Dean's Advisory Council

Mr. Berg is co-founder and chief executive officer of Homrich Berg. Mr. Berg is a member of the Financial Planning Association, North Atlanta Tax Council, the Georgia Planned Giving Council, the Atlanta Police Foundation Board, and the Atlanta Estate Planning Council.

Mr. Berg’s leadership extends beyond the office. Mr. Berg serves on the board of directors for the Andrade Faxon Charities for Children, the board of the “I Have A Dream” Foundation (IHDF), the Leadership Council for the American Diabetes Association, the Corporate Advisory Board for the Georgia Goal Scholarship Program, Inc., the Buckhead Coalition, the Woodruff Arts Center Board of Trustees, Cherokee Town & Country Club Board of Directors, and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council Purdue School of Business.

He is a contributor to the financial media and has been profiled in Financial Planning magazine. Mr. Berg has been quoted on topics related to wealth management and investments in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Investment Advisor, Investment News, Financial Advisor and Investor’s Business Daily, among others. Additionally, Mr. Berg has been a featured commentator on television, radio programs and news features throughout the Southeast.

Mr. Berg was recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of Atlanta’s top financial leaders, first in their 2012 Who’s Who section and as Atlanta’s only representative from an RIA firm in the publication’s Power 50 Banking and Finance list in 2010. He was also recognized as a Wealth Management CEO of the Year finalist in 2019, Barron’s Top Independent Advisor from 2008-2019 and Hall of Fame advisor in 2019, and Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors for high net worth for Atlanta from 2020-2022. Mr. Berg was the recipient of the 2011 HONORS Award from the Financial Planning Association of Georgia.

He graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in management accounting from Purdue University.

Jane Brock-Wilson joined Berkshire Partners in 1991 and became Managing Director in 1994. She has been a director of several of Berkshire's business services, consumer products and industrial management companies.

Ms. Brock-Wilson was formerly a partner at Bain & Co., where she worked with clients on strategic, operational and marketing issues in a variety of industries.

She holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Management from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Beth Brooke serves on the Board of The New York Times Company, (NYSE:NYT), eHealth (NASDAQ:EHTH), Beta Bionics, Tricolor Holdings, and SHEEX, as well as the USOPC, Aspen Institute, Conference Board, the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality, Reed Smith and APCO’s International Advisory Councils, and the IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Formerly, Brooke had a four decade career at EY, was its Global Vice Chair-Public Policy, a member of EY’s Global Board, and global sponsor of Diversity and Inclusion.  In the Clinton Administration, she played roles in the Healthcare and Superfund reform efforts and had tax policy responsibility for insurance and managed care.

Brooke is a recognized global advocate of diversity and inclusion.  She has been named to Forbes "World's 100 Most Powerful Women" list eleven times and is in the LGBTQ Outstanding Hall of Fame. She earned a B.S. degree in Industrial Management and Computer Science from Purdue University where she played intercollegiate basketball and is in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. She founded the Women Athletes Business Network, which helps elite female athletes pivot from success in sport to success in business after their competitive sporting career ends.

Stacey has spent the last 20 years focused on helping people reach their health & fitness goals through body-worn sensors, data, and digital technology.  She has a strong track record of commercial growth via invention, acquisition, partnerships, and organic product development. Stacey has been a Google VP for product, UX, and engineering teams for Google Fit, Wear Operating System and Fitbit.

She was the Vice President, General Manager of adidas Digital Sport, where she led the creation, development and operations of adidas wearable sports electronics and fitness app experiences.

Following a career at DuPont, Stacey founded and served as CEO of Textronics Inc, a pioneer in electro-textiles that was sold to adidas in 2008. She is the co-inventor of 76 patented materials and process technology innovations in wearable electronics, and co-chairs the annual WEAR conference.

Stacey holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MS Industrial Administration with a marketing and operations emphasis from Purdue University.

Linda Clement-Holmes recently retired as Officer and Advisor to the Chairman and Chief Executive at Procter & Gamble. Previously, she was Chief Information Officer for P&G; before that, she served as Global Information and Decision Solutions (IDS) Officer, responsible for building the capability of the Company’s IDS function as well as providing IDS governance oversight.

Ms. Clement-Holmes was a member of P&G’s Global Leadership Council and recently served as the Company’s Chief Diversity Officer. She joined P&G in 1983 as a systems analyst, going on to become a global “executive of firsts” across several disciplines. She was the first African-American senior vice president in the IT function, and the first female African-American senior vice president and president, within P&G. She led the first vision and strategy for P&G’s e-mail system, led the partnership with HP to provide core information technology services, and spearheaded delivery of broad business and employee services to Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. As Chief Diversity Officer, Ms. Clement-Holmes crafted the first company-wide diversity and inclusion strategy and established P&G’s first ever Global Inclusion & Diversity Council, significantly elevating P&G’s Diversity Inc. and Working Mother Magazine rankings.

