Board Advisory Services
tel: 312.755.5605 [direct]
tfulton@cookassociates.com
Thames Fulton is a Managing Director and head of the firm’s Board Advisory Services Practice. He serves as a board- and CEO-level advisor, assisting clients with board search, governance consulting, board analysis and assessment, development and succession planning in order to ascertain and recruit the optimum balance of skills and experience required among both management teams and boards to build and manage successful businesses.
Thames' search practice spans a wide variety of sectors including industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, retail and financial services. He has assisted large global corporations and smaller mid-cap companies as well as private firms in developing and enhancing their corporate governance practices. His clients have included such notable companies as AGCO Corporation, Columbus McKinnon, UNUM Group, Jo-Ann Stores Inc. and General Cable Corporation.
Thames has more than 10 years of experience executing board search and governance-based consulting engagements. Prior to joining Cook Associates, Thames served as a consultant with Heidrick & Struggles’ CEO & Board of Directors Practice where he focused on corporate governance consulting and board director searches. Before Heidrick & Struggles, Thames was with another global search firm, Russell Reynolds, where he was a key member of their CEO & Board Practice.
His early career includes experience as a research analyst at Euromonitor International, a global market research firm, and as a project manager at Mitternight Boiler Works, a manufacturer of A.S.M.E. pressure vessels, distillation columns and heat exchangers for the chemical and petroleum industries. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, implementing agro-forestry and natural resources management projects.
Thames holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.