Advisory Councils

The UT Dallas School of Management (SOM) Advisory Councils' members are drawn from executives, leading professionals and local entrepreneurs who focus on using their skills, company ties and other associations to benefit the school.

In addition to the SOM Advisory Council, several program areas and centers of excellence work with industry advisory groups. Two of these groups with the broadest bases are the Executive Education Advisory Council and the Accounting and Information Management Advisory Council.

SOM Advisory Council

The School of Management enjoys great support and counsel from the business community through its advisory councils. Members of the councils continually interact with the faculty and provide essential feedback to the various programs within the school.

Charles H. Ansley President and CEO Symon	Sydney Smith Hicks, Ph.D. CEO SSHICKS Advisors	Terry W. Price Partner Spencer Stuart

Jeanne Bayless Managing Partner Star Ventures	Jo Johnston President Johnston Public Relations	Terry Rock Partner CenterPoint Ventures

Charles M. Best Alliance Financial Group, Inc.	Richard G. Kenedi Senior Director/General Manager Network Diagnostics Tektronix, Inc.	J. Darren Rodgers President Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas

George Brody Founder, President and CEO GlobeRanger Corporation	Tim Krause Chief Marketing Officer and Senior VP Strategy North America Alcatel-Lucent	Glenda Shelby Vice President of Diversity and Human Resources Accor Hospitality

Alan C. Caslavka Vice President and General Manager Rockwell Collins	Russell A. Labrasca, Jr. Executive VP/ Regional Managing Director Wells Fargo Private Client Services	Masayoshi Shimizu President Shimizu Densetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Terry Conner Partner Haynes and Boone, LLP	Claire A. Lewis-Martin Manager, Partnership Relationship Executive Energy/Power Cisco Systems	Bill Sproull President/CEO Metroplex Technology Business Council

Cecil Edwards Commercial Banking Executive Wachovia Bank, N.A.	Steve Lyle Director, HR Shared Services Texas Instruments Incorporated	Ann K. Utley CFO TextOrder

Walt Ellis Senior HR Manager Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.	Ken Meyers Human Capital-TMT Industry Group Deloitte Consulting LLP	Jim Young Chairman Teleportec
		Senior Active Members
Ted Fredericks President and COO Mohr Partners, Inc.	Ron Nash Partner InterWest Partners	Linda Wertheimer Hart Vice Chairman The Hart Group, Inc.

M. Sam Gilliland President and CEO Sabre Holdings	Paul Pandian President Tech Mahindra (R and D Services) Inc.	Gerald H. Hoag Executive Director The Leadership Center UT Dallas

Ken Goldberg Senior VP, Marketing, Alliances and Corporate Development Intervoice, Inc.	Steve Penson Regional Manager- Austin Commercial Austin Industries	Max D. Hopper Max D. Hopper Associates, Inc.

Ozan Gursel Partner McKinsey and Company, Inc.	Jefry S. Plowman Partner, Assurance and Advisory Services Deloitte	Allan Tomlinson Consultant

Executive Education Advisory Council

Many members of the Executive Education Advisory Council are executives who are alumni of the school's executive programs, while several other members are from companies that have participated in the school's custom-designed executive education programs. The goal of the Executive Education Advisory Council is to provide meaningful, as well as measurable, assistance to program directors and the School of Management at large.

Rich Allen Business Coach Action COACH BusinessCoaching	Brad Hughes Principal Hughes Ventures	Phil Pirkle VP Human Resources United Supermarkets

Charlie Bahr President Bahr International	King Hughes Principal Hughes Ventures	Michele Pomella Senior Development Manager JC Penney

Britt Berrett President/CEO Medical City Dallas Hospital	Varghese Jacob Senior Associate Dean UT Dallas School of Management	Monica Powell Assistant Dean UT Dallas School of Management

Ed Casteel Retired Alcatel USA	Jim Joiner Director UT Dallas Project Management Program	Bob Ressler Cambient Council Chair

Rusty Cone President Alliance Systems	Elizabeth Jones Executive in Residence UT Dallas School of Management	Mahesh S. Shetty CFO North American Technologies Group, Inc.

