BMEN.TULANE.EDU - Key Persons
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- Dean
- Director of Facilities
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- Staff Scientist / Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President and CEO / CASe Global Partners, Inc.
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- Research Scientist / Cell and Molecular Biology
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- Program Coordinator / Physics and Engineering Physics
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Senior Staff Engineer ( Ret. ) ExxonMobil
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- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President, Global Deployment and Partner Services
Bob Feiner joined Dell Technologies in 1999 and serves as Senior Vice President of Dell Technologies Deployment and Partner Services. He leads a global organization that supports Dell Technologies' customers in more than 140 countries. His team of 3,000+ provide services to customers throughout their life cycle including configuration services, installations and deployments, managed services, on-site support, and asset recycling and resale. As the leader of Dell Technologies Deployment and Partner Services organization, he is responsible for managing a $1 billion business.
Bob is also the global co-chair for True Ability. True Ability is Dell's Employee Resource Group for team members impacted by special needs and/or disabilities. In 2015, Bob was recognized as the Springboard Consulting North America Disability Champion of the Year.
His prior experiences at Dell Technologies include leading various field services teams, managing technical support centers, and building the first of what would become six global service command centers.
Prior to Dell, Bob was a management consultant in Ernst & Young's supply chain management practice. He also held a variety of roles in the energy industry. Bob has a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas-Austin, 1997 and has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University, 1991.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Owner / Vista Propane Company
Robert (Bob) Marshall was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and attended Tulane University on a football scholarship where he earned a B.S. in Geology in 1972. During this time he played in the Tulane win of the 1970 Liberty Bowl game, the first Tulane bowl team since 1940. After graduation, he received a M.S. in Geology from University of New Orleans in 1974.
His professional career as a petroleum geologist began with Getty Oil Company in New Orleans and then in Midland, Texas. He also worked as a petroleum geologist for Florida Gas Exploration Company in Midland. After company employment, he began his career as a self-employed independent petroleum geologist in West Texas and New Mexico. He formed and was president of Permian Resources, Inc., and later, Vice President of Stanolind Oil Company. His responsibilities included management of geologic exploration projects, management of company and contract employees in accounting, land, engineering, and dealing with federal and state government regulators. Although these companies were initially small in size, they both sustained significant growth in their oil and gas reserves from an increase activity in acquisitions and drilling new projects. Both companies were later sold to publicly-held companies. He is also an owner of Vista Propane Company, Bruno and Marshall Investments, and Permian Services Co., LLC, a well service company in West Texas.
Mr. Marshall is a licensed as a Certified Petroleum Geologist by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG); a licensed and registered Professional Geoscientist of The State of Texas, member of the West Texas Geological Society (WTGS); the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES); and, the Permian Basin Landman Association (PBLA).
He is married to Janice, also a New Orleans native, and they have 2 children, Robert Marshall and Jessica Ngo.
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- Company Leader & Project Manager
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- Business Development Director
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Laboratory Research Technician / Psychology
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- Senior Administrative Program Coordinator / Mathematics
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Partner / Stanley, Flanagan & Reuter
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President and CEO / OGRS, LLC
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- Accountant II / Psychology
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President and CEO / Kelly Services, Inc.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Senior Vice President ( Ret. ) Southern Company
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Vice President, Channel Sales / Azul Systems, Inc.
As an imagineer for big data and analytics, Chris' first love is helping organizations envision and realize the endless possibilities of what can be done with next-generation technology. He is a senior business development and technology executive with over 25 years experience in startup and Fortune 100 technology companies. Chris excels in driving vision, innovation and communication to create momentum across diverse organizations. Specialties include: big data analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, strategic and meaningful business partnerships, channel sales programs and management, and executive coaching.
Chris holds a BS-CS from Tulane University, and has been a member of the Board of Advisors for several years. Chris also serves on the boards of several startup, commercial and recreational investment partnerships and companies, is a fan of Santa Ynez Syrah, and is an avid traveler and outdoorsman. He is based from an ecologically diverse ranch near Grass Valley, California.