Ms. Clement-Holmes has been widely recognized for her leadership and business acumen. Recent honors include Purdue University’s Krannert Business Leadership Award and Purdue Old Master, American Business Awards’ Female Executive of the Year, Working Mother’s “Working Mothers of the Year,” YWCA’s Career Woman of Achievement, the First Tees Values award, the Howard University Global Visionary Leadership Award and the Diamond Leadership Award from the IT Senior Management Forum. She has been listed among Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, Uptown Professional’s Top 100 Executives, and Black Enterprise magazine’s Top Executives.

She is active in community, business, and service organizations, including: Board of Directors, Cincinnati Financial Corporation (Audit Committee); IT Senior Management Forum Board of Directors (Executive Protégé Chair); YWCA of Cincinnati Board of Directors and Executive Committee (Board Secretary), Jack & Jill of America – Cincinnati Chapter (Vice President); and Delta Sigma Theta.

Tom is a business and financial executive, with 38 years experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), serving multinational and private equity clients. He has held a number of business leadership roles at PwC,  including Managing Partner of  North Texas, US Human Capital Leader and US Fit for Growth Managing Partner.  Tom served on the leadership team of PwC’s US Chairman. He is a two-term elected member of PwC’s US Board of Partners and Principals, and chaired the Governance and Accounting & Auditing Practices Committees. Tom has served for 27 years as an Audit Partner, Advisory Partner or Senior Relationship Partner on some of PwC’s most prominent clients.

A CPA and financial expert, with strong human capital and governance knowledge, Tom has advised multinational Fortune 500 companies with primary focus in industrial products, manufacturing and technology.  He also has significant experience serving Private Equity clients.  Career and leadership competencies include business strategy and operations, M&A, human capital, inclusion and diversity, international and risk management.

Tom has also served as Board member, Trustee or Advisory Council member on many prominent not-for-profit and educational organizations, including Board Chairman for three organizations and Audit Committee Chair for five organizations.

Tim is currently Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Eli Lilly and Company. He was previously Vice President and Information Officer, Medicines Development Information & Digital Solutions, where he was responsible for delivering IT strategies and solutions for research & development business areas. Initiatives delivered within his portfolio have been recognized nationally for digital innovation and visionary leadership, including the 2020 CIO 100 Award, 2020 FutureEdge 50 Award, and the Bio-IT World Best Practices Award in Clinical Research.

Tim began his career with Lilly in 1990 as a Systems Analyst and has held several positions in the Global Information Technology organization supporting US and Global sales & marketing, manufacturing, and research & development.  In addition, he has held business roles in the Human Resources and Sales & Marketing components, including P&L responsibility as District Sales Leader for the Lilly Osteoporosis Specialty Business Unit in the southeastern part of the United States. 

Tim is a passionate advocate for STEM youth programs and enjoys giving to support his community.  He currently serves as Executive Champion for BDPA Indianapolis and on the board of directors for the TechPoint Youth Foundation and the national BDPA Education & Technology Foundation.  Tim is also currently a board member with the Krenicki Center for Business Analytics & Machine Learning at the Purdue School of Management.  He has previously served on computer science corporate advisory boards for Purdue University, North Carolina State A&T University, and Howard University. 

Tim was previously honored as one of “40 Under 40” by the Indianapolis Business Journal and with the “Top 50 Under 50 Young Corporate Executives Award” by Diversity MBA Magazine.  Tim was recently honored by the Center for Leadership Development for his achievement in science and technological disciplines and with the “2019 Distinguished Alumni Award” from Purdue University.  He is also proud to have been part of the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF) Executive Academy Cohort 2018.

Tim earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management and Computer Science from Purdue University and his Master of Management (MBA) from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.  In addition to digital corporate leadership, he is a published author, former entrepreneur, Biblical finance enthusiast, and an active philanthropist.  Tim is married and the father of two sons.

Dan Frate is a Strategic Advisor for Falls River Group and Boston Consulting Group. Most recently, Dan served as Group President for ACI Worldwide's (NASDAQ: ACIW) cloud business. ACI Worldwide is a software company that provides mission critical real time payment solutions to the world's largest banks, merchants and billers. Dan led the transformation of the cloud business by dramatically improving margins and, at the same time, putting the business on a growth trajectory. During his time at ACI he led the successful integration of several acquisitions including the largest in the company's history.

Prior to ACI Dan spent over twenty five years in banking. During his banking career he led retail products and digital banking for PNC Bank (NYSE: PNC). Dan served as Vice Chairman at both National City Bank and US Bank leading the Retail Bank and Payment Services business respectively. He was President of Bank One's Card business which is now part of JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM).

