Past Inductees

Nader F. Darehshori
Retired President
Houghton Mifflin Company
2002

Nader F. Darehshori began his career with Houghton Mifflin Company in 1966 as a Sales Representative in the College Division. He subsequently served in sales management positions in the College Division's Midwestern Regional Office and was appointed a College Division Vice President in 1984. He was promoted to Vice President and Director of the College Division in 1986, and in 1987 he was elected Senior Vice President, College Division. Darehshori was promoted to Executive Vice President in April 1989 and he was elected to the Board of Directors and named its Vice Chairman in December 1989. He was elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company in April 1990 and assumed the title of President in October 1991. He retired from the Company in 2002.

Darehshori is a director of the CGU Insurance Group. He is a director and a member of the Executive Compensation Committee of the State Street Bank and Trust Company and State Street Boston Corporation and chairman of the Boston Public Library Foundation. He also serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable and the Association of American Publishers, and is a trustee of Wellesley College, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Darehshori was an elementary school teacher in Iran prior to attending the University of Wisconsin, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1966. He has also received the honorary degree of Doctor of Commercial Science from Suffolk University.

Read his interview in AEP ONLINE.