Usman has frequently developed board and executive agendas and been responsible for implementation of board-driven strategies. As a consultant, he has served global leaders across six continents, acquiring a reputation for developing high-performance governance standards and building semior executive and technology teams that consistently achieved dramatic results.

Mr. Ghani is a Fortune 100 executive distinguished by his record of developing powerful board policies and business strategies for a variety of industry leaders, including McKinsey & Company, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Exxon Mobil Corporation, and Electronic Data Systems. He has served key leadership roles in executive education, information technology, marketing, operations, organization development, and strategic planning, as well as led cross-functional, multi-cultural core business process teams.

Usman holds three Masters Degrees from MIT: Business Administration, Management of Technology, and Policy Planning from the MIT/Harvard joint program. He is a Visiting Professor of Enterprise Transformation and Strategy at The University of Texas at Dallas and the author of the forthcoming book on Dynamic Governance.

A Benjamin Franklin Fellow in Paris, he is also listed in the Who's Who Worldwide.