Thomas L. Monahan III



Thomas L. Monahan III is chief executive officer (CEO) and president of DeVry University, a for-profit higher education institution. He previously was CEO of CEB, which was acquired by Gartner, before resigning in 2017. He is chairman of ProKarma and a board member of Transunion.

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

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

Monahan joined the leadership team of CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board) in 1996. He was named its chief executive in 2005 and chairman in 2008. He presided over an expansion of revenue, which increased 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 2017.

Monahan is chairman of ProKarma and a 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 from Duke University and received an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Marcil is the North America regional chair at the Boston Consulting Group.