In addition, Dan has led digital transformation, retail credit, and customer analytics for consumer and small business banking. Throughout his career Frate has served on nonprofit boards including current board service at the Harry Chapin Food Bank in Southwest Florida. Dan was also a board member at his alma mater - John Carroll University. Currently he is a member of the Dean's Council at Purdue University where he earned his graduate degree.

Rich Freeland retired as the President and Chief Operating Officer for Cummins Inc., a Fortune 160 Company that is the largest independent manufacturer of engines and related components in the world with operations in over 190 countries and territories and 46,000 employees. In his role as President and Chief Operating Officer, Freeland oversaw all daily operations to ensure Cummins meets financial, customer and operating commitments.

Freeland started his career at Cummins in 1979 as a foreman at the Cummins Parts Distribution Center in Columbus, Indiana. Over the years, Rich took on a number of key roles at the Company including Plant Manager of the Diesel ReCon Plant in Memphis, Tennessee; Plant Manager of the Columbus Engine Plant in Columbus, Indiana; Vice President and General Manager of Engine Business Purchasing, Aftermarket and Fuel Systems Business and President of both the Cummins Distribution Business and Components Business. Most recently Freeland served as President of the Engine Business overseeing the development, manufacturing, marketing and sales.

A native of Indiana, Freeland attended Purdue University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management from the School of Management. In 1987, he earned an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Freeland serves on the boards of directors for the National Association of Manufacturers, American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), Purdue University’s School of Management, and the Bartholomew County United Way.  Freeland serves as a board director for Valvoline and also serves as a board director on the Cummins Inc. Board. Freeland and his wife have two daughters and reside in Columbus, Indiana, the home of Cummins’ global headquarters.

Christian A. Garcia has more than 30 years of financial leadership experience in the industrial services, automotive electronics, energy, software and business equipment industries. Mr. Garcia served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BrandSafway, a leading provider of industrial service solutions to commercial, industrial and infrastructure markets, from 2020 to 2023.

Prior to joining BrandSafway, Mr. Garcia was Chief Financial Officer of Weatherford International, an oilfield services company, and served as Chief Financial Officer of Visteon Corporation, a leading provider of automotive cockpit electronics. Previously, Mr. Garcia served as acting Chief Financial Officer of Halliburton, a leading energy company, where he progressed through a variety of leadership positions including Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer, and Senior Vice President of Investor Relations.

Mr. Garcia currently serves as a board member of Tetra Technologies Inc. (NYSE: TTI). Between 2017 and 2019, Mr. Garcia served as board member and chairman of the audit committee for Keane Group.

Mr. Garcia has been consistently selected to the All-America Executive Team by Institutional Investor magazine based on a survey of more than 1,300 security analysts and investment professionals. In 2016, Mr. Garcia was ranked as one of the top CFOs in the Oil Equipment & Services Industry. He was awarded “IR Professional of the Year” in 2011 given to the top investor relations professional in the United States.

In 2020, Mr. Garcia has been selected as one of the Top 50 Financial Leaders by the National Diversity Council.

Mr. Garcia has a bachelor's degree in business economics from the University of the Philippines, and a master's degree in management from Purdue University.

Craig Gunckel is the Chief Executive Officer of Iconex, a provider of innovative business solutions. Previously he was president of Enterprise Solutions after serving as executive vice president of Merchandising Displays and Folding Carton for WestRock. He also held the position of executive vice president and general manager of Merchandising Displays for RockTenn. Mr. Gunckel spent 21 years at WestRock, serving in a variety of sales and leadership roles across the company’s merchandising displays and folding carton businesses.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership from Purdue University.

Breck F. Hanson joined Associated Bank in September 2010 as executive vice president, head of commercial real estate. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing and growing Associated Bank’s commercial real estate presence in the Midwest. In late 2014 Mr. Hanson took on the additional responsibilities of Chicago Market President. In January 2016, he was named the bank's Vice Chairman. He retired effective January 1, 2018. 

Mr. Hanson's career spanned 40 years of experience in the banking and commercial real estate industries. He served as regional real estate executive at Bank of America, where he oversaw all real estate transactions in the Midwest. For 20 years previously, Mr. Hanson served as executive vice president at LaSalle Bank, where he managed a national commercial real estate lending program.

Mr. Hanson holds an MBA in Marketing from Michigan State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Purdue University. He serves on the board of directors at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and is President of Board of Trustees for Rainbows (for All God’s Children). Mr. Hanson also serves on the advisory boards of Morgan Harbor Construction company (a Chicago-based contractor) and Oppidan (a Minneapolis-based commercial real estate developer).

Mr. Hanson and his wife, Nancy, reside in Chicago. They are the parents of four children and grandparents of 10 grandchildren.

