Huron Consulting Group Adds Restructuring, Utilities and Healthcare Experts

CHICAGO--(Business Wire)--Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of
financial and operational consulting services, today announced that
Alain Le Berre, Alan D. Felsenthal and Richard A. Namerow have joined
the Company as managing directors.

"Alain, Alan and Rich are well-known leaders in their industries
and their deep background and expertise in turnaround, utilities and
healthcare will be invaluable to our clients," said Gary E. Holdren,
chairman and chief executive officer, Huron Consulting Group. "We are
pleased to welcome them to Huron."

Le Berre has been providing financial restructuring, distressed
corporate finance and turnaround services in Europe for 20 years. He
has experience with both debtors and creditors in the United Kingdom,
France and Germany and across industry sectors. Le Berre comes to
Huron from Close Brothers European Special Situations in London where
he was a managing director. Previously, he was a partner with
Andersen, then Ernst & Young in Paris. During his career, he served as
a chief restructuring officer (CRO) of troubled businesses for German
investors and worked as a restructuring consultant in Munich. Le Berre
has an MS in chemical engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris and an
MBA from INSEAD. He is based in London.

Felsenthal has more than 30 years of experience in the utilities
and telecommunications industries, including leading audits of
companies, participating in the registration of major debt and equity
financing, assisting with acquisitions and dispositions of assets and
businesses, and performing a number of special consulting projects. He
has also provided expert testimony to state regulatory commissions and
conducted seminars on the unique aspects of the regulatory process for
industry groups and utility companies. Felsenthal comes to Huron from
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he served as a managing director for
the Utilities Industry practice. He is a CPA and holds a BS in
accounting from the University of Illinois. Felsenthal is based in
Huron's Chicago office.

Namerow has been a management consultant in the healthcare
industry for the last 25 years. With extensive experience in large,
complex, healthcare organizations, he has led strategic planning,
business and clinical transformation, leadership development and
information management and technology initiatives for a variety of
healthcare clients. Most recently, Namerow was a practice partner in
global health solutions at Computer Sciences Corporation. In this
role, he led the business unit responsible for delivery of consulting
solutions to both payors and providers. Previously as a vice president
at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, he was responsible for identifying and
coordinating all consulting services to Pacific Southwest region
provider and payor clients. Namerow has a BA and an MBA from Cornell
University. He is based in Los Angeles.

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group helps clients effectively address complex
challenges that arise in litigation, disputes, investigations,
regulatory compliance, procurement, financial distress, and other
sources of significant conflict or change. The Company also helps
clients deliver superior customer and capital market performance
through integrated strategic, operational, and organizational change.
Huron provides services to a wide variety of both financially sound
and distressed organizations, including Fortune 500 companies,
medium-sized businesses, leading academic institutions, healthcare
organizations, and the law firms that represent these various
organizations. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.

Huron Consulting Group
Jennifer Frost Hennagir
312-880-3260
jfrost-hennagir@huronconsultinggroup.com

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