Company: CRAI
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-039429
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Company: CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 executive officers are elected by, and serve at the discretion of, our board of directors. There are no family relationships among our directors and executive officers. Backgrounds and qualifications of directors Below we have identified each of our directors by class. In addition, for each director we have included information regarding the director’s business experience, as well as the director’s particular experiences, qualifications, attributes and skills that led our board of directors to conclude that the director should serve as a member of our board of directors. Directors serving a term expiring at the 2025 annual meeting (Class III directors) 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. As our chief executive officer, Mr. Maleh brings to our board of directors valuable leadership experience and a deep and thorough understanding of our business and operations, the day-to-day management of our business, and our industry as a whole. 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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 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