Kimberly Hauer is Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at SC Johnson.  Kim joined SCJ in December 2016 as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer.  She leads the company’s global HR function and is responsible for human resources policies and workplace practices around the world.

Kim joined SCJ from Caterpillar, where she was Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer since 2011. Prior to that, during her nearly 20-year career at Caterpillar, she held a wide array of HR roles including international assignments in Switzerland and Belgium.

Kim has been honored by HRO Today magazine by receiving the 2016 CHRO of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award, recognition of her accomplishments both internally to the company and externally within the HR field.  Kim is a Board member of the HR Policy Association, Core Construction and was a founding member of the American Health Policy Institute. She also serves as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Purdue University.  She has a bachelor’s degree in management, with emphasis in human resources, from Purdue University and has been certified as a Human Resources Professional.

Kim currently resides in Lake Bluff, Illinois, with her husband, Jason, and their two daughters.

Jim Hayes is retired from Accenture and currently working as an independent consultant. Mr. Hayes held several leadership roles during his Accenture tenure, including: Managing Director of Alliances; Managing Director for Platform Capability in India, China and the Philippines; Managing Director of the Global Oracle Practice; and Managing Director of the North America SAP Practice. In these roles, he oversaw the development of critical selling and delivery assets across the SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, SaaS vendors, and custom advanced technology capability. Mr. Hayes and his team played a key role in selling and delivering high-value enterprise software applications to Accenture's clients around the world. He was charged with expanding Accenture's thought leadership related to the application software landscape and with building delivery capabilities.

Mr. Hayes earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Management/Economic Honors from Purdue University in 1984. He has been involved in several community service efforts including: Global Volunteers, Daybreak Transitional Housing, St. Patrick's Residence for the Aged and the Alive Teen Center in Naperville.

Mike Heard is the Chief Operating Officer of Davies Life & Health. He supervises Davies Life & Health operations & technology resources deployed to provide expert long-term care and disability administration and claims management services for major insurance carriers. He leads over 400 committed life and health professionals to provide solutions that align with each insurer’s unique objectives to ensure professional, timely, diligent and accurate policyholder service administration and claims management backed by systems that are flexible, customizable and scalable.

Heard, who joined Davies in May 2024, has over 25 years of life and health insurance experience, with particular expertise in long-term care insurance (LTC) and other health products. Mike joined Davies from the National Organization of Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Associations (NOLHGA), where he served as Chief Operating Officer.  He also worked as a senior officer with GE Financial/Genworth and, more recently, with CNO Financial Group, a domestic life insurance company based in Carmel, Indiana.

In 2013, Heard joined CNO Financial Group in Carmel, Indiana, as Senior Vice President, where he was responsible for insurance operations for more than 3 million customers and over $2 billion in benefits transactions annually. In 2017, Heard was appointed President of Washington National Insurance Company, a leading provider of supplemental health and life insurance, serving 1 million policyholders and 25,000 employer groups through 2,000 independent agents. In 2020, he was appointed President of the Worksite Division of CNO where he led the division through two acquisitions and the global pandemic.

Heard attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he earned both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering. He currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council at the Daniels School of Business at Purdue and is a member of the Board of Beyond Monumental, the organizer of the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon.  He also is a retired U.S. Air Force officer serving in both the active and reserve forces, including a tour at the Pentagon.

Marc Hochman is a Partner with Kearney and has been with the firm for more than 20 years.  In addition to client work across a diverse portfolio of industries (Automotive, Consumer Products and Retail, Energy & Process Industries, Financial Institutions, and Healthcare) Marc also serves as the Global Co-Lead of Kearney Analytics and President of Cervello, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kearney that serves as a trusted advisor to blue-chip clients, earning a stellar reputation as a market leader in agile analytics, CRM, enterprise performance management, data management, and business intelligence.  In addition, Marc chairs Kearney’s US Investment Committees and is the Americas Lead for the Belonging at Kearney Leadership Team which helps propel the firm’s DIAL (Diversity, Inclusion, Apprenticeship and Leadership) agenda.

Prior to being named President of Cervello, Marc served as Chief Operating Officer for A.T. Kearney Solutions, was a member of the Americas Leadership Team, and led the firm’s global Staffing & Operations function.

Before joining A.T. Kearney, Marc spent 12 years working for Air Products & Chemicals and American Cyanamid where he held positions in cost engineering, applied research & development, energy management, finance, and procurement.

Marc is a frequent speaker at industry and university events on topics such as the future of procurement & supply management, procurement transformation, building the brand of procurement, and talent management.

Marc holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Management (Strategy and Finance), both from Purdue University.  He served as President of the Purdue School of Management Alumni Association from 2013-2019 and is a member of Purdue’s President’s Council.