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- Secretary
- Senior Executive
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Executive Vice President and Project Executive ( Ret. ) ExxonMobil
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- Research Scientist / Chemistry
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- Program Coordinator / Center for K - 12 STEM Education
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- Executive
- Member of the Emeritus
- Executive Director / Commercial Operations
Cristina Carlis is a biotechnology and pharmaceutical executive. She joined Amgen in 2006 and has held various roles in marketing, sales, and commercial operations. In her current role, she is Executive Director, Commercial Operations for Latin America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Her responsibilities include maximizing patient access to in-line brands and advancing pipeline assets in the region, across the generic/biosimilars and innovative portfolios. Previous roles at Amgen include Global Commercial Lead in the Nephrology/General Medicine team and Sales Manager for the Nephrology Business Unit in Southern California and Hawaii.
Prior to Amgen, Cristina worked at Pfizer in New York for 12 years. At Pfizer she held commercial roles of increased responsibility in both US and International, culminating with the brand leadership of Lipitor in the US organization.
Cristina holds a Bachelor of Science from Tulane (Newcomb '92) and Masters of Public Health from Columbia University in New York City. Originally from Panama, she lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband Scott (A&S '91) and two children.
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- President
- Immediate past President / President, Pellerin Laundry Machinery
- New Orleans Vice President / President, Pellerin Laundry Machinery
- President - Elect / President, Pellerin Laundry Machinery
- President / President, Pellerin Laundry Machinery
- Secretary / President, Pellerin Laundry Machinery
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- CEO & Owner / Waldman and Associates
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- Lab Supervisor I / Physics and Engineering Physics
- Research Scientist / Micro / Nanofabrication Cleanroom
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- Program Manager / Center for K - 12 STEM Education
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- Consultant
- Member of the Emeritus
Dave has over 30 years of experience in commercial product development in the field of lasers and nonlinear optical systems. Since 2006, he has been an independent consultant. Prior to that, he lead commercial product development programs at several small- and medium-sized companies.
Dave has substantial experience taking leading-edge research from university laboratories and converting it into commercial products.
He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Tulane University in 1974, M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1975, and PhD in electrical engineering from Colorado State University in 1980. He is co-inventor on 6 U.S. Patents.
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- Co - Founder and Chief Yahoo / Yahoo! Inc.
David Filo, a native of Moss Bluff, La., co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with Jerry Yang and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Filo serves as a key technologist, directing the technical operations behind the company's global network of Web properties. He is credited with helping build Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the Internet's most recognized brands.
Filo holds a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Tulane University and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program.
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- Research Scientist / Organic and Analytical Lab
- Research Scientist II
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- Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer ( Ret. )
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Senior Federal Executive ( Ret. )
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- Assistant Director for New Programs / NASA
Colonel Douglas G. Hurley, USMC, is a NASA astronaut, test pilot, and fighter pilot with a military career that spans over 24 years. He currently holds the position of Assistant Director for New Programs at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Previously, he was the pilot on two space shuttle missions to the International Space Station. He flew on STS-127 in July, 2009 and then flew again in July, 2011 on STS-135, the last flight of America's Space Shuttle Program.
A native of Apalachin, NY, Hurley graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors from Tulane University with a BSE in Civil Engineering in May, 1988. At the same time, he received his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Tulane. He was designated a Naval Aviator in August, 1991 after two years of flight training. Upon completion of initial F/A-18 training, he was assigned to Marine All Weather Fighter/Attack Squadron 225 in the summer of 1992, where he made three overseas deployments to the Western Pacific. Over his 4 1/2 years with the "Vikings," he served as the Aviation Safety Officer and the Pilot Training Officer. Hurley was then selected to attend the United States Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. After graduation in December 1997, he was assigned to the Naval Strike Aircraft Test Squadron (VX-23) as an F/A-18 Project Officer and Test Pilot. He was serving as the Operations Officer when selected as a pilot for the astronaut program in July 2000. Following the completion of 2 years of training and evaluation, he was assigned numerous technical duties within the Astronaut Office. He most recently served as the NASA Director of Operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia and as the Astronaut Safety Chief before holding his current position. Hurley has logged over 4,500 hours in more than 25 aircraft.
He is married to NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and they have one son.
