
When Arthur Andersen unraveled, Gary E. Holdren helped turn a group of displaced consultants into Huron. The company grew quickly; its accounting crisis and his later investment career make the story more complicated than a founding legend.

A chemistry graduate became a chartered accountant, learned transactions at Arthur Andersen, spent 15 years inside GE and arrived at Cisco in 2016. Today, Girish Parekh works where forecasts, new business models and a global sales organization must agree.