Brad Addison is a partner in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. Brad is the chairman of Barnes & Thornburg’s life science group. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Department where he concentrates his practice on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the chemical/biological technology areas. In particular, he has experience dealing with intellectual property issues in various chemical/biological and related technology areas including pharmaceuticals, molecular biology, instrumental analysis, tissue graft compositions, antiviral agents, immunoassay technology, polymer chemistry, and combinatorial chemistry techniques. Brad earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Indiana State University in 1983 and his doctorate from the University of Kentucky in 1995. At the University of Kentucky, his research focus was molecular pharmacology and involved the design and synthesis of novel compounds for the treatment of type II diabetes. He received his JD from the University of Cincinnati in 1993. Brad is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In addition, he is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the state of Indiana, including practicing before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.
Celeste Bottorff is vice president, Living Well at Coca-Cola North America in Atlanta, Georgia. Celeste leads the strategy and execution of initiatives that communicate Coca-Cola’s role in facilitating positive, uplifting experiences for consumers and their communities. Her work involves collaboration with leading scientists, policy makers, and opinion leaders regarding obesity and active lifestyle issues and development of consumer and employee messaging and advertising regarding Coca-Cola’s products and community involvement.
Celeste started her career at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory where she worked in accelerator operations. She has 30 years of broad experience in Fortune 500 and fast-growing smaller companies and high-level management consulting experience with McKinsey & Company, where she worked in both the technology and marketing practice groups. In addition to working for Coca-Cola, she has worked as senior vice president, Strategy and Marketing for AHL Services Inc., marketing director for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution and director of global planning for Intercontinental Hotels. She serves on the Board of Directors of Caraustar Industries and HireDynamics Inc. and the Cystic Fibrosis Reaching Out Foundation.
Celeste received her MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and her BS in physics from Purdue University. Celeste was named one of Atlanta Woman magazine’s Atlanta Power Women in 2007. She has served on the Purdue University College of Science Alumni Board since 2006 and was named an Outstanding Physics Alumnus by the College of Science in 2007.
Bill Browning is founder and president of Applied Mathematics Inc. in Gales Ferry, Connecticut. Applied Mathematics Inc. develops and implements mathematical models that are used by clients to improve their decision-making process. His work has focused on applications of mathematics to naval operations. Bill has provided technical support to the U.S. Department of Defense and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense since 1974. He has embarked on over 35 U.S. and Royal Navy nuclear submarines conducting operations throughout the world, and has flown in a variety of naval aircraft conducting search operations. He assisted in the Suez Canal Search for unexploded ordnance. He has authored numerous Naval Warfare Publications in the areas of submarine tactics, optimal allocation of underwater signal processing, and search and tracking systems. Bill was awarded the Meritorious Public Service Citation by the Chief of Naval Operations for his contributions to anti-submarine search theory and sonar development and the Distinguished Civilian Award by the Naval Submarine League. He received his BS (1968), MS (1969), and PhD (1974) in mathematics. He was named a Distinguished Science Alumnus in 1995.
Shirley H. Buccieri is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Palo Alto office and a member of the firm’s Corporate Transactions Practice Group. Her practice focuses on merger and acquisition transactions and corporate and securities matters. She practiced with Gibson Dunn from 1983 to 1995. She left the firm in 1995 to become general counsel of Transamerica Corporation, headquartered in San Francisco. In 1999, Shirley was a critical part of the management team that negotiated the multi-billion dollar sale of Transamerica to Aegon NV, a Dutch insurance conglomerate. After the sale, she founded Willow Place Partners, a Menlo Park, California-based corporate advisory firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Shirley was named one of the top general counsels by Corporate Counsel magazine, has been selected as one of the top women in business in San Francisco, and was included in the publication, “Going to the Top, a Road Map for Success from America’s Leading Women Executives.” Shirley holds a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the University of Akron School of Law. She received her BS (1973) in mathematics from Purdue, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Jack Chappell is currently the retired chairman of the board of Affiliated Community Bancorp of Waltham, Mass. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Purdue’s School of Science in 1950. Before his retirement, Jack’s career was primarily focused in the management of manufacturing companies with a high-tech or engineering emphasis. Jack’s early employment began at International Harvester in Fort Wayne, where he learned the art of negotiating labor contracts. After that, Jack went on to work for Central Soya and General Signal, before getting his first taste of management experience with Kinney Vacuum, a division of the General Signal Company. Jack went on to serve as a senior vice president and group executive for Joy Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was recruited by the W. H. Nichols Co. of Waltham, to solve their excessive debt load problem. Jack and his wife, Ruth, are among the principal supporters who began the campaign to construct the Richard and Patricia Lawson Computer Science Building.