Terry Conner Partner Haynes and Boone, LLP	Bob Kaiser Senior VP Bank of America	Dennis Simmons President/CEO SWACHA

Kevin Cox VP, State and Community Affairs American Airlines	Sherry Kidd Assistant VP Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas	Om Singla President Automation Image

Deborah Dickinson Program Manager UT Dallas Medical Management Program	Roman Kitka Managing Partner Genesis Campus	Larry Solomon Senior VP Human Resources Cadbury-Schweppes

Peter Dicksson VP/Regional Manager Ericsson, Inc.	Richard Kneipper COO/Founder Provider HealthNet Services, Inc.	David Springate Associate Dean for Executive Education UT Dallas

Doug Eckel Assistant Dean UT Dallas School of Management	Ray Lutz Retired Graduate Dean UT Dallas	Jim Strand VP Financial Operations Avnet, Inc.

Charles Eisemann Investor	Lonnie Martin Consultant	Richard Sunderland Senior VP Finance and CFO Airborn, Inc.

Tom Henderson Director UT Dallas Global Leadership Executive MBA (GLEMBA)	Paul Mason Exec. VP Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, Inc.	Jim Szot Assistant Director Project Management Programs UT Dallas

John Fowler Director UT Dallas Exec. Ed. New Initiatives	John McCracken Director UT Dallas Medical Management Program	David Teegarden President/Chief Medical Officer Trinity Mother Frances Health System

Laura Garrison Director, Strategic Business Development The Home Depot	Diane McNulty Associate Dean UT Dallas School of Management	Jim Watson Associate VP for Technology Development UT Southwestern Medical Center

Suzanne Greever Administrator Mary Shiels Hospital	Hank Mulvihill Principal Mulvihill Asset Management	Nathan White State District Judge

Christine Grubbs Director, Stakeholder Relations North Texas RCIC	Jim Newstead Executive Director UT Dallas Leadership, Organizational Development, and Corporate Programs	Christina Williams Principal Atiara Group

Chris Haire President/CEO Fina Lubricants USA	Rick Nietubicz Principal Plexent	De'Edra Williams Wipro Technologies

James Harvey Principal Consultant JK Harvey Consulting LLC	John Oehike Director, Business Planning Texas Region CocaCola North America	Linus Wright Search Executive/ Educator

Charles Hefner Director, Customer Quality Texas Instruments Incorporated	Michael Oliff Clinical Professor UT Dallas Enterprise Transformation Programs	Vickie Yohe Independent Consultant

Rob Hicks Director UT Dallas Executive Coaching Program	Jay Phillips President/CEO Cerfis Group, Inc.	Jim Young Chairman Teleportec

Accounting and Information Management
Executive Advisory Council

The Accounting and Information Management (AIM) Executive Advisory Council is representative of the public accounting field, which includes not only chief financial officers and chief information officers, but also accounting executives from global corporations and public accounting firms. AIM Executive Advisory Council members ensure that the School of Management programs and curriculum are relevant, preparing students to be valuable members of the companies and firms they join.

George Banks Partner Grant Thornton	J. Randall Johnston Ernst and Young	Mark Russell Partner KPMG, LLP

Tamara Bebb VP and Controller Ericsson, Inc.	Cynthia B. Keith Partner PriceWaterhouseCoopers	Sal Saggese Divisional VP and Chief Accountant JC Penney

Alan Boyd Texas Instruments Incorporated	Jack Lamb Project Manager CORPTAX	Nancy Schultze Shareholder Chapman, Hext and Co

Bill Brown VP, e-Business and Tech Mary Kay Corporation	Alyssa G. Martin Partner Assurance and Risk Services Weaver and Tidwell, LLP	Janet Smith Tax Partner Travis Wolff and Co.

Charles E. Chapman President Chapman, Hext, and Co., P.C.	Mike McClaskey CIO Perot Systems	Charles Thomas, Jr. Director, Financial Analysis Southwest Airlines Co.

Eric Drews Tax Partner KBA Group, LLP	Steve McDowell VP, Director, Corporate Audit Centex	James Youngblood Partner Lane Gorman Truitt

Todd Estes Turner Stone and Co.	Randall O'Hare Partner PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Gwen Gilbert VP and Controller IMC Inc.	Jefry S. Plowman Partner, Assurance and Advisory Services Deloitte

Advisory Councils

SOM Advisory Council

Senior Active Members

Executive Education Advisory Council

Accounting and Information Management Executive Advisory Council

Accounting and Information Management
Executive Advisory Council