Holly Paul

Holly Paul is a Senior Advisor at FTI Consulting. Ms. Paul served as FTI Consulting’s Chief Human Resources Officer from 2014 to 2025, where she led efforts to attract, engage, hire, develop and retain FTI Consulting’s leading professionals. In her role, she oversaw all areas of human capital, including talent acquisition, talent management, learning and development, workforce planning, compensation and benefits.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Paul served as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Vocus, Inc., a high-growth marketing and public relations software company. In this role, Ms. Paul worked directly for the Chief Executive Officer and closely with the executive team and board of directors to develop the company’s people strategy and led the execution of all employee initiatives, including executive team recruitment, compensation and talent management.

Ms. Paul began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) in 1994 after being initially recruited as a Certified Public Accountant. During her nearly 20-year tenure with PwC, she held various human resources roles, ultimately rising to become one of the firm’s most senior talent acquisition specialists, responsible for all senior talent acquisitions in the United States, and had additional international remit covering geographies such as China and the Middle East.