Dr. Robert E. Curry joined Alliance Technology Ventures as a venture partner in July 2002. Before joining ATV, he served as both a general and a venture partner at Sprout Group, a venture capital affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston, where he originated the life sciences investment activity. Bob joined Sprout in 1991 as a general partner when Sprout assumed management of two public venture capital funds originated by Merrill Lynch & Company Inc. He continues to work with Sprout as a consultant. Previously, Bob worked for Merrill Lynch serving in various capacities with Merrill Lynch R&D Management Inc. and Merrill Lynch Venture Capital Inc., including serving as president of both organizations from January 1990 to May 1991. His previous roles included vice president of Becton Dickinson & Company and general manager of Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.’s Diagnostic Systems Division. Bob currently serves as a director of Emerald BioAgriculture Corporation, GenOptix Inc., Sensys Medical Inc., Apieron Inc. He received his MS (1971) and PhD (1974) in chemistry from Purdue University and has been recognized as a Smith Kline Fellow. In 2005, Bob was named a Distinguished Science Alumnus, and he also received the Dean’s Ovation award for outstanding contributions to the College of Science.
Kathy Davis is the owner of Davis Design Group, which specializes in public sector policy and system design and tools for managing change. Kathy is the former chief executive officer for Global Access Point, a South Bend technology company that offers digital services and computing space to businesses and universities. Kathy served as Indiana’s first female lieutenant governor and led the state’s economic development, agricultural, and counter-terrorism efforts and served as the president of the Indiana State Senate. Prior to her appointment as lt. governor, Kathy served as the controller for the City of Indianapolis. Kathy has held leadership roles with Cummins Inc., the Indiana Department of Transportation, the Indiana State Budget Agency, the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration and the 21st Century Research and Technology Fund. Kathy earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree from Harvard Business School.
Leroy Davis is the executive director for The Center of Excellence in Rural and Minority Health and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina. The Center of Excellence in Rural and Minority Health focuses its activities on improving access to health care services and eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. In 2002 Leroy retired from South Carolina State University, where he had served as president since 1996. He began his career at South Carolina State University as an assistant professor of biology in 1979. Under Leroy’s leadership, South Carolina State University greatly expanded its role as one of the state’s finest institutions of higher learning. The University obtained its first NCAA certification of its athletic program and in 2001, earned a top ten ranking among historically Black colleges and universities in the graduation of African Americans earning bachelor’s degrees. He developed a ten-year facilities master plan in 2002 and raised funds for the construction of a fine arts center and for major renovations of campus facilities. He received his MS (1972) and PhD (1979) in biological sciences from Purdue University. Leroy was named 1985 Teacher of the Year by South Carolina State University, and has received honorary degrees from Francis Marion University and South Carolina State University. He was a Purdue Old Master in 2000. In 2002, he was awarded the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian award. In 2003, Leroy was named a Distinguished Science Alumnus.
Dr. Andrew De Rocco, who currently serves as chair of the Board of the Connecticut Academy of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology Inc., previously served as the state’s commissioner of higher education, following upon his presidency of Denison University and as the dean of the faculty/ provost of Trinity College (Connecticut). He received his BS (1951) in chemistry/mathematics/physics from Purdue and the MS, PhD in chemical physics from the University of Michigan, where he began his academic career. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences before accepting the position as institute professor of molecular physics at the University of Maryland. While at Maryland, he held a joint appointment at The National Institutes of Health and developed the graduate program in biophysics at the university. He has served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, IBM, the Association of American Colleges, The Charles A. Dana Foundation, and the Alfred E. Sloan Foundation, among others. He was an early advocate for honors programs, especially in public institutions, and served as president of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Dr. De Rocco’s professional affiliations include the American Physical, Chemical, and Biophysical Societies and the AAAS, to which he was elected a Fellow. The recipient of the William Rainey Harper Medal for contributions to higher education, he is a 1999 Distinguished Science Alumnus.
Jerone N. “Jer” Deverman is principal consultant of Medical Data Systems, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based consulting firm, which he founded in 1977. It specializes in healthcare claims administration systems, operations, and statistical analysis of related healthcare claims and encounters data. He received bachelor and master degrees in mathematics from Purdue in the early 1960’s and also a PhD degree in mathematical statistics from Purdue in 1969, after serving for two years as an Army officer assigned to Joint Task Force Two, a large-scale low-altitude navigation and reconnaissance testing program of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Vietnam conflict. His demonstrated expertise and recognition thereof within the healthcare claims and encounters administration area is primarily in increasing claims processing automation; decreasing required human labor; increasing claims processing accuracy, consistency, and speed; and decreasing total administration costs. He is generally credited with coining the phrase, “procedure code driven” as an euphemism for giving the computer the full set of claim data so that adjudication can take place without need of human intervention. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Statistics during the spring 2007 semester and taught STAT490C (Healthcare Plans, Data and Financing) within Purdue’s actuarial science program. He was formerly on the Board of Directors of the Purdue Alumni Association; served previously on the Dean’s Advisory Council (Dean Harry Morrison); has recently completed a three-year term on the College of Science Alumni Board; received a College of Science Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1995; was inducted into the Purdue Army ROTC Hall of Fame in 1997. His wife, Wona A. Deverman, Purdue graduate and past president of the Purdue Alumni Association, has been a long-time member of the Purdue President’s Council.