Tom Howatt retired as Chairman of the Board of Wausau Paper in April of 2014 after a 34 year association with the company, having served as President & Chief Executive Officer from 2000-2011 and as Chairman from 2012-2014.

Mr. Howatt most recently served as the Chairman of the Board of the Badger Institute, a conservative think tank headquartered in Milwaukee, WI from 2013-2021. He also previously served as Chairman of the Board of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Chairman of the Board of the Wisconsin Paper Council, President of the University of Stevens Point Paper Science Foundation, as well as on the board of directors of numerous business, civic and charitable organizations.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management and a Master of Science degree in Management, both from the School of Management at Purdue University.

Jay Johnson first obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University in 1987. He then started his MBA at Ohio State before accepting an opportunity to move to Japan while working for Honda. Upon his return, Mr. Johnson entered Purdue University, where he completed his MBA (MSIA) in 1995.

In addition to these degrees, he has furthered his education by undertaking certificate programs in executive education at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

Mr. Johnson’s career spans almost thirty years in the automotive and trucking industries, with over 40 percent of that time spent overseas. He first joined Honda of America as an industrial engineer in 1987, followed by other roles in industrial, manufacturing and specification engineering. In 1992 he moved to Honda Japan, where he was a launch liaison engineer and later took a role in charge of production planning and control.

After completing graduate school Mr. Johnson joined Chrysler, where he worked from 1995 until 1999 in a variety of positions, including international supply chain manager and material superintendent. With the formation of Daimler Chrysler in 1999, he then took on a pivotal role as a post-merger integration supply chain manager.

Within the Daimler Chrysler group, Mr. Johnson moved to Japan again from 2001 to 2004, where he acted as the global logistics supply executive general manager under the COO’s restructuring team for Mitsubishi Motors. From 2004 to 2005, he returned to the USA and was the procurement director for MOPAR, followed by a return to Japan for four and a half-year role at Mitsubishi Fuso trucks from 2006 to 2010 as global head of procurement and then global head of logistics.   From 2010 until his retirement Mr. Johnson was the general manager for aftermarket parts distribution for Daimler Trucks North America.

Gayle Johnston is the President of CuraScript Specialty Distribution, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Express Scripts. CuraScript SD offers the benefits of Express Scripts' sister company, Accredo^®, a specialty pharmacy, while giving healthcare practitioners seamless access to essential therapies and customized business solutions. Prior to CuraScript, Ms. Johnston was the General Manager for Marketing and Operations at Baxter Healthcare and the President of Thin Film Technology at Bausch & Lomb, Inc. 

Ms. Johnston has a Bachelor of Science in Biology/Microbiology and an MBA, both from Purdue University.

John Krenicki, Jr. joined CD&R in 2013 after a 29-year career at the General Electric Company and serves as an operating partner on the Industrials team. He also leads the internal processes related to the firm’s operationally focused value creation, best practice sharing, risk, and talent recruitment initiatives. He currently serves as chairman for CD&R portfolio companies Artera Services, Brand Industrial Services, and Cornerstone Building Brands. He previously served as chairman of ServiceMaster, CHC Group, and Wilsonart.

Mr. Krenicki is a former vice chairman of GE and former president and CEO of GE Energy. At GE Energy, his responsibilities included oversight of GE’s $50 billion revenue oil & gas, power & water, and energy management businesses, which employed more than 100,000 people in more than 165 countries. Mr. Krenicki held several leadership roles with GE prior to leading GE Energy, including president and CEO of GE Plastics and GE Transportation. Mr. Krenicki also serves as an independent director of Devon Energy Corporation and is a member of the National Petroleum Council.

Mr. Krenicki and his wife, Donna, made major gifts to establish the Krenicki Center for Business Analytics & Machine Learning, the John and Donna Krenicki Directorship of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience and the Krenicki Family Directorship in Inflammation, Immunology, and Infectious Disease. These institutes pursue research to alleviate suffering associated with trauma, disease or disorders of the brain and nervous system and the diagnosis and treatment of many of the world's most common diseases. 

Marshall Larsen is a member of the Board of Directors of United Technologies Corporation. He previously was Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of Goodrich Corporation. In July 2012, UTC acquired Goodrich, which was combined with Hamilton Sundstrand to create the UTC Aerospace Systems business unit.

Mr. Larsen joined Goodrich in 1977, and held various positions, including Operations Analyst, Director of Planning and Analysis, Director of Product Marketing, Assistant to the President, and General Manager of many segments of the company's aerospace businesses. He also was Chairman of the Charlotte Regional Partnership and a Director of Lowes, in addition to serving on the boards of Aerospace Industries Association and General Aviation Manufacturers Association.

Mr. Larsen earned an undergraduate degree from the United States Military Academy and a Master of Science in Industrial Administration degree from Purdue University.

