Lloyd Howell Jr.

Senior Advisory Board member

Lloyd Howell Jr. is Booz Allen’s Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. He is responsible for the firm’s financial statements, capital structure, and related financial operations. He previously led the firm's Civil and Commercial business.

Mr. Howell joined Booz Allen in 1988 as a consultant and provided systems engineering support to multiple Department of Defense satellite programs. In 1991, he took a leave of absence from the firm to earn an M.B.A. from Harvard University, and was then hired by Goldman Sachs as an Associate in their investment banking division between 1993 and 1995. He returned to Booz Allen in 1995, becoming a member of the strategy and organisation team where he focused on DoD clients, specifically, the Navy/Marine Corps, Army and Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 2000, he was named as a Vice President. From 2005 to 2008, he lead the firm’s Strategy and Organisation practice supporting both international and domestic commercial and public sector clients.  From 2009 to 2013, he served as the client service officer of the financial services account, and has served on the firm’s leadership team since 2007. From 2013 to 2016, he led Booz Allen’s Civil and Commercial business, working on strategic, technology, and analytics projects. His federal clients included the U.S. Department of Treasury and its bureaus, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Commodity Futures Trade Commission. His commercial clients included companies within the top 50 global financial institutions and significant stock exchanges. In 2021, Mr. Howell was elected to the board of directors for Moody’s Corporation. He is also a member for the Washington Economics Club and serves as a Trustee at the University of Pennsylvania and on the Board of Overseers of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Mr. Howell holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He received the Black Engineer of the Year Award in 2011 and was the winner of the BEYA organisation’s Professional Leadership in Industry award in 2010.