Henry Gaw is the Senior Vice President of C. M. Capitol Corporation, a private charitable foundation that improves and enhances the quality of life for the people and communities (especially in the Asian-American communities) of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area of California. He received his BS (1970) and MS (1971) in chemistry from Purdue University
Linda Graebner is a veteran consumer products and direct marketing executive as well as turnaround specialist. In her role as president and CEO of Tilia Inc., she transformed a relatively small ($9 million revenue), unprofitable, and insolvent company into a leading manufacturer of premier lines of small electric kitchen appliances (FoodSaver® and VillaWare® brands). She built a virtually unknown product (the FoodSaver® vacuum packaging machine) into the fourth largest category in small electric appliances at revenues in excess of $200 million. She managed the sale of this privately held company to Jarden Corp. (NYSE) in 2002 in a $185 million cash transaction. She continued to lead the company as a division of Jarden through 2006, enjoying continued growth in revenue and generating in excess of $100 million additional cash flow for Jarden. In 2001, Linda Graebner was honored with the Ernst & Young Manufacturing Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Northern California, the geographic focal point for entrepreneurship in the U.S. The award recognized her extraordinary success in innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to her company and community. Graebner was also cited as one of the “100 Most Influential Bay Area Business Women” by the San Francisco Business Times in 2000, 2001, and 2006 because of her company’s success increasing and marketing new technology for the home. Recognized as an expert in the housewares industry, Linda Graebner served as chairman of the board of directors of the International Housewares Association (IHA), and currently serves on their executive committee. She is also a board member of Bradshaw International, makers of premium kitchenware, bakeware, cookware, plastic storage, and tabletop products and served as a board member of Wine.com, the world’s largest online wine store through 2005. She serves on the board of the San Francisco chapter of The Association of Corporate Growth, the premier association involved in middle-market corporate growth and development and mergers and acquisitions. She recently joined the board of directors of Pacific Community Ventures, a unique organization providing both investment capital and advisory services to businesses serving low-income communities in California. Linda earned her BS (1972) in mathematics from Purdue University.
Ted L. Grayson is a retired surgeon. He earned a BS and an MD at Indiana University and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society. Ted served six postdoctoral years as a surgery resident, NIH research fellow, and American Cancer Society research fellow at Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. His interests were surgical oncology, sodium depletion, and steroid metabolism. In 1961, he moved to Indianapolis and for 30 years was a practicing surgeon, member of the surgery faculty at Indianapolis Methodist Hospital and the clinical surgery faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine. Ted has served on many professional boards, including the Methodist Hospital board of directors, volunteers, and often lectures to civic organizations on science and health care matters. He received the President’s Award for founding and coordinating the Senior’s Physicians’ Group of the Indianapolis Medical Society. Ted and his wife, Rosanna, own a swine seed stock farm operation. In 2005 they received the Dean’s Ovation Award for outstanding contributions to the College of Science.
Moira is best known as the host of both Tech Nation and BioTech Nation, heard weekly on the National Public Radio (NPR) channels on Sirius satellite radio, on public radio stations nationwide, and in 133 countries via American Forces Radio International. A former NASA scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn was the first woman to earn a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, where she also earned a MS (1972) in computer science. She holds a software patent in nutrition science and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Currently, Dr. Gunn is the director of information systems programs in the College of Professional Studies at the University of San Francisco. She serves on a number of advisory boards, including the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, the Trusted Computing Group, and The Tech Awards’ Global Leadership Council. Dr. Gunn was named a Science Laureate for her contributions to science journalism. Her first book, “Welcome to BioTech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, Big Ideas,” was published in spring 2007. She received the Dean’s Ovation award for outstanding contributions to the College of Science in 2006.
Elaine Heron is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Labcyte Inc. (formerly Picoliter Inc.), a role she assumed in July 2001. Dr. Heron spent six years in increasingly responsible positions at the Applied Biosystems Group of Applera Corporation, including the positions of general manager and vice president of sales and marketing. From 1995 to 1996, she served as vice president of marketing at Affymetrix Inc. She currently serves on the board of directors for BioMarin Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Heron earned a BS (1970) in chemistry with highest distinction and a PhD (1974) in analytical biochemistry from Purdue University and an MBA from Pepperdine University. She previously served as a member of the School of Science Dean’s Leadership Council from 1999 to 2002 and also received the Distinguished Science Alumni Award in 2004.