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- Technical Service Representative - Polymers Technology Division / Eastman Chemical Company
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- Member of the Board
- President, Cyber - Health, Inc
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- Member of the Board
- Managing Member, Center for Neurosurgical and Spinal Disorders, LLC
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Bristol - Myers Squibb in 2012 As Senior Vice President, Business Development
- Out - of - Town Vice President / Executive Vice President, Business Development Exelixis
- Senior Vice President / Business Development
Fran Heller joined Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2012 as senior vice president, Business Development. In that role, Fran oversees the execution of the Company's strategy of finding external partners and innovation. Prior to joining Bristol-Myers Squibb, Fran was executive vice president, Business Development at Exelixis where she accomplished several large, company-transforming transactions. Prior to that Fran was head of Strategic Alliances at Novartis Pharmaceuticals where she was responsible for transactions with partners in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry as well as academic institutions worldwide. Previously she was Corporate and Intellectual Property counsel for Celera Genomics.
Fran serves on the board of directors of several biotech companies and universities, is a Trustee at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and teaches a business class at Stanford University on the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. Fran is a member of the California State Bar, is licensed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and has a B.S. in biology from Tulane University, an M.A. in biology from American University and J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Consultant / Rain CII Carbon, LLC
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- Chairman and CEO / Camgian Corporation
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Associate Director, Center for NanoScience / University of Missouri - St. Louis
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Distinguished Engineering Associate ( Ret. ) ExxonMobil
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- Lab Supervisor I / Cell and Molecular Biology
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Senior Director of Knowledge Management at Applied Materials
Helen Armer is Senior Director of Knowledge Management at Applied Materials, the world's largest supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. In this role, she is responsible for developing and capturing knowledge content (methodologies, best practices, models) for Applied Materials' installed base and for benchmarking the performance of the equipment. Helen is located in Santa Clara, California. During her career at Applied Materials, she has been the global product manager for three product divisions and the Chief Marketing Officer for one product division. As a product manager, one of her key responsibilities was creating the product's patent strategy and managing the patent portfolio. Prior to becoming a product manager, she worked as a process engineer and a process engineering manager.
Helen received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Tulane in 1980. She also earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Houston in 1987, where she specialized in thin film deposition. She has worked in the fields of thin film deposition and semiconductor equipment for 30 years. She holds 28 U.S. patents and several dozen related patents in Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. She has published over twenty five papers.
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- Chairman of the Board
- President / All Aboard Development Corp. Chairman of the Board
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- Operations Manager II / Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jacob Mumm - Managing Director, SVP
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- Managing Director
- Senior Vice President
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- Senior Instrumentation Specialist / Chemistry
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- Chief Financial Officer
- President
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- Immediate past President / President, Director & Co - Founder ORX Resources, Inc
- New Orleans Vice President / President, Director and Co - Founder ORX Resources, Inc
- President - Elect / President, Director & Co - Founder ORX Resources, Inc
- President / President, Director & Co - Founder ORX Resources, Inc
- President, Director & Co - Founder / ORX Resources, Inc.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President / Industrial Chemicals Corporation
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- Associate Professor
- Surgeon
- Pediatric Surgeon
- Vinci - Chair
James Wall is an Associate Professor and Pediatric Surgeon at Stanford University who focuses on minimally-invasive approaches to children's surgery. His research focuses on how to educate others to design and develop health technology, as well as on flexible endoscopic surgery in children. He is a physician entrepreneur who has developed multiple health technologies including a novel epidural needle, a protection device for umbilical catheters, and a wearable leg compression system. James currently holds the roles of director of Program Development for the Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellowship, chairman of the perioperative value analysis committee for Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and co-director of the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium. James graduated from Tulane University with an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed a general surgery residency training program at the University of California, San Francisco. He graduated from the Stanford Biodesign Innovation fellowship and has a Masters Degree in bioengineering from Stanford. He completed a fellowship in minimally invasive surgery at the IRCAD institute in France followed by a Pediatric Surgery fellowship at Stanford.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Executive Vice President / Corporate Development and Communication / Schlumberger Limited
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Technologist
- Chief Executive Officer of ComplySci
Jean-Marc serves as Chief Executive Officer of ComplySci, an award-winning provider of compliance and risk management technology solutions used by over 750 institutions globally to proactively identify risks and manage complex regulatory and compliance challenges. Jean-Marc is also a member of ComplySci's board of directors.
