Past Honorees

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
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