Rene is currently President of RRLCapital, LLC. a venture capital company which invests in business startups. He also serves on the executive committee of the Tamiami Angel Fund located in Naples, Florida which invests in business startups.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Wellbox and SafeKeeping two of the nearly 30 companies where he has invested.

Rene retired as Senior Vice President -Human Resources for Wyeth in 2008. Wyeth has 55,000 employees worldwide and is in the prescription pharmaceutical business, over the counter pharmaceuticals, and animal health products business with annual revenue in 2008 exceeding $24 billion.  As the Chief Human Resource Officer, he was responsible for the planning and implementation of worldwide employee policies and programs. Rene served on the executive management, operations, finance, law/regulatory, human resources benefits, retirement, and savings plan committees of the corporation. Rene worked closely with Wyeth’s Board of Directors on executive succession and compensation, and corporate governance practices.

Prior to joining Wyeth in 1994, Rene was employed by Eli Lilly and Company for 24 years where he held a variety of executive positions including President of Eli Lilly Canada, Executive Director of Corporate Affairs, and Executive Director of Human Resources for Eli Lilly’s pharmaceutical business.

Rene was a visiting professor at Purdue’s School of Management, where he taught in the MBA program following his retirement from Wyeth.

Mr. Lewin graduated from Purdue with a BS in Industrial Management and received his MBA from Butler University.

Rene and his wife Karen are trustees of the Rene and Karen Lewin Charitable Fund from which they direct their philanthropy particularly focused on education and hunger relief.  They have endowed the Rene and Karen Leadership Scholarship at Purdue University’s School of Management which has supported 3 to 5 scholarships a year to students attending the School of Management and have supported the Dr. Cornell A. Bell Business Opportunity Program for underrepresented minorities attending Purdue University's School of Management.

Rene and Karen live in Zionsville, Indiana and Naples, Florida.  They have nine grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

Randall is the Managing Director for Cleveland Avenue, LLC; an investment firm headquartered in Chicago. He has over 30 years of finance and operations experience that includes Fortune 50 companies such as GE, Wells Fargo and Anthem. Randall has held various executive leadership roles, including: Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Executive Vice President and Chief Auditor, Managing Director of Corporate Development, and Chief Financial Officer.

Prior to joining Cleveland Avenue, he served his alma mater as Executive Director for the Krannert Professional Development Center (KPDC). Randall has also led two entrepreneurial ventures, s2f worldwide, LLC and Exodus Commercial Capital, LLC.

He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in General Management/Accounting and MBA in Finance from Purdue University. Randall and his wife, Helen, reside in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Marge Magner was a founding member and Partner of Brysam.  She has over 30 years of operating and deal experience in the consumer financial services sector.

Prior to the formation of Brysam, Dr. Magner served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Consumer Group at Citigroup. In this position, she was responsible for the company's operations serving consumers through retail banking, credit cards and consumer finance, as well as for finance, credit and other staff functions. She was named to the Fortune magazine list of Most Powerful Women in Business from 2001-2004 (#5), Forbes magazine list of World's Most Powerful Women (#19 in 2004), and U.S. Banker's list of the Most Powerful Women in Banking (#1 in 2004), as well as U.S. Banker's list of the Top 25 Non-Bank Women in Finance (#11 in 2008), among others.

Dr. Magner has also served as a director of Accenture Ltd and Gannett Company, Inc., as well as on the board of directors of the Brooklyn College Foundation and Millennium Promise. Dr. Magner holds a B.S. degree in psychology from Brooklyn College and a Master of Science in Industrial Administration degree and Honorary Doctorate from the School of Management, Purdue University.

Patrick is Senior Vice President and Chief HR Officer for PepsiCo Foods North America.  He is a 25-year veteran of PepsiCo with a broad range of leadership experience in beverages and foods.  He joined the Frito-Lay division in 1996 as HR Manager at the Allen Park, Michigan manufacturing site worked through various assignments in locations across the United States. 

In 2008 Patrick joined Pepsi Cola North America where he supported the acquisition of its two largest bottlers, a $7.8 billion transaction that made PepsiCo the largest food and beverage company in North America.  In 2010 Patrick returned to Frito-Lay North America as leader of the HR team for Sales and Supply Chain and in 2012 became Chief HR Officer for Frito-Lay North America.  In 2019 the Quaker foods business was added to his accountabilities.

Before joining PepsiCo, Patrick worked for Exxon USA based in New Orleans, Louisiana and developed his HR acumen in Organizational Development, Labor and HR generalist roles. 

