Solange Charas PhD

Dr. Charas is the Founder and CEO of HCMoneyball, an Adjunct Professor, and a governance researcher and thought-leader.

HCMoneyball's SaaS solution delivers capabilities for subscribers to quantify the material impact of human capital on corporate performance and understand the effectiveness of human capital programs in generating HCROI. She is an expert in the area of human capital disclosures required a variety of ESG governance frameworks, the SEC and ISO 30414.

Solange has served on public company boards and has held the Chairperson role for Audit and Compensation Committees. She has also served on private for-profit, non-profit and higher education boards.

As an Adjunct Professor, she designs and delivers curriculum in the Master’s Programs at Columbia, USC and NYU to develop financial literacy and human capital analytics skills. She also is a Distinguished Principal Research Fellow at The Conference Board and has written reports including Brave New World: Creating Long-term Value through HCM; and Accelerating Value by Using Human Capital Analytics to Understand the Workforce Experience. She leads the Strategic Human Capital Institute in the Human Capital Center, and serves as a Board Advisor to the Center.

Solange held the CHRO position at three global public companies and was part of the leadership team (National Director) at EY and Arthur Andersen.

Dr. Charas earned a PhD in Management ( focused on Board Governance) from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, and a BA in International Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

She has been published or cited in more than 260 research and practitioner publications including 63 academic citations. Some of her noteworthy publications include Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Agenda Magazine, Financier Worldwide, NACD, Fast Company, USA Today, LA Times, Boston Globe, Entrepreneur Magazine. She has contributed chapters for both editions of The Handbook for Board Governance and Coaching the Team at Work: Team Coaching Handbook. She is a frequent speaker at events addressing human capital governance issues.