Henry Stoever is a strategic, outcomes-focused business leader who has served as a CEO and CMO with two member-centric, board governance-focused associations, and he has led business development, communications, marketing, and partnership creation teams with four public companies in the information solutions, telecommunications, and consumer packaged goods industries. He also started an online student loan platform with a nonprofit education finance corporation. His diverse leadership experience across a variety of industries is enhanced by governing board service with private and nonprofit organizations.
Throughout Henry’s career, he has focused on collaboratively shaping well-informed B2B and B2C growth-oriented strategies, priorities, and initiatives to generate outcomes that exceeded stakeholders’ expectations. Further, Henry has developed, evolved, and utilized his TCP (Teams, Customers, and Products) leadership style to develop growth-minded cultures and teams that intentionally deepen their understanding of customers’ and members’ priorities, create and deliver unique products and services, and realize outcomes that build favorably memorable experiences, strong brands, distinct value propositions, and encouraging financial and non-financial results.
As the president and CEO of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), Henry’s growth-oriented leadership – in collaboration with the AGB board of directors, inspired enterprise-wide expansion and engagement with members across content, consulting, events, executive search, and partnerships. Critical to realizing this growth was his leadership to create the One AGB culture focused on deepening this association’s understanding of its members’ strategic priorities and driving cross-functional service with higher education governing boards, chief executive officers, board professionals, and leadership teams.
Previously, Henry was the Chief Marketing Officer for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) where his team developed and executed strategic communications, marketing, and partnership initiatives that empowered this association to triple revenue in seven years. Additionally, Henry led the business development team and shaped NACD’s account management strategy – in collaboration with his leadership team colleagues, to maximize members’ awareness of products and services designed to empower board members to govern with knowledge and confidence.
Earlier in Stoever’s career, he launched StudentLoans.com which became a leading originator of private and federally guaranteed student loans and served as VP Marketing for the CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), Senior Director of Vertical Marketing at Sprint-Nextel (now T-Mobile NASDAQ: TMUS), Director of Marketing, Communications, and Business Development for LexisNexis (NYSE: RELX), and Senior Brand Manager for Kraft Foods (NASDAQ: KHC).
After graduating from the United States Naval Academy with a BS in Economics, Henry spent five years in the United States Marine Corps as an Infantry Officer. Henry earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management with emphasis in marketing, strategy, and innovation.
Henry’s board experience includes serving as a director on the boards of Cycurion, Inc. and the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation and as a trustee for the United States Naval Academy Athletic & Scholarship Programs. Previously, Stoever served on the board of Boulder Crest Foundation and as a board advisor for the United Arab Emirates University.