Previously, Thomas-Graham had served as president and chief executive officer of CNBC.com, where she was responsible for the online activities of CNBC. Before joining NBC in September 1999, Thomas-Graham was a partner at McKinsey & Company, and one of the leaders of its Media and Entertainment practice. She joined McKinsey, the global management consulting firm, in 1989 and became its first black woman partner in 1995.

Among the many business honors she has received are the 2001 Matrix award from New York Women in Communications for her contributions in the field of new media; the “Woman of the Year” award from the Financial Women’s Association; and inclusion in the Crain’s New York Business “Forty Under Forty” list of rising young business leaders. She was also chosen as one of the “Top 20 Women in Finance” by Global Finance Magazine, and one of the “Top 10 Consultants in America” by Consulting Magazine. Thomas-Graham has been profiled by Fortune and Time and is a frequent commentator on business and marketing issues in the U.S. and abroad.

In addition to her corporate work, Thomas-Graham is the best-selling author of the critically acclaimed “Ivy League Mystery” series, which includes two novels published by Simon & Schuster: A Darker Shade of Crimson and Blue Blood.

Thomas-Graham serves on the boards of the New York City Opera, the American Red Cross of Greater New York, the Inner-City Scholarship Fund and the Harvard Alumni Association. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

She lives in Westchester County with her husband, attorney and author Lawrence Otis Graham, and their young son.

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