Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is Chairman of the Education Specialty Practice for Korn/Ferry International, based in Washington, DC. In this role, Mr. Trachtenberg leverages his decades of higher education experience to work with search committees and boards of the country's most respected institutions to identify, recruit and develop leadership talent.

Gerald B. Kauvar is a senior consultant in the Korn/Ferry International's Education Speciality Practice.  His office is in Washington DC.  He has been an administrator and faculty member at the Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago Circle, The City College of New York, Boston Univeristy, and The George Washington Univeristy.