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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On February 17, 2023, the Board of Directors of Huron Consulting Group Inc. (the “Company”) approved the appointment of Kyle D. Featherstone to serve as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer. In this capacity, Mr. Featherstone will serve as the Company’s principal accounting officer and will continue to serve as a Corporate Vice President of the Company.
Mr. Featherstone, age 42, most recently served as Corporate Vice President and Controller of the Company from June 2020 to February 2023. Previously, he served as Assistant Controller of the Company from September 2017 to June 2020 and Director of External Reporting and Technical Accounting from January 2014 to September 2017. Mr. Featherstone joined the Company in November 2006 in the Company's Disputes and Investigations consulting practice and joined the Company's corporate Finance and Accounting department in December 2009. Mr. Featherstone received a B.S. in Accountancy and an M.S. in Taxation both from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a Certified Public Accountant (Illinois).
There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Featherstone and any other persons pursuant to which he was selected as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer and principal accounting officer. There is no family relationship existing between Mr. Featherstone and any executive officer or director of the Company, and there are no related party transactions between the Company and Mr. Featherstone that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Huron Consulting Group Inc. | |||||||||||
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| Date: | February 24, 2023 | /s/ JOHN D. KELLY | |||||||||
| John D. Kelly | |||||||||||
| Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer | |||||||||||