Chairman of the Board
Member of Compensation Committee
Member of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee

Kosty Gilis

Kosty has been a member of the Board and Chairman since Onex acquired Emerald in June of 2013. He is a Managing Director of Onex, a Toronto-based private equity firm, focusing on the business services sector.  He currently also serves on the boards of Clarivate Analytics and ASM Global.  Prior to joining Onex in 2004, Mr. Gilis worked at Willis Stein & Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm and was a management consultant at Bain & Company in the firm’s Toronto, Canada and Johannesburg, South Africa offices. 

Kosty holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S., Economics (Magna Cum Laude) from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.