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Paul Maleh, who joined us in 1989, has served as our president and chief executive officer and as a director since November 2009, and became chairman of our board of directors in July 2020. Mr. Maleh served as our chief operating officer from October 2008 through November 2009, and as our executive vice president from October 2006 to November 2009. Mr. Maleh has also served as a board member of KIPP Massachusetts, a non-profit charter school since September 2022. From December 2006 to January 2009, he served as head of our finance platform. Mr. Maleh also directed our finance practice from 2000 to December 2006 and served as a vice president from 1999 to October 2006. Mr. Maleh received his M.B.A. from Northeastern University.

Jonathan Yellin has served as our executive vice president and general counsel since March 2017. Mr. Yellin has been a member of our senior management since 2004, when he joined us as vice president and general counsel. Prior to joining us, Mr. Yellin was a senior partner in the Insolvency and Restructuring practice at Riemer & Braunstein LLP, from 1999 to 2004. Mr. Yellin received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 1988 and his B.A. from The George Washington University, School of Public and International Affairs, in 1985.

Brian Langan has served as our executive vice president and chief strategy and business transformation officer since August 2025. Mr. Langan previously served as vice president in the Company's Competition and Labor & Employment group from March 2019 through August 2025, as a manager in the Company's Financial Planning & Analysis group, and in a number of roles supporting the Company's senior management team. He joined the Company in 2002 as a consultant in the Antitrust & Competition Economics Practice. Mr. Langan holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.B.A. from Boston College.

Eric Nierenberg has served as our executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer since August 2025. Dr. Nierenberg joined the Company's senior management team as a vice president in 2023. From 2017 to 2022, he served as Chief Strategy Officer for MassPRIM, the Massachusetts state pension fund. Prior to that, he was an equity portfolio manager at LMCG Investments and Independence Investments. Dr. Nierenberg is a Board member of investment funds dedicated to the Hydro-Quebec Pension Fund. He also is an adjunct professor of finance at the International Business School of Brandeis University. He started his career as an analyst in the Company's Finance Practice. Dr. Nierenberg holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics, as well as a Ph.D. in business economics, all from Harvard University.

William Concannon has served as a director since June 2000 and as our lead director since July 2020. Mr. Concannon served as the chief executive officer of Global Workplace Solutions of CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), a publicly traded global commercial real estate firm (CBRE), from September 2015 until his retirement in April 2024. Prior to September 2015, Mr. Concannon was the chief executive officer of Global Corporate Services of CBRE. From December 2021 to February 2024, he also served on the board of directors of Altus Power (NYSE: AMPS), a publicly traded solar energy company. Prior to his roles at CBRE, Mr. Concannon served as an executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Trammell Crow Company (TCC), a diversified commercial real estate firm, until TCC's acquisition by CBRE in 2006. Mr. Concannon was the first real estate professional inducted into the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' Outsourcing Hall of Fame. Mr. Concannon received his B.S. in accounting from Providence College in 1977, where he currently serves on the board of trustees, a position he previously held from 2002 until 2010. On March 27, 2026, William Concannon informed the board of directors of the Company that he will be retiring as a director of the Board effective as of the adjournment of the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders which is scheduled for July 16, 2026.

Richard Booth has served as a director since March 2020. From March 2021 to June 2025 he served as chief financial officer of Definitive Healthcare Corp. (Nasdaq: DH), a data analytics company. From April 2015 to March 2021, Mr. Booth served as chief financial officer of Bottomline Technologies, Inc., a financial technology company. From January 2014 to March 2015, Mr. Booth served as vice president of finance and corporate controller at Sapient Corporation. Previously, he held a number of senior finance positions of increasing responsibility at Nuance Communications (Nasdaq: NUAN), a publicly traded software and services firm. Prior to his tenure at Nuance, Mr. Booth held a variety of executive roles at EMC Corporation, Mercer Management Consulting, and Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Booth is a licensed CPA, and holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, an M.S. in Taxation from Bentley University, an M.S. in Organizational Development from American University, and a B.S. in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University. Our board benefits greatly from Mr. Booth's extensive accounting and finance expertise, his knowledge of the consulting and technology industries, and his perspective gained from having served as a business executive and chief financial officer.

Heather Tookes, Ph.D., has served as a director since December 2022. Dr. Tookes currently serves as a finance professor at the Yale School of Management, a leader in business education, and has been on the faculty of the Yale School of Management since 2004. Dr. Tookes also currently serves on the boards of Dimensional Funds (DFA Investment Dimensions Group Inc., Dimensional Investment Group Inc., DFA Investment Trust Company, Dimensional Emerging Markets Value Fund, and Dimensional ETF Trust, each of which is a registered investment company), a shareholder of the Company, and Ariel Investments LLC, a registered investment advisor. Since January 2022, Dr. Tookes has served as a director of the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven. From June 2021 to March 2023, Dr. Tookes served as a director of Payoneer Global Inc. (Nasdaq: PAYO), a financial services company. Dr. Tookes has a B.A. in Economics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Management (Finance) from Cornell University.