Prior to joining ComplySci, Jean-Marc was President of LRN, a global leading provider of ethics and compliance solutions, following several years Head of Global Issuer Services at the NYSE where he led NYSE Governance Services, a provider of corporate governance, risk, and ethics and compliance tools and services, to boards of directors and governance and compliance professionals. He also led NYSE's corporate services business, a portfolio of value-added services for investor relations, IPO, and capital markets professionals.
Jean-Marc is a technologist by training, an information services addict, and a passionate ethics and compliance convert, with a proven track record of building fast-growing technology, information, and compliance businesses. He was a member of the founding senior team of TheMarkets.com, an award winning provider of financial information and solutions to more than 2,400 institutional investment management firms worldwide, until the highly successful sale of the company to S&P's Capital IQ division.
Jean-Marc has served on several advisory and private company boards. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Tulane University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.
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- Chief Business Officer
- Dean
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- Chancellor
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Senior Program Coordinator / Chemistry
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Chairman of the Board ( Ret. ) Walk, Haydel and Associates
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- Department Administrator / Chemistry
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Consultant / Laitram Corporation
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- Department Administrator / Cell and Molecular Biology
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- Founder / Debt Exchange Network, Inc.
John received his Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane in 1986. He went on to attend Southern Methodist University, receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 1989. He practiced law for Busch, Ryan & Seib in Dallas and Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller in New Orleans, focusing on commercial litigation and bankruptcy. He is admitted to the bars of California, Louisiana, and Texas.
In 1996, John received an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He co-founded a multi-media real estate marketing start-up, TrueView Marketing Support Systems, which was a pioneer in showing homes for sale on the internet. Building upon his experience in bankruptcy law, in 1999 he founded Debt Exchange Network, Inc., a private company that invested in the distressed debt of companies in bankruptcy. He currently manages a portfolio of diverse investments and resides in San Diego with his wife, Carol.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Executive Vice President ( Ret. ) Intel
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President and CEO ( Ret. )
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Vice President, Projects / ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
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- Member of the Board of Advisors Board of Advisors
- Chief Executive Officer / JMc Associates, LLC
- Immediate past President / Chief Operations Officer ( Ret. ), Enexus / Entergy Corp
- President - Elect / Chief Operations Officer ( Ret. ), Enexus / Entergy Corp
- President / Chief Operations Officer ( Ret. ), Enexus / Entergy Corp
- President of Entergy Nuclear South
- Vice President of Operations Support for Entergy Nuclear South
John R. McGaha became president of Entergy Nuclear South in March 2000. Entergy Corporation, through its Entergy Nuclear South subsidiary, operates five nuclear units in its retail electric service area: two-units at Arkansas Nuclear One and single units at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, River Bend Station and Waterford 3. Since 2005 in his final assignments with Entergy he lead two major nuclear and corporate-wide change initiatives. Since December 2009 he has worked as a consultant to the nuclear industry and as a board member for a privately owned nuclear service company.
McGaha has been an active participant in nuclear industry initiatives that contribute to continuous improvement and excellence. He served in multiple current and past roles on executive committees and advisory councils for the Nuclear Energy Institute, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and the American Nuclear Society; and since 2001 as a member of the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering Board of Advisors.
McGaha has 32 years of experience with Entergy's nuclear program. He started his Entergy career in 1978 at the Waterford 3 plant in Taft, Louisiana, advancing to the position of general manager of plant operations.
McGaha was promoted to vice president of operations support for Entergy Nuclear South in 1991, coordinating support services for all the nuclear units at the company's nuclear headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi Concurrent with Entergy's December 1993 merger with Gulf States Utilities, McGaha was named vice president of River Bend Station in St. Francisville, Louisiana, where performance in most industry indicators was lagging. Under McGaha's leadership, the plant was integrated into Entergy Nuclear South, and major improvement plans were developed and implemented that set the plant on an impressive improving trend.
McGaha was promoted in September 1998 to executive vice president and chief operating officer of Entergy Nuclear South, followed by the assignments previously highlighted until his retirement in 2009.
Before joining Entergy, McGaha was an electrical design engineer for Brown & Root, Inc. for three years, and he served in the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine program for five years. In 1994, he retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of captain.
McGaha is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He has completed the Harvard University Advanced Management Program; is a registered professional engineer; and received a senior reactor operator management certification at Waterford 3.
