Primary Job Title Chief Executive Officer Primary Organization Stewart Consulting
Location Greater New York Area, United States, North America Regions East Coast Gender Male
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Bennett Stewart, chairman and chief executive, was a co-founder in 1982 of Stern Stewart & Co., the global consulting firm that pioneered the development and corporate applications of EVA. He was the principal creator of the EVA framework. He formed EVA Dimensions in 2006 to acquire the EVA brand and related technologies from Stern Stewart to
provide services in the fields of financial benchmark data, performance management and valuation software, and investment research and funds management.
Bennett is the author of The Quest for Value, which is regarded as the definitive guide to EVA. He has also written numerous articles on corporate financial management and valuation for publications such as the Harvard Business Review (“Pension Roulette,” “Reform Governance From Within”) and the Morgan Stanley Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (“EVA – Myths and Misconceptions,” “How to fix Accounting: Measure and Reward Economic Profit”). He has lectured widely and frequently garners the top rating among conference speakers.
A cum laude graduate of Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering (1974), he also holds an MBA degree (1976) from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He serves as a member (and former chairman) of the Alumni Advisory Council for Princeton’s Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, is a member of the Advisory Board for the Morgan Stanley Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and is a director and member of the audit and compensation committees of ITC Holdings (NYSE:ITC), the nation’s largest independent electric distribution company.
