Simon Allen was named CEO in 2019 and joined the Board in 2020. Previously Mr. Allen served as President of the company’s Higher Ed and International business units. He rejoined McGraw Hill in March 2018. Mr. Allen has deep experience in educational publishing having led large teams across six continents focused on K-12 and higher education, as well as science, technical and medical digital and print products for professional, governmental and institutional markets.

Before joining McGraw Hill, Mr. Allen was the CEO of Macmillan Education, leading the company’s transition from print to blended learning products and solutions. Previously, he was Senior Vice President, International at The McGraw Hill Companies and during that time was elected President of The Publishers Association in the U.K., serving for three years on its council. Before that, Mr. Allen was President, Higher Education at both Pearson Education EMEA and Prentice Hall Europe. Earlier in his career, Mr. Allen held sales leadership roles with the Times Mirror Group in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.

Mr. Allen received his BA with honors from Middlesex University School of Business and completed Executive Education programs in Leadership and Strategic Management at the London Business School.

Larry Berg has been the Chairman of the Board of McGraw-Hill Education since March 2014 and has been a Director since March 2013. Mr. Berg is a Senior Partner at Apollo having joined in 1992, and oversees the Firm’s efforts in industrials and education. Before that time, Mr. Berg was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions group of Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated. Mr. Berg serves on the board of directors of Maxim Crane, University of Phoenix and Los Angeles Football Club and he previously served on the boards of Laureate International Universities, Sylvan Learning, Berlitz, Connections Academy and Crisis Text Line. Mr. Berg graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Aaron Miller has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in May 2020. Mr. Miller is a Partner at Apollo Global Management and Head of Apollo Portfolio Performance Solutions, where he leads the focus on portfolio company operations. He brings over 20 years of experience across consumer, retail, manufacturing operations, and other business services and began his tenure in November 2019. Prior to this, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Catalina USA, where he accelerated the transformation of a tactical paper coupon company to a data & analytics focused, omni-channel, strategic marketing partner. He also served as an Operating Director at Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm, where he collaborated with deal teams and portfolio company executives to set the strategic agenda and drive value creation plans, senior talent acquisition, and operational performance improvement. Prior to Berkshire, Mr. Miller spent several years at Bain & Company, most recently as a Partner, serving as an advisor to senior management at multiple companies and boards of directors. Before Bain, he worked in various capacities across operations and R&D at General Mills and Cereal Partners Worldwide including driving operations turnarounds in Mexico and Brazil. Mr. Miller is a graduate of Northwestern Engineering with a BS in Chemical Engineering and holds an MBA from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

Lloyd G. Waterhouse has been a Director of McGraw Hill Education since March 2013. Mr. Waterhouse served as interim President and Chief Executive Officer of McGraw-Hill Education from October 2017 until April 2018. He was previously the President and Chief Executive Officer from March 2013 until April 8, 2014 and, before that, the President of the McGraw-Hill Education segment of McGraw-Hill Companies from June 2012 until March 2013. Mr. Waterhouse began his career with International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) in 1973. In 1992, he was appointed President of IBM’s Asia Pacific Services Corporation and later became IBM Director of Strategy for IBM. Mr. Waterhouse was also General Manager Marketing and Business Development, IBM Global Services, and General Manager, E-Business Services. In 1999, Mr. Waterhouse became President and Chief Operating Officer, and later Chief Executive Officer of Reynolds & Reynolds Co., a company primarily focused on software for the automotive industry. In 2006, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Harcourt Education, a leader in the United States School Education sector. The parent company of Harcourt Education decided to sell the business in 2007 and it merged with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt at the end of that year. Mr. Waterhouse has since served on the board of directors of SolarWinds, Inc., ITT Educational Services, Ascend Learning LLC, Digimarc Corporation, i2 Technologies, Inc., Atlantic Mutual Insurance Companies, Blue Yonder, Instructure, Larry H. Miller Companies and Sparta in addition to being a Senior Advisor at New Mountain Capital LLC. Mr. Waterhouse is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and holds an MBA from Youngstown State University.