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- Systems Analyst / Lab Supervisor II
- Systems Analyst, Lab Supervisor
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- Senior Vice President - Policy and Economics for the Association of American Railroads
- Senior Vice President / Association of American Railroads
John Gray is Senior Vice President - Policy and Economics for the Association of American Railroads (AAR). He assumed this role in 2008; his responsibilities include the collection, analysis, and presentation of economic data related to railroads and their economic environment as well as development of policy positions on current significant rail issues.
Prior to joining the AAR he worked for Union Pacific where he was responsible for the commercial relationship with other transportation carriers and ports and for strategic policy analysis on issues involving regulatory proposals, legislation, and potential litigation. He also held the positions of Vice President, Business Development and Vice President and General Manager, Industrial Products.
Before working at Union Pacific he was Vice President, Network Development at Southern Pacific Railroad. He has also worked in commercial and strategic positions at Burlington Northern Railroad, ARCO-Alaska and The Alaska Railroad as well as holding a faculty position at the University of Alaska. Prior to that, he held a commission in the U.S. Army and served in Germany for four years.
He holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from Tulane University and did post-graduate work in mathematical modeling of transportation networks and rail cost analysis at Northwestern University. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the John W. Barringer III National Railroad Library.
He and his wife, Joan, both raised in Alaska, now reside in Bethesda, Maryland.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Vice President and CTO ( Ret. ) Pitney Bowes, Inc.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Corporate Human Resources Project Manager ( Ret. ) DuPont Company
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- Accountant II / Physics and Engineering Physics
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- Project Manager / Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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- Ex - Officio Member
- Associate Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering / Tulane University
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- Operations Manager I / Cell and Molecular Biology
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President / K. Arnold Consulting, Inc.
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- Editor
- Member of the Emeritus
- Founder and CEO / Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
- Founder and CEO of the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
- Member of the NASA
Kenneth Ford is Founder and CEO of the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) - a not-for-profit research institute located in Pensacola, Florida. IHMC has grown into one of the nation's premier research organizations with world-class scientists and engineers investigating a broad range of topics related to building technological systems aimed at amplifying and extending human cognitive and perceptual capacities. Richard Florida has described IHMC as "a new model for interdisciplinary research institutes that strive to be both entrepreneurial and academic, firmly grounded and inspiringly ambitious." IHMC headquarters are in Pensacola and a branch research facility has recently opened in Ocala, Florida.
Dr. Ford is the editor or coauthor of hundreds of scientific papers and six books. Ford's research interests include: artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-centered computing, and entrepreneurship in government and academia. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tulane University. He is Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of AAAI/MIT Press and has been involved in the editing of several journals. Dr. Ford is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a member of the National Association of Scholars. Dr. Ford has received many awards and honors including the Doctor Honoris Causas from the University of Bordeaux in 2005 and the 2008 Robert S. Englemore Memorial Award for his work in artificial intelligence (AI).
In January 1997, Dr. Ford was asked by NASA to develop and direct its new Center of Excellence in Information Technology at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. He served as Associate Center Director and Director of NASA's Center of Excellence in Information Technology. In July 1999, Dr. Ford was awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. That same year, Dr. Ford returned to private life and to the IHMC.
Dr. Ford served on the National Science Board (NSB) for a six-year term ending in 2008. The National Science Board is the governing board of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and plays an important role in advising the President and Congress on science policy issues. In 2004 Florida Trend Magazine named Dr. Ford one of Florida's 4 most influential citizens working in academia. In 2005, Dr. Ford was appointed and sworn in as a member of the Air Force Science Advisory Board (SAB) where he served until 2009.
In 2007, Dr. Ford became a member of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) and on October 16, 2008, he was named as Chairman - a capacity in which he served until October, 2011. In August 2010, Dr. Ford was awarded NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal - the highest honor the agency confers.
In February of 2012, Dr. Ford was named to the Defense Science Board (DSB).
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- Member of the Emeritus
- New Orleans Vice President / President, Claymore Oil & Gas L.P
- President - Elect / President, Claymore Oil & Gas L.P
- President / Claymore Oil & Gas L.P.
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- Ex - Officio Member
- Dean of Science and Engineering / Tulane University
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Director of Projects
- Immediate past President / Chairman of the Board, Wink Companies, LLC
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- Budget - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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- Member of the Board of Advisors Board of Advisors
- Apple 's Vice President of Environment
- Vice President / Environment
Lisