Leadership Team

Rodney is a hands-on, passionate leader who establishes and drives T&H’s vision, mission, and direction; leads the firm’s strategy; and ensures the financial strength of the firm by increasing earnings and cash flow. Rodney establishes and maintains client relationships, strategic alliances, joint ventures and M&A activity. Rodney is a proud Army Veteran and he earned an MBA from Howard University and a BA from the University of the District of Columbia.

Deana P. Herbert is Co-Founder, President & Chief Operating Officer of Thomas & Herbert Consulting (T&H) with over 33 years of experience in strategic planning, organizational development, leadership, business transformation, change management, performance management and corporate innovative solutions. She services as the Executive Account Lead and provides strategic advisory support services to clients such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Health Affairs, and Department of Health and Human Services. She oversees the daily operations of T&H and serves as an Executive and Leadership Coach for executives in Government, faith-based organizations and other client organizations. Ms. Herbert provides strategic support, thought leadership, and technical guidance to the clients and T&H Leadership Team on enterprise strategic initiatives, issues and possible solutions.

Margaret Ogugua serves as HR Consultant for Thomas & Herbert Consulting LLC, bringing over 8 years of diverse HR experience with companies in the clinical research, information technology, and management consulting industries. She provides support with short and long-term HR Consulting in areas including employee relations, full employee life-cycle support, performance management employee handbook development, policy and procedure development, onboarding and termination, payroll administration, benefit program administration, and employee training and development.

With over 16 years of finance and operation experience, Shirley has broad expertise in all aspects of corporate accounting and finance management. Her direct experience is with government contractor accounting with specialties in designing and maintaining compliant financial and cost accounting systems, assuring the proper segregation of activities and cost allocations, ensuring compliance with FAR & DCAA requirements, managing cash and annual budgets. At Thomas & Herbert Consulting LLC, Shirley manages accounting & finance activities, including financials reporting, cash projection, financial analysis, annual budgets, pricing, and provides audit support.

With over 23 years of accounting, internal controls, IT audit, and financial system implementations across multiple sectors and industries, Chante’ has been providing accounting and consulting services to the Federal sector for the past 19 years. She possesses a broad knowledge base of Federal compliance issues, including Government Auditing Standards (GAS); Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act; Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-123, Appendix A; Federal Information System Controls Audit Manual (FISCAM); Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA); Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA); Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA); and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). Prior to joining Thomas & Herbert Consulting LLC, Chante’ served in various positions at several local and regional accounting and consulting firms, including 2 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and 7 1/2 years at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Today at Thomas & Herbert Consulting LLC, Chante’ is a Managing Director that supports client delivery.

As a Manager at T&H, Antwoine brings 20 years of experience in affordable housing & mixed-finance transactions, government financial management, real estate finance, budgeting, forecasting and general ledger accounting. During his tenure, Antwoine has served in a multitude of roles on several HUD projects and facilitated the successful execution of multiple contract option periods. Prior to his tenure with T&H, Antwoine spent 10 years with a large Public Housing Authority (PHA) where he was responsible for the financial management of over 30 redevelopment grants whose funding exceeded $200 million. Antwoine is a proud alumnus of Florida A&M University’s School of Business and Industry (SBI).