Christine Detrick has served as a director since May 2020. From 2002 to 2012, Ms. Detrick served as a director/partner of Bain & Company (Bain), as leader of the financial services practice for the Americas, and a senior advisor. Before joining Bain, she served for 10 years at A.T. Kearney, Inc., including as global leader of the Financial Institutions Group, leader of the Eastern U.S., and as a member of the board of management and board of directors. Prior to those roles, she was one of the founding partners of First Financial Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in savings and loan institutions, from 1988 to 1992, and served as the chief executive officer of the St. Louis Bank for Savings. Ms. Detrick also serves on the board of directors of Hartford Mutual Funds, a mutual fund company, including as chair of the board of directors and a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee. Ms. Detrick also serves on the board of directors of Capital One (NYSE: COF), a publicly traded financial institution, serving on the audit and risk committees. From December 2021 to April 2025, Ms. Detrick served on the board of directors of Altus Power (NYSE: AMPS), a publicly traded solar energy company, serving as chair of the board of directors and a member of the executive and nominating and governance committees. Ms. Detrick also served on the board of directors of Reinsurance Group of America (NYSE: RGA), a publicly traded reinsurance company, serving as chair of the nominating and governance committee and a member of the compensation and technology and cyber committees from 2014 to 2022. From 2015 to 2018, Ms. Detrick served on the board of directors of Forest City Realty Trust (NYSE:FCE-A), a publicly traded real estate investment trust, as chairman of the compensation committee and a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee. Ms. Detrick received her B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.

Alva Taylor, Ph.D., has served as a director since August 2022. Dr. Taylor has been a professor since 2000, the faculty director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College since 2013, and the Senior Associate Dean of Executive Learning since 2025. Dr. Taylor is Dean of all of Tuck's learning programs focused on applying Tuck's educational thought leadership to help executives and companies increase their performance and success. The Center for Digital Strategies helps business leaders understand how changes in digital technology impact business strategy and corporate decision making. Dr. Taylor has been recognized for his research in the areas of innovation processes, entrepreneurship, technological change, and strategic decision making in fast-changing environments. His recent work explores the challenges of managing creative groups for sustained innovation and entrepreneurship, and how organizational learning takes place in information-rich environments. He teaches courses on strategy, innovation, and change management in Tuck's flagship MBA, Executive Education, and Master's in Health Care Delivery Science programs. Dr. Taylor has also served as a board member of the Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, New Hampshire, since September 2022. Dr. Taylor earned his B.S. and M.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and his M.B.A. from Cornell University, and earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Thomas Avery has served as a director since February 2016. Mr. Avery served as a managing director at Raymond James & Associates from August 2000 to December 2014. Prior to joining Raymond James, Mr. Avery was head of the investment banking group and co-head of the equity capital markets division at Interstate/Johnson-Lane from 1995 to 2000, a general partner at Noro-Moseley Partners from 1989 to 1995, and a general partner at Summit Partners from 1984 to 1989. From 1977 to 1984, Mr. Avery served as senior vice president of The Robinson-Humphrey Company. Mr. Avery has served on the board of directors of ArborGen Inc., a biotechnology tree seedling company, since July 2018. He also serves on the advisory board for the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institution of Technology, and serves as a director of KIPP Metro Atlanta, a charter school organization serving low-income, minority children in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as PowerUp, a 501(c)(3) organization also serving low-income, minority children in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Avery served on the board of directors of Cicero, Inc. from July 2015 to 2020. Mr. Avery has a B.S. in industrial management from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Karen Keenan has served as a director since January 2024. Ms. Keenan's 35-year career in financial services has included leadership roles in finance and controls, risk management, regulatory compliance, and business management. Ms. Keenan previously worked at State Street Corporation for 13 years, rising through the bank's Global Markets Division, which provides investment research and trading services to institutional investors. From 2016 until her retirement in 2020, she served as State Street's Chief Administrative Officer. Before joining State Street, she served as Chief Financial Officer for Investors Financial Services Corporation for six years. Ms. Keenan is a CPA and since 2020 has served as an independent director on the board of CLS Group Holdings AG, which provides foreign exchange settlement services to member banks. Ms. Keenan has a B.S. in accountancy from Bentley University and an M.B.A. in finance from Babson College. Our board of directors has determined that Ms. Keenan is an audit committee financial expert under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

On July 16, 2025, the Board of Directors of CRA International, Inc. promoted Sandra David, currently the Company's Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller, as the Company's principal accounting officer effective on August 4, 2025. Ms. David has served as the Company's Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller since March 2023. She joined the Company in 2016 as part of the GL Accounting & SEC Reporting team. She has more than 25 years of public accounting and public company experience. Throughout her career at the Company, Ms. David has played important roles in integrating team hires, improving processes, and implementing new software. She has a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester and an MS in Accounting from Bentley University. No material plans, contracts or arrangements were entered into with Ms. David in connection with her designation as principal accounting officer.