Kathleen T. McGahran, Managing Director
7 Warren Road
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520

ktmcg@aol.com
or PelhamA@aol.com

Summary:

Dr. McGahran is the President of Pelham Associates, a management education provider and consulting firm.  As an adjunct professor of business administration at the Tuck School, she provides the finance and accounting training for the Tuck-WBENC Executive Program (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council). 

She holds a PhD in accounting and finance, a CPA from the state of Michigan, and a JD from Fordham University’s School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey.

She has taught at the graduate schools of business at New York University- Stern School of Business, Columbia University, The University of Michigan, Stanford University, and INSEAD in France. In addition to her teaching, she has written and published several articles and cases on the use of accounting information. She has also co-authored a textbook entitled Accounting: A Management Approach with Gordon Shillinglaw.

Dr. McGahran has designed and implemented financial analyst training programs for Lazard Frères & Co., Ernst & Young, Bear Stearns, Sun-Trust Banks, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, Bankers Trust, Dean Witter Reynolds, First Boston, JP Morgan, and Merrill Lynch.

She has also designed and implemented executive education programs for Columbia University, the Institute for Management Studies, Selective Insurance Group, Chubb Insurance, MassMutual, the Stern School of Business, 3M Company, The Coca-Cola Company, Eastman Kodak, Avon Products, General Electric Company, Am-Re Managers, Equitable Life, Travelers, Aetna Life Insurance, and the Financial Women’s Association.

Kathleen serves on the Board of Directors for Adams Express Company (ADX) and Petroleum and Resources Corporation (PEO), both companies are closed-end funds.  She also serves on the Boards of SCOR Reinsurance Company of New York (P&C) and Scor Global Life Reinsurance U.S. (both companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of SCOR, Paris, France).

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

1989 - Present  
Pelham Associates, Inc., President and CEO
 A Management Consulting Company and Executive Education Provider (www.pelhamA.com)

1993-1996   
Columbia University Business School
Associate Dean, Director of Executive Education
Board of Advisors, Columbia Business School

CONSULTING

Expert Witness: 
In re: Cendant Corporation Securities Litigation in the United States       District Court of New Jersey.  Hired by Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP.

Analyst Training Programs: 
Lazard Frères & Co., Ernst & Young, Bear Stearns, SunTrust Bank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, C. S. First Boston, J.P. Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch.

Executive Education Programs: 
Tuck School of Business, Stern School of Business, Columbia University's Executive Programs, Chubb Insurance, Mass Mutual, Travelers, Aetna, Altria, Wyeth, Roche, Financial Women’s Association, The 3M Company, The Coca-Cola Company, Eastman Kodak, Institute for Management Studies, Avon Products, General Electric Company, Women Presidents Organization.

Topics include:
Executive Coaching, International Financial Statement Analysis, Economic Value Added, Corporate Finance, Valuation, Mergers, Acquisitions, And Reorganizations, Financial Accounting Regulations (SEC, FASB, AICPA, NAIC).

TEACHING POSITIONS 

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 2004 - Present
Tuck School of Business, Adjunct Professor

Columbia Business School, Columbia University, 1986 - 2008
Graduate School of Business, Executive Education, 1987-2008
Graduate School of Business, Associate Professor, 1986-1996

New York University, New York, New York, 197 -1982, 1997–2000, 2002, 2004, 2009 Stern School of Business, Accounting and Finance Department

INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), 1989
International Graduate School of Business, Visiting Professor
           
Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1983 - 1986
Graduate School of Business, Visiting Assistant Professor
           
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1982 - 1983
Graduate School of Business Administration, Assistant Professor
           
Iona College, New Rochelle, New York, l973 - l977
School of Business Administration, Assistant to the Dean
Instructor, Finance Department

EDUCATION

Fordham University, New York, New York, J.D.
New York University, New York, New York, Ph.D., M.Phil. Accounting & Finance
Iona College, New Rochelle, New York, M.B.A.   Economics
Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, B.A.  Economics

TEXTBOOK

Accounting:  A Management Approach, with G.Shillinglaw (Irwin Publishers), 1993.

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES & BOARD POSITIONS
 C.P.A. 1984 – present,  State of Michigan
J.D. 1999 – present,  Member of New York and New Jersey Bar

Member of the Board of Directors, certified audit committee expert, executive committee member of two NYSE Companies:  Adams Express (ADX) and Petroleum & Resources Corporation (PEO). 
Member of the Board of Directors, Scor Reinsurance of New York