Vic Hunter is founder and president of Hunter Business Group LLC. He is nationally known for his expertise in business-to-business direct marketing and service to the nation’s leading companies. Founded in 1981, Hunter Business Group is the first consulting and services company dedicated solely to increasing the productivity of businesses by assisting them to sell products and services to other businesses, institutions, and professionals. Prior to starting his consulting business, Vic was president of Business and Institutional Furniture, a direct mail business furniture and equipment distributor in Milwaukee. Before that, Vic was director of marketing for a manufacturing company in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He currently serves on the board of directors for Wm. K. Walthers Inc., as well as being past chairman of the World Presidents Organization-Wisconsin Chapter. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a BS (1969) in physics from Purdue. He has given an Industry Expert Briefing to the Harvard first-year marketing MBA staff, and has also been a guest lecturer at Northwestern’s Medill School, the University of Chicago Graduate Business School, and Columbia University. He is the author of Business to Business Marketing: Creating a Community of Customers, which provides a comprehensive model for doing business in the new customer-focused environment and the practical guidance for implementing profitable, customer-driven marketing programs. In 2006, Vic was named a Distinguished Science Alumnus, and he also received the Dean’s Ovation award for outstanding contributions to the College of Science.
Dr. Peter S. Kay is the principal of Strategic Management, a business consulting firm he founded in 1986. Previously he spent 20 years in positions at U.S. Steel, DuPont, Gulf Oil, and General Electric Co.
Pete earned his PhD in chemistry from Purdue's College of Science in 1966, and is a very active member of the Boilermaker family. He and Sally are currently serving as co-chairs of the President's Council, and Pete is a past president of the Purdue Alumni Foundation, founder and past chair of the Purdue Crew Fund, and founder/past chair of the Purdue Cancer Center Advisory Council. He also served on the Discovery Park Advisory Council, the Science Dean's Advisory Council, the President's Council Advisory Committee and the national steering committee for The Campaign for Purdue.
His wife, Sally, recently retired from GlaxoSmithKline and consults in strategic product development. She serves on the advisory board for Purdue’s Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, and is on the search committee for Purdue’s vice president for marketing and media. Pete and Sally both continue to be informal advisors to the Cancer Center, and continue to serve on the President’s Council Advisory Committee.
In addition to his professional activities, Pete has been very active in rowing, serving as an internationally licensed official (World Championships and Olympic Games), has been a civilian advisor to the Air Force, a trustee of his church, and a member of his township’s board of zoning appeals. He has also served on various sports and civic leadership groups in the Greater Cincinnati community.
Clinton Kelly is senior vice president with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and has 20 years of leadership and management in research and advanced technology projects in both industry and government. He is responsible for the conduct of the corporation’s independent research and development (IR&D) program. He chairs the committee that reviews all IR&D proposals submitted by the operating groups and makes recommendations for funding to the chairman and president. He is also charged to independently identify and recommend areas for IR&D projects. Prior to joining SAIC, he was director of the U.S. Strategic Computing Program, the national fifth-generation high performance computing research initiative, and executive director of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Office, the leading source of funding for advanced computer science research in the United States. He was director of research and a founder of Decisions and Designs Inc., a company specializing in the development and application of decision analysis to public and national security policy problems. He is the author and co-author of several reports and articles about decision theory. He has been a speaker at numerous colloquia, seminars, and conferences and has taught courses at the Foreign Service Institute, the National War College, the Central Intelligence Agency Senior Seminar, the Army Logistics Management School, the Defense Intelligence Agency School, the Defense Management School, the Army War College, the National Defense University, and other organizations within and outside the government.
Peter T. Kissinger, PhD founded Bioanalytical Systems Inc. in 1974 and had served as its Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from 1974 until September, 2006, when he resigned the position of President and Chief Executive Office to assume the role of Chief Scientific Officer. He is also a part-time Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, where he has been teaching since 1975. Dr. Kissinger has a Bachelor of Science degree in Analytical Chemistry from Union College and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Kissinger is a highly recognized pioneer in hydrodynamic electroanalytical techniques for the neurosciences, modern liquid chromatography and in vivo methodology for drug metabolism. Dr. Kissinger has published over 220 scientific papers and has presented more than 400 invited lectures. He is a Fellow of the AAPS and the AAAS and was a finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Indiana Heartland region for 2001 and 2003. Pete currently serves on the advisory board for Purdue’s Discovery Park. Dr. Kissinger is the husband of Candice B. Kissinger.
John Landis has distinguished himself in the pharmaceutical industry. During his career, he has led the integration and globalization of preclinical development during three mergers of companies he worked for. He has done research to reduce drug candidate attrition leading to increased productivity in companies and was responsible for a global team of 1,400 scientists who were engaged in the development of pharmaceuticals. John has recently retired from Schering-Plough as senior vice president for pharmaceutical sciences.
