H. Stephen Grace, Ph.D. is president and founder of H.S. Grace & Company, Inc., a firm which provides specialized financial and operational advisory services to healthy and troubled companies, assists in complex commercial litigation, and advises on issues of corporate governance, oversight, and control. Grace’s more than 40 years of senior management, consultant, and academic experience includes senior executive and board responsibilities of a major real estate development company; national director-at-large of a Big Five firm, and university faculty member. He has authored and co-authored a substantial number of economic and financial publications, many of which focus on corporate governance and issues of business conduct.