Robert J. Bahash
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
The McGraw-Hill Companies

Robert J. Bahash is executive vice president and chief financial officer for The McGraw-Hill Companies. In addition, he is responsible for managing the corporate-wide use of information technology, including the strategic direction of the corporation's electronic commerce strategy, Investor Relations and the Corporation's centralized manufacturing operations.

Before his appointment to executive vice president and chief financial officer in 1988, Mr. Bahash was senior vice president, Finance and Manufacturing. He joined the corporation in 1974 as manager of financial auditing, and has held a number of finance-related positions. He became executive vice president, Finance, for the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1983, and was appointed senior vice president, Corporate Financial Operations, in 1985.

Mr. Bahash is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Financial Executives Institute, and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for AnswerThink, Inc.

He graduated from Mount St. Mary's College (Maryland) with a B.S. degree in accounting and received a M.B.A. in finance from New York University. He is a certified public accountant.