Before attending Purdue, John received his bachelor degree in chemistry from Kent State University. While at Purdue, he received a MS in analytical chemistry in 1976, and his PhD in the same subject in 1978.
John began work for the Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 2000, he relocated to the company’s headquarters in New Jersey after it merged with Pharmacia and G. D. Searle earlier in his career. He worked for Pharmacia for three years, until Pfizer acquired it in 2003. He then moved with the chief executive office of Pharmacia to Schering-Plough, a research-based pharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey with more than 50,000 employees worldwide.
John has assisted in the development of more than 40 medications, including but not limited to Xanax, Atgam, Prostin VR, Rogaine, Mirapex, Xalatan, Camptosar and Zyvox. He has served on many boards of directors, academic advisory panels, and numerous professional boards.
He is a current member of the Purdue Chemistry Council and the Dean’s Leadership Council for the College of Science. John received the School of Science’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1994. John and his wife, Sharon, sponsor a scholarship in the School of Electrical Engineering named for Sharon’s late father, Giles Morrill, who was also a Purdue graduate.
Richard Lawson is President and COO of Lawson Software, which he co-founded with his brother and another partner in 1975. Now headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota and London, Lawson Software has grown from a small technology consulting company into an international software giant. The company provides Web-addressable, role-based Self-Evident Applications®, transaction engines and e-business extensions to power financial, human resources, procurement, distribution and enterprise relationship management solutions. Lawson Software’s customer list includes such diverse organizations as University of North Carolina medical Center, Polo Ralph Lauren Inc., American Floral Services Inc., Warner Brothers, Bridgestone/Firestone, American Hospital Association, and Lloyds Bank. He earned his MS (1968) in computer science from Purdue University. Richard was named a Distinguished Science Alumnus in 2002 and received the Dean’s Ovation award for outstanding contributions to the College of Science in 2005. He received an honorary doctorate from Purdue in 2006.
John is the president and CEO of Favrille Inc. a biotechnology company in San Diego, California, that is developing immunotherapies for the treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. John had more than 25 years experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical arena prior to joining Favrille Inc. in February 2002. His prior experience includes the growth of two biotechnology companies from start up to product approval. He has participated in all aspects of company development including public offerings, venture capital funding, corporate partnering, and management of collaborations, mergers and acquisitions. In 1992, John joined DepoTech as senior vice president of research, development, and operations and then served as president and COO from February 1998 to March 1999. Under his leadership, DepoTech took its lead product, Depocyt, from early pre-clinical research and development through to commercial launch. Depocyt is approved for the treatment of lymphomatous meningitis, a condition that occurs when a lymphoma spreads to the brain and spinal column. Following SkyePharma PLCs acquisition of DepoTech in 1999, John served as president for the U.S. operations of SkyePharma Inc. and as a member of the executive committee for SkyePharma PLC. From 1982 to 1992, he was at Scios (previously Cal Bio), a biotechnology company in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was vice-president and director of development at Scios from 1986 to 1992. John was also a director of a number of Cal Bio subsidiaries during this period including Meta Bio and Karo Bio. He holds a BS (1969) in chemistry from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and a PhD in biochemistry from The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University from 1980 to 1982.
Guy Meadows is professor of applied ocean physics and director of the marine hydrodynamics laboratories at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. His primary research interests are in geophysical fluid dynamics with emphasis on environmental forecasting and full-scale experimental hydrodynamics. In this arena, he has influenced policy and explored societal impacts of environmental forecasting for coastal management, recreational health and safety, and regional climate change. He has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching, reflecting his ability to enlighten and inspire students, and currently reaches over 400 first-year engineering students through his course entitled “The Engineering Profession.” In addition, his teaching reaches beyond the university setting to less formal environments, and includes three nationally televised documentaries for the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. Guy earned his PhD (1977) in marine science from Purdue, and he was named a Distinguished Science Alumnus in 2005.
John P. Neary, MD, FACS, is a practicing maxillofacial and facial plastic surgeon in Hudson, Ohio. He divides his time between private practice and academics. He is an assistant clinical professor at Case-Western Reserve University. John earned his BS (1982) in interdisciplinary science from Purdue, his DDS from Ohio State University, and his MD from Louisiana State University. He completed his general surgery and maxillofacial surgery residencies at Louisiana State University at New Orleans and then completed a fellowship in facial plastic surgery in New Orleans before beginning private practice back in his native Ohio. He has been nationally recognized by “The Best Doctors in America” in his specialty since 1994.