Patrick holds bachelors and masters degrees in organizational communication from Purdue University and is originally from Hobart, Indiana.  He is an avid Boilermaker and Saints fan and enjoys travel, gardening, cooking, and football.  He serves on advisory councils for the School of management and the LGBTQ Center at Purdue and is a member of the board of the Sabra Dipping Company.  He and his husband, David Talley, reside in North Texas and remain active in the Dallas and New Orleans communities.

Parrish is currently CEO of Parrish Restaurants, Ltd, which owns and operates 26 restaurants in Dallas and surrounding areas. The Dallas Business Journal ranks his company the 2^nd Largest Black Owned Firm in North Texas in 2021. In 2017, Parrish received the Dallas Business Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Parrish Restaurants, Ltd consistently makes the Black Enterprise BE 100 as one of the Top 100 Black Owned Businesses in the United States.

Roland’s $2M Leadership Gift supported the renovation of the former Management School Library at Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana. It was opened and renamed the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics in 2012. It’s the first facility at Purdue to be named after an African American.

Also, his gift of philanthropy led to the building of the Rev. John and Marie Parrish Medical Clinic in Fort Portal, Uganda. The clinic, which opened in May of 2016, serves 6,000 orphans per year, and is named in memory of his parents.

Parrish serves on the Board of Trustees of Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee, where the completion of the Parrish Career and Development Center opened this year.

Also, he currently serves on the NBA Dallas Mavericks Advisory Board, the Salvation Army Advisory Board, MLB Texas Rangers Foundation – A Heart for Kids and the Texas Restaurant Association.

Parrish is the 2^nd largest investor for the restructuring of the Re-Imaging Red Bird Project which will bring a Marriot Hotel and hundreds of jobs to the Red Bird community. Also, it will include almost 250,000 sq ft of medical/clinical services to the southern sector (Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center). It was the Dallas Business Journal’s, 2020 Best Real Estate Deal of the Year.

Roland received his BS and MBA from Purdue’s Krannert School of Business. As a scholar and athlete, he consistently made the Dean’s List, was a 2-time MVP of the Purdue track team and selected by his teammates to be Captain his senior year.

He and wife, Jewel, have two adult children. Son, Ro (UNT-BA 02’) and Daughter, Jade (Purdue-BA 12’ and SMU-MBA 22’).

Professor David J. Reibstein is the William S. Woodside Professor and Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.  He was previously on the faculty at Harvard Business School, and a visiting Professor at Stanford Business School, and INSEAD in France.

Professor Reibstein is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Marketing Association and the Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute.  He has served on the board of the Philadelphia Ballet and the Fleischer Art Institute.  He is currently the chair and co-founder of Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM.)

Professor Reibstein has been researching the economic impact of the brands of nations. In January 2016, he released the inaugural Best Countries report at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In partnership with U.S. News & World Report and WPP’s BAV Consulting, the Best Countries report ranked 80 top nations based on the perceptions of 20,000 global participants.  He will soon be releasing the sixth edition of the Best Countries was released in Washington, D.C.

Professor Reibstein’s research focuses on competitive marketing strategies, marketing metrics, branding, and product line decisions, among other issues. His research on competitive marketing strategies addresses competitors’ reactions to marketing actions, offering companies insight into ways to anticipate these reactions and use them as a part of strategizing. His marketing metrics work has focused on linking marketing metrics to financial consequences, resulting in his widely read book Marketing Metrics: The Manager’s Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance. He has authored numerous articles appearing in major marketing journals, including Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Harvard business Review, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Marketing and Journal of Consumer Research.

He was the host for the weekly radio show Measured Thoughts on Wharton Business Radio, Channel 132 on SiriusXM.

Professor Reibstein received his Ph.D. from Purdue University and his B.S. and B.A. degrees from the University of Kansas.

Kirk Skaugen is Executive Vice President of Lenovo and President, Infrastructure Solutions Group. As a member of Lenovo's executive staff, Mr. Skaugen is responsible for growing Lenovo's global footprint across more than 180 countries for servers, storage, networking, Lenovo’s edge portfolio and related software and professional services. Under his leadership Lenovo's server business has become one of the fastest growing x86 server OEMs in the world, according to Gartner.

Before Lenovo, Mr. Skaugen held advancing positions with Intel Corporation, finally as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Client Computing Group.  Mr. Skaugen has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University.

Scott Strubel leads the Americas Partner Organization for Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI. His organization is responsible for indirect sales revenues through an external channel of resellers and distributors across the countries of the Americas.

He joined Darktrace from Hitachi Vantara, where he was the chief commercial officer and led the worldwide commercial sales organization and the organizations in charge of commercial customers, partners and ecosystem relationships. He also led the support renewals organization and the shared services organizations with call centers in 8 cities around the world. Strubel launched an inside sales organization in year one and grew commercial revenues with that organization by 60% YoY in year two.

