Mary Graham Davis '65

2006–2009

Mary Graham Davis is the founder of the Davis Consulting Group, LLC. The firm focuses on the implementation of strategy through the effective organization structure, i.e., the alignment of business units with strategy, business unit mobilization to achieve annual operating plan objectives, and senior leadership coaching. Post-merger integration activities are a special area of interest. Mary's client roster is primarily in the financial services, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications industries.

Mary's career began at Citicorp's overseas equity investment subsidiary Edge Act. After relocating to Sydney, Australia, with her husband, she became a merchant banking partner with van Heyst and Company. Back in the United States, she founded her own management consulting business focusing on strategic planning and corporate finance. In 1985 she joined Jannotta, Bray and Associates to focus on senior executive coaching, corporate restructuring, and change implementation. There, she served as the vice chairman of Jannotta, Bray and Associates, head of the Jannotta Consulting Group, and managing principal of their New York Metropolitan Area operating group. After Right Management Consulting, Inc. acquired Jannotta Bray, Mary was named managing vice president for People Tech, a division of Right Management Consulting, Inc. (a NASDAQ firm). There she consulted to U.S.-based and global organizations implementing change resulting from restructurings, high growth opportunities, or leadership transitions.

She is currently President of the Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College and sits on the Advisory Board of Odyssey Venture Partners, Newport Beach, CA (1999- ). Prior board work includes: Board of Trustees of Mount Holyoke College 1995-2004; Graham-Windham Services to Families and Children, New York (1973-1982, President 1980-1982); Board of Education, Winnetka Public Schools, Winnetka, Illinois (1985-1989); and Jannotta, Bray and Associates, Inc (1989-1994).

She received her A.B. from Mount Holyoke College and a master's degree in international economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy/Harvard and Tufts Universities.