After receiving his PhD in chemistry in 1969, Pedro joined The Procter and Gamble Co., where he served for 32 years. His career as a research chemist involved instrumentation development and problem solving, particularly in the areas of biotransformation and human olfaction. His interest in ultra-trace analyses led to participation in national and international symposia on chromatographic techniques. He is a former member of the ACS and the organizing committee of the Ohio Valley Chromatography Symposium. He has over 100 external and internal publications, including seven patents and a book chapter on electronic noses. In addition to lecturing extensively in the area of ultra-trace organic analyses, Pedro also taught chromatography and instrumental analysis as an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Chemistry at Xavier University (1973–1986). In 1990 he was inducted into the newly formed Victor Mills Society as a charter member. The society recognizes long-term scientific and business contributors to the Procter and Gamble Co. In 2001 the Analytical Excellence Award of the Procter and Gamble Co. was given his name, and in 2006 the Department of Chemistry of Purdue University recognized him as an Outstanding Alumnus. He and his wife Sheila live in Sanibel, Florida.
William Sadler is a professor of biology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. After receiving his doctorate in biology from Purdue in 1961, he joined the faculty of Texas Southern University, eventually rising to professor and chairman of the Biology Department. In 1972, Bill began a long association with the National Institutes of Health, during which he performed with special distinction administering large public health programs. He began as a health scientist administrator for the Population and Reproduction Branch of the Center for Population Research and rose to chief of the Reproductive Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In 1988, he became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Howard University, serving in that capacity until 1993 when he assumed his current position as professor of biology. Bill was named a Distinguished Science Alumnus in 1995.
Anne Schowe graduated from Purdue in 1972 with a BS degree in computer science. From 1972 until 2000, she built a wide-ranging career in the computer industry culminating in her position as vice president for major account quality at Sun Microsystems. Anne is now retired from Sun and has been enrolled as a part-time graduate student in biology at Purdue for the past 2 years. Active in a variety of volunteer activities, Anne serves on the advisory board of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, the Science Women of Purdue Steering Committee and, with her husband, Tom, on the Purdue Parent’s Campaign Committee. In addition to her BS degree from Purdue, Anne earned an MS in computer science from Northwestern University in 1974, and an MBA from the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1979.
Jing Shyr is chief statistician and senior vice president at SPSS Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, where she is responsible for the corporate direction of statistical development in data mining and e-commerce. She was promoted to vice president in 1999 from senior director of statistical development. Jing joined SPSS in 1986 as a statistician responsible for algorithm design and statistics technical support. Jing was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1984 to 1986. The College of Science honored Jing with a Distinguished Science Alumna award in 2000. In 2001, she was named one of the top women in Chicago’s high tech community by i-Street magazine. The magazine cited her innovative vision and outstanding contributions to the field of software development. Jing earned her PhD (1984) in statistics from Purdue University. In 2005, she was named a distinguished alumna of Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan, where she earned her master’s degree in applied statistics, and in April 2006 she received a distinguished alumna award from National Chiao Tung University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics.
John Sninsky, PhD is the vice president of discovery research at Celera. The Discovery Research group encompasses teams of scientists who work in specific disease areas, a high-throughput genotyping and expression facility, statistical genetics, biomarker development, computational biology, and future diagnostic technologies. His primary focus is the application of genetic and genomic tools to identify and develop diagnostic and pharmacogenomic assays for common complex disease and cancer. He is the author of numerous scientific papers including methods in molecular biology, application of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to virology and more recently genome-wide genetic disease association studies.
Among Dr. Sninsky’s past awards are the Centers for Disease Control Charles C. Shepherd Science Award (1988), the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology Award (1992) and the Hoffmann-La Roche R & D Prize in 1997 for his efforts in applying PCR to virology and developing assays for measuring viral load in individuals with (HIV) AIDS.
Dr. Sninsky’s Purdue University associated activities include receipt of the Purdue Distinguished Alumni Award in 2001 and serving on the Department of Biological Sciences Alumni Advisory Committee (2005-2007) before joining the Dean’s Leadership Council in 2007.
Dr. Sninsky received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Bates College (1972) and a PhD in biology from Purdue University (1976). Dr. Sninsky’s mentor at Purdue was Dr. P. T. Gilham. He was a postdoctoral fellow in genetics and medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine with Dr. Stanley N. Cohen (1977–81). From 1981 to 1984, Dr. Sninsky was on the faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology with a joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Biology. He was a member of the AECOM Liver and Cancer Centers. From 1984 to 1991, he worked at Cetus Corporation where he was responsible for the immunoassay and molecular diagnostics programs. From 1991 to 1998, John was the senior director of research at Roche Molecular Systems. His team of scientists devised PCR diagnostic assays for many infectious pathogens as well as for genetic diseases and cancer. In 1998, he was promoted to vice president, Discovery Research, as well as vice president, Roche Genetics, an initiative that coordinated the genetic and genomic efforts between the pharmaceutical and diagnostics divisions. Dr. Sninsky joined Celera in 2001.