Prior to Hitachi Vantara, Strubel was at Commvault where he led indirect channel revenues driven through reseller and distribution partners globally. In that role, Strubel’s teams drove partner revenue growth through joint solution offerings that increased value to both partners and customers. The reseller and distribution teams built and executed scalable partner programs that enabled Commvault’s data protection platform and solutions.

Prior to Commvault, Strubel was the VP of the Americas Partner Organization for NetApp. In this capacity, he was responsible for a $2.5B indirect channel working with NetApp’s partners throughout the Americas. He also led the Americas Inside Sales organization and a $1.6B FlexPod converged infrastructure business for the Americas.

Also while at NetApp, he created and led worldwide field operations for management software. Over his time in this role, he grew software revenues from $20M to $150M. Strubel launched sales teams for software in Europe and Asia and had responsibility for NetApp’s global sales/presales, channel, and alliance teams channel selling storage management software via all routes to market.

Before joining NetApp in 2010, Strubel was the Vice President of Channels and Alliances for the Americas and U.S. Public Sector at HP Software. In that role, he was responsible for HP’s software revenues via indirect channels. Strubel led the HP sales organizations responsible for all revenue through distribution, resellers, ISVs, OEMs, systems integrators and outsourcers for the HP Software business. He led the creation of a new partner program and was responsible for a partner-delivered professional services business.

Prior to leading channels and alliances, Strubel was the Region Director for the West and Central regions of the U.S. for HP Software. He was part of a founding management team selected to launch HP Software and led all field operations for 34 states in the U.S. He began his career with HP in 1983 as part of a team that launched HP’s first personal computer.

Strubel received an International Executive MBA from Purdue University’s Daniels School of Business and a BS in Business from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Julie Wainwright is an e-commerce pioneer whose latest venture came to her as an epiphany while shopping in a brick-and-mortar consignment store, an industry she felt was ripe for reinvention. She founded The RealReal in June 2011, bringing luxury consignment online and into the modern world with a digital marketplace for authenticated luxury consignment. In that time the company has changed the way people buy and sell high-end luxury across all categories. In addition, Wainwright raised sizable venture capital funding, built a membership of millions, sold millions of items to date and took The RealReal public in 2019 as one of 20 women in history to found and lead a company to an IPO. The company is pioneering sustainability efforts in the luxury space as well. In addition to sustainability partnerships with Gucci, Burberry and Stella McCartney, it is the first luxury member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s CE100 USA and the first resale member of the UN Climate Change's Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action.

Wainwright has been at the helm of leading tech companies for more than 20 years, notably as CEO of Reel.com in 1997 and Pets.com in 1999. She has received several prestigious industry awards and accolades since launching The RealReal including: Entrepreneur’s 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs, Fast Company’s Most Creative People, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Inc. Magazine’s 100 Female Founders List, Retail Innovator of the Year, and Business of Fashion’s BoF 500.

Michael Woronoff, a transactional partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, has been recognized as a top M&A and Capital Markets lawyer by The Legal 500 United States since 2007. For over three decades, he has advised some of the leading private equity firms in their most complex transactions spanning a wide variety of sectors. In addition, he is a trusted advisor to a number of senior PE fund managers, entrepreneurs, and family-owned businesses. The Daily Journal has named him nine times as one of the top 100 lawyers in California.

Mr. Woronoff has been lead counsel in acquisitions and dispositions by, among others, Apollo Global, Ares Management, Freeman Spogli, The Gores Group, Great Hill, The Jordan Companies, Leonard Green, LightBay Capital, Oaktree, Parthenon, SilverLake, and Platinum Equity. His notable transactions include the sales of the Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra Estates (two of the first large scale transactions to monetize a celebrity’s name and likeness); the acquisitions of MGM Studios, Hannah-Barbera, GNC, and Neiman Marcus; and the innovative IPO of Ares Management (which became a publicly traded partnership), and subsequent conversion of Ares to a C-corporation, the first time a publicly traded investment firm made the switch.

Mr. Woronoff is a member of the board of directors of Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE: ARE). He has also served on the boards of directors of several private companies, including AccessDNA, TransDimension, and u-Nav Microelectronics.

He is a member of the Board of Governors of Cedars-Sinai, the Board of Trustees (and Chair of the Finance Committee) of the Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation, and the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business at Purdue University. For over 20 years, Mr. Woronoff has been an adjunct at UCLA's School of Law, where he developed and teaches the popular course “Venture Capital and the Start-Up Company.”

Previously, Mr. Woronoff was a partner at Proskauer Rose, head of Proskauer's Los Angeles office, co-head of its international Private Equity/M&A group, and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Prior to Proskauer, he co-founded Shelter Capital Partners, a Southern California-based private equity fund investing in technology and technology-enabled businesses at all stages of development. Prior to Shelter, he was a transactional partner at Skadden, Arps.