MV Leadership

Harry Wilson

Chairman & CEO

Harry Wilson joined MV Transportation as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in August 2022. Harry is a nationally-recognized expert in corporate transformations, growth initiatives, turnarounds and restructurings and in helping businesses work through complicated transitions, as an investor/owner, senior executive, advisor or director. His work has focused particularly on positioning companies in transition to grow, create jobs and create value for years after the initial transformation work is complete.

Harry spent his early career as an investor at some of the nation’s top financial firms, working primarily to invest in and to improve companies. Harry spent most of this period at The Blackstone Group, the world’s largest private equity firm, and credit investment fund Silver Point Capital, where he was a partner. Earlier in his career, Harry worked at the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and in the investment banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Throughout most of his time at these firms, Harry led complicated transactions, as an investor and often board member, across a broad range of industries and geographies, working closely and collaboratively with senior management. These transactions typically involved major operational and/or financial transformations; significant acquisitions or asset sales; and/or strategic transitions at the company.

In 2009, Harry served as a Senior Advisor in the United States Department of the Treasury. He worked as one of the four leaders of the Auto Task Force, which was responsible for the Treasury’s role in the restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler. Harry led a team that was responsible for the business and financial work of the Task Force and led a team overseeing the financial and operational restructuring of General Motors – the largest industrial turnaround ever. In their work, Harry and his team worked closely with General Motors senior management to help develop a new operating plan that dramatically reduced the Company’s fixed cost structure and transformed its balance sheet, setting the stage for General Motors to generate dramatically improved operating results and record profits in the many years since.

Harry founded a boutique merchant bank, The MAEVA Group, LLC (an acronym for his wife and four daughters), in 2011. MAEVA focuses primarily on investing in or acquiring companies undergoing major change, or advising companies going through similar operational or financial transformations, so that these companies can better compete and thrive in the future.

Through these dozens of transformations, Harry has served on a long list of public and private company boards of directors. He has served on the boards of public companies Genesis Healthcare, Inc. (2021), Horizon Global (2019-2021), Sotheby’s (2014-2019, through its highly successful sale), Visteon Corporation (2011-2020), Yahoo! (2012-2013) and YRC Worldwide (2011-2014), as well as a number of successful private companies earlier in his career. In each of his director roles, he was asked to join the board by one or more major investors who wanted him to work with senior management and the Board to help better position the respective company for long-term growth and success during a critical transition period. In each case, each company experienced a substantial increase in shareholder value during Harry’s tenure that, collectively, more than doubled the return of the market over the same period of time. As a result, shareholders have seen billions of dollars in increased market value and tens of thousands of jobs were preserved or created.

Harry has been active in philanthropic and policy circles. He once served as a Presidential Appointee to the Advisory Committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC, 2011-2014), the federal agency responsible for insuring the pension benefits of private sector employees. He has served on several not-for-profit boards, including Youth, INC, a venture philanthropy not-for-profit focused on troubled New York City youth, and currently on The Hellenic Initiative, the leading Greek-American philanthropy. He and his wife, Eva Romas Wilson, co-head MAEVA Social Capital, which seeks to contribute to and help grow promising nonprofits supporting the social, emotional and intellectual development of at-risk young children. He has also been very active in youth sports, coaching all four of his daughters on various teams.

Harry earned an A.B. in government, with honors, in 1993 from Harvard College (making him the first in his direct family line to graduate from college) and also earned an MBA in 1999 from Harvard Business School. In high school, Harry was selected as one of 141 United States Presidential Scholars, considered the nation’s highest academic honor for high school students, under President George H.W. Bush. Harry and Eva have been married for 28 years and have raised four wonderful daughters.