Howard, a member of the MKYF Board since 2018, spearheaded the foundation’s entre into STEM with the adoption and sponsorship of a local area high school NSBE, Jr. Chapter. In his current role as VP of Strategy and M&A with NTT DATA Group, Howard is responsible for driving innovation and accelerating growth across the leading global IT Services company, NTT DATA’s global business, including NTT DATA Japan and NTT DATA Rest of the World. Howard previously served as Sr. Director of Growth & Strategy for NTT DATA, Inc. Holdings where he drove initiatives across the company’s global business with a focus on organic and inorganic revenue and profitability growth and expansion of NTT DATA’s portfolio of services. He also served as Practice Leader of NTT DATA Service’s Digital Business Consulting practice where he managed a P&L to sell and deliver digital strategy and transformation consulting services to global brands.

Before joining NTT DATA, Howard held leadership positions with management consultancies (including Booz & Company, now PwC Strategy&) where he provided strategy consulting services to help maximize the business returns of blue-chip commercial sector companies in diverse industries and in IT management in the private sector where he led multi-million-dollar IT initiatives for companies that included ALCOA, Inc., and Ryder System.

Howard holds an MBA (Corporate Strategy) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Business, an MS, MIS, from Florida International University, a BS, Industrial Management, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and has completed post-graduate studies in e-Business from Johns Hopkins University. Committed to service, Howard is a mentor to early-stage start-ups through the Maryland Technology Council’s Venture Mentoring Program, a long-standing Deacon at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church (Rockville, Maryland), and is an officer and active member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.