Stuart Solin is the Charles M. Hohenberg Professor of Experimental Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Stuart received his bachelor’s degree in physics from MIT and his MS (1966) and PhD (1970) from Purdue. After receiving his PhD, he joined the physics faculty at the University of Chicago where he became co-director of the NSF Materials Research Laboratory. In 1979, he moved to Michigan State University and shortly thereafter organized and directed the Center for Fundamental Materials Research. Stuart is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow and Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics, UK, and was a Sloan Fellow. He received the Best Patent Award for 1998 and the Technology Impact Award for 2000 from NEC. He has published more than 230 scientific articles, has been awarded 15 patents, has edited or co-edited several books, and has authored many scholarly review articles. Stuart received a Distinguished Science Alumnus Award from Purdue in 1997.
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Patrick Starich
Patrick Starich holds a BS degree in geology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a MS (1984) in geoscience from Purdue. For more than 22 years he has been actively involved in exploration, development, and research for the oil and gas industry. Patrick holds the position of senior geoscience advisor with Imperial Oil Resources Ltd. His professional interests include integrated forward and inverse modeling of three-dimensional seismic and potential field data. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and a past member of the SEG Council. He has served as editor, secretary, first vice-president and president to Geophysical Society of Houston. Patrick was a member of the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Advisory Committee at Purdue from 1999 to 2002 and was honored as an EAS Outstanding Alumnus in 2005. He has been active in the local government, as both Zoning and Planning Commissioner and City Council Member to the City of West University Place, Texas.
Hank Suerth is the director of executive education for Purdue’s Krannert School of Management. He is responsible for directing student and academic support services, corporate relations, marketing, program recruiting, and overall administration for the internationally ranked Krannert Executive Education Programs. He has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship in Discovery Park, where he developed the Faculty Engagement Initiative and directed the Innovation Realization Laboratory (IRL) program which matches science, technology, pharmacy, agriculture, and engineering doctoral students with Krannert MBAs to investigate the commercialization potential of the young scientists’ research. Hank is also a member of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship’s Advisory Council. Immediately before coming to the Burton D. Morgan Center in 2005, Hank was senior vice president of Business Alliances and vice president of consumer products, North America, for the Starbucks Coffee Co. He has held CEO positions for two consumer electronics and senior management positions in the chemical, home furnishings, and trade show industries. Hank also operated his own management consulting company for six years and was CEO of an Internet company. Hank earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial management from Purdue in 1968 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1973.
Don Swanson is founder and president of dcVAST, Inc, in Downers Grove, Illinois. dcVAST architects, implements, and manages IT infrastructure for its corporate customers, allowing them to spend more time focusing on business priorities. dcVAST was named one of the CRN magazine “Fast Growth 100 IT Companies” in 2006. Don spends his time working on corporate strategy and brand marketing. Prior to founding dcVAST, Don was vice president of a CAD/CAM software publisher, CIMLINC in Itasca, Illinois, where he managed sales and service in North America. CIMLINC pioneered the engineering workstation and CAD/CAM capabilities for manufacturing. Don began his career in manufacturing with Rockwell International, Graphic Systems Division in Cicero, Illinois, where he was instrumental in the development and implementation of cellular manufacturing processes. Don received his BS degree in industrial engineering from Purdue in 1969. Don is an active volunteer in his church in Naperville, Illinois, and mission work in Slovakia. Don also owns and remotely manages a grain farm in Galesburg, Illinois.
Steve Tolopka is senior principal engineer and director of platform architecture research for Intel’s Corporate Technology Group, responsible for creating and driving technology infrastructure needed to deliver new intrinsic platform capabilities. Dr. Tolopka joined Intel in 1981 as a systems software engineer after earning a PhD in computer science from Purdue University, becoming chief architect of the Intel 80960XA processor’s capability-oriented, fault-tolerant, distributed operating system. His professional background at Intel Labs includes computer supported collaboration, videoconferencing technology, networking technologies including the WinSock 2 specification, usage models and technology enablers for the digital home, and improved PC manageability including the Wired for Management Baseline Specification. Steve sponsors CTG’s diversity agenda with a focus on career paths for technical women and co-chairs the National Center for Women & Information Technology’s Workforce Alliance. Dr. Tolopka holds four U.S. patents and has received two Intel Achievement Awards in the areas of distributed models of computation and PC manageability. Steve earned his MS (1976) and PhD (1981) in computer science from Purdue University. He serves on the Computer Science Partners Board and the Dean’s Leadership Council for the College of Science at Purdue University. Steve plays clarinet with the Portland Community Wind Band and tenor saxophone with the One More Time Around Again Marching Band, Get A Life Marching Band, Second Wind Jazz Ensemble, and the Easily Amused horn band. He has juggled in Australia, Liechtenstein, and a surprisingly large percentage of university talks. To the astonishment of all who know him, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the Purdue University School of Science in April 1999.
