world's largest companies. Scott is a member of the Boards of Directors for two non-profit organizations: The Goyen Foundation and Wishes4MeNU.

    Scott has a BA in Public Policy from Centre College, and an M.A., J.D., and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

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    Robert Hughes Chief Information Officer

    Robert co-founded Bohannon Advisors and has overall responsibility for product and infrastructure strategy and development. Throughout the course of his career, Robert has overseen the infrastructure architecture and development for multiple enterprise level applications used by Global 500 companies.

    Prior to Bohannon Advisors, Robert was a senior director with the finance practice of the Corporate Executive Board in Washington, DC. He focused on the development of innovative services for Shared Services teams. Prior to the Corporate Executive Board, Robert co-founded the Executive Performance Group, a best practices research and analytics company.

Our advisory panel

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Mr. Anthony (Tony) Williams

Mr. Williams is the CEO of the Federal City Council, a Professor at Harvard University, and on the Board of Freddie Mac. He served as the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. He had previously served as chief financial officer for the District, managing to balance the budget and achieve a surplus within two years of appointment. Mr. Williams is widely admired for restoring the financial health of the nation's capital. He held a variety of executive posts in cities and states around the country prior to his service in the D.C. government. Mr. Williams has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, a J.D., from Harvard University, and an M.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Rear Admiral Nevin Carr (ret)

Nevin Carr recently completed a 34-year Navy career that included sea duty in eight ships, and operations in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian Gulf, North and South Atlantic, South Pacific, Baltic, Caribbean, Arctic and Red Seas. He commanded USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) and USS Cape St George (CG 71). His shore duty assignments included tours in Washington, working on programming and requirements for the Navy's ship combat systems, and ballistic missile defense systems. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (International Programs), he was responsible for building international partnerships through training, cooperative development, and Foreign Military Sales.

Nevin's capstone assignment was as Chief of Naval Research where he led 4,000 talented scientists and engineers in executing a $2B Science & Technology budget, and drove a research patent portfolio that was ranked #1 in the world among all government organizations.

Since retirement from active duty in January 2012, Nevin provides consulting services in the Washington area and has joined several boards. He also lectures and works with Notre Dame's Federal Relations Team, and is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford.

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Mrs. Nancy Heinen

Nancy is a Partner and member of the Board of Directors of SV2, the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, a partnership for giving. She also acts as a consultant to individual, start-ups, and non-profits. Between September 1997 and May 2006, Mrs. Heinen was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary for Apple Inc. Before Apple, she was the General Counsel at NeXT. Prior to NeXT she worked in the legal department of Tandem Computers and as an associate in several San Francisco Bay Area law firms. Mrs. Heinen is an Advisory Board Member at the Northern California Innocence Project and at Illuminate Ventures.

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Mr. Chris Cannon

Chris is a native of Cocoa, Florida, but he began his career in the securities industry in Richmond Virginia with one of the nation's oldest Wall Street mutual fund complexes. After returning to Florida in 1993, Chris joined an institutional equity-trading desk, eventually handling advanced issues such as arbitrage strategies and derivatives contracts. He then transitioned to private client and pension consulting specializing in portfolio design and management.

Chris has been quoted on various occasions in the financial press, appearing in Bloomberg Wealth Manager, Financial Advisor Magazine, and Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine.

Chris holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He is a member of the CFA Institute, a board member of the Orlando Society of Financial Analysts, and a Registered Financial Advisor in the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA). Chris has quickly risen to the role of Chief Investment Officer and became a partner in 2005. He additionally serves as the firm's Chief Compliance Officer, and as a member of the firm's Executive Committee.

Chris graduated from Centre College in Danville Kentucky with a B.A. in Economics and Government.

Testimonials

"Across my 20 year career founding and owning the Corporate Executive Board, I've worked with just under 6,000 young professionals - the top 20% of the class from the nation's top ten to twenty universities. As to original insight and astonishing force of creativity, I've not known Scott Bohannon's equal. Sitting at a table with the best minds in the firm, Scott will see paths and answers and strategies that the rest missed. Equally, Scott is a masterful teacher - a superior speaker and discussion leader. As to learning and teaching, Scott sets the standard. It's a privilege to work by his side."

David Bradley, Chairman of Atlantic Media

"We overhauled our capital budgeting projecting process using the framework Scott provided us. That reallocated how we spend nearly a billion pounds a year, getting those pounds invested in true growth bets. For time in a more than a decade, our non-acquisition capital expenditures are generating real earnings growth above our competitors and the economy."

Chief Strategist, Global 100 Company

"Wow! Great primer on social media that is actionable and provides guardrails in this new world. Wish others could have heard Scott's fabulous presentation first hand."

Head of Government Affairs, Global 50 Company

"An intellectual Godzilla. Scott Bohannon is gifted at engaging the brightest minds to extract -- for their benefit and for others' -- their most compelling ideas and insights. He is brilliant at guiding discussion of complex issues toward solutions and next steps, even across large groups. He also has the rarest combination of traits: brilliance and humility. Scott Bohannon is one of the most insightful, caring, thought provoking, and capable people I have known."

Adm. Nevin Carr (ret), Former Head of the Office of Naval Research

"As General Counsel of a large and complex organisation [in my case, Telstra - Australia's incumbent Telco] you are always on the look-out for bright and insightful people who can give you actionable information to manage risks - especially emerging ones - and keep you and your team at the forefront of technology to work smarter and be the best trusted advisors possible. Scott is one of the few people I found globally over a decade who really "gets it" and in both breadth and depth, added value by combining a wide field of view and relationships across many organisations, withdetailed analysis of what works and why - and then helps leaders make change exciting and fun when it comes to implementation."

Will Irving, Group Managing Director, Telstra Business

"Over the last five years, I have had the opportunity to interact with Scott. From a routine presentation at a Corporate Executive Board meeting, Scott has now become one of my key go-to guys for his counsel on any business topic, globally. His genuine interest in your affairs, to his knowledge of what is happening globally, and his affable style and keen interest to be helpful under any situation - makes Scott one of a kind. I know I can call Scott at the middle of night and he would not mind. Frankly, we all aspire to be "Scott" but most of us fail to even come close to him.

Beyond, why I like Scott, what makes Scott tick is his ability to connect the dots like few can; he is an avid networker - this comes to him naturally, can assimilate diverse data in complex environments, and distill 2-3 key insights that make the "ah moment"!

It is a privilege to have known him and work alongside Scott. I would whole-heartedly endorse Scott for any business problem, anywhere in the world. I can say that for only a few people, I have known and met in the last 30 years of having worked across the globe."

Vivek Rai Gupta, Senior Advisor to the Chairman, Reliance Industries, India

"I have known Scott as an outstanding professional and a delightful person, and I deeply cherish my relationship with him, which has continued to grow over the years. His perspectives on organizational strategy, innovation and emerging business models are simply awesome. He has been a great source of insight and advise for me in my role as head of strategy for a global enterprise and now as an innovation centric business leader.

Sanjay Purohit, Global Head - Products, Platforms & Solutions, Infosys Ltd., Bangalore