Booz Allen CFO elected to Moody’s board

Lloyd W. Howell Jr.'s board term to start March 15, 2021

Published December 21, 2020 by Sydney Lake

Financial services company Moody’s Corp. announced Friday that Lloyd W. Howell Jr., executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of McLean-based Fortune 500 global management consulting company Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., has been elected to Moody’s board, effective March 15, 2021.

Howell will join the board’s audit, compensation and human resources and governance and nominating committees.

“Lloyd’s financial expertise and extensive experience working with government and commercial clients will bring invaluable perspective to Moody’s,” Moody’s Chairman Henry McKinnell Jr. said in a statement. “We are pleased to welcome him to the board.”

Howell joined Booz Allen in 1988 and led the company’s civil and commercial business from 2013 to 2016, was executive vice president of client services from 2009 to 2013 and was vice president of strategy and organization from 2000 to 2009. He earned his master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and is also a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the board of overseers for the university’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Moody’s employs more than 11,400 people across 40 countries and provides financial market services. Booz Allen has 27,173 employees, with 10,245 in Virginia.