Curt Worsey has spent more than 25 years in the technology and management consulting world and recently retired as a partner from Accenture, the world’s leading global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. He is currently assisting non-profit organizations with business strategy, operations, and leadership development. During his tenure at Accenture, Curt assisted clients with technology strategy and business improvement programs in the areas of finance operations and outsourcing, corporate performance management, sales force effectiveness, and the implementation of large-scale enterprise systems. He was one of the firm’s early leaders in re-engineering both finance organizations and the application of balanced scorecards for business performance. He has spent most of his career working with high technology, aerospace, and biotechnology clients. Curt earned his BS in computer science from Purdue University in 1980. He is a 2005 Distinguished Science Alumnus, and served on the computer science building campaign committee as one of its original members. In 2005, he also received the Dean’s Ovation award for outstanding contributions to the College of Science.
Greg Young retired in 2006 as president and chief operating officer of ENSCO Inc. in Falls Church, Virginia, where he led ENSCO’s growth and diversification for 12 years. Since 1980 and prior to becoming president, Greg served in numerous scientific, management and leadership positions within ENSCO. Greg now serves as a member of ENSCO’s board of directors. ENSCO is a $100 million diversified advanced research, development, and information technology company. Before joining ENSCO, Greg served as an analyst in the Office of Scientific Intelligence within the Central Intelligence Agency. He was a scientist and scientific program manager in the Air Force where he worked primarily on nuclear test detection, characterization, and discrimination. He served as the program coordinator of the threshold Test Ban Treaty Data Exchange Exercise and provided technical support to the negotiating team for the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty. He was also involved with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the Directorate of Physical and Geophysical Sciences. He retired from the Air Force Reserves in 1994. He earned his MS in earth and atmospheric sciences from Purdue University in 1974. Greg was named a Distinguished Science Alumnus in 1999, and he received the Dean’s Ovation award for outstanding contributions to the College of Science in 2006. Greg now lives in Prescott, Arizona, where he is writing several technical thriller novels.
Jenny Zimmerly is the CEO and chief financial officer for Zimmerly & Company Incorporated (ZINC). From 1986 to 1992, she was the senior principal and owner of a financial consulting firm Z/M/A/S. Since 1992, she has been CEO and the majority owner of Zimmerly & Co. Inc. (ZINC). Ms. Zimmerly’s line management experiences were gained from 1978 to 1985 when she was vice president and CFO for a Dallas-based conglomerate (Ranch Foods Inc.) with interests in meat packing/canning, importing, gift retailing, cleaners, and restaurants. Ms. Zimmerly has also worked as a budget analyst for the U.S. Navy and as a published research chemist on a National Cancer Institute grant at the University of Virginia. She has over 16 years of active involvement at the officer/board level with the North Texas Food Bank (past president), the Junior League of Dallas (past treasurer), the Parkland Foundation, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas, and the Chi Omega Alumni Association of Dallas (past president). She is a life trustee of the Chi Omega Education and Charity Trust. In addition, she served for several years on the National Strategic Planning Training Team for the Association of Junior Leagues International. She was recently honored by Purdue University as the 2001 recipient of the Alumni Association Citizenship Award. In 1998, she received the Chi Omega of the Year Award for her outstanding public service in Dallas and North Texas. Ms. Zimmerly holds a BS (1969) in chemistry from Purdue and a MBA in finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Andris A. Zoltners is a professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he has been a member of the faculty for more than 30 years. He received his PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University and earned a MS in mathematics from Purdue University in 1969.
Dr. Zoltners has written more than 40 academic articles, edited two books on marketing models and has co-authored the books The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation – How to Design and Implement Plans That Work (AMACOM 2006), Sales Force Design for Strategic Advantage (PALGRAVE 2004) and The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance (AMACOM 2001). He is the co-author of the 2004 winning entry in the annual INFORMS Practice Prize Competition. The paper, “Sales Territory Design: Thirty Years of Modeling and Implementation,”appears in the Summer 2005 issue of Marketing Science. He has spoken at numerous conferences and has taught sales force topics to several thousand executive, MBA, and PhD students. A recent article entitled “Match Your Sales Force Structure to Your Business Life Cycle” appeared in the Harvard Business Review special issue on sales (July–August 2006).
Dr. Zoltners is a founder and co-chairman of ZS Associates, a global sales and marketing consulting firm. Founded in 1983, ZS now serves clients worldwide with more than 900 people across 15 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. The success of ZS was recognized by his induction into the Chicago Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2005. Dr. Zoltners has personally consulted for over 100 companies in over 20 countries. His areas of expertise are sales force strategy; sales force size, structure and deployment; sales force compensation; and sales force effectiveness. In addition to his consulting, he is a frequent speaker on the topic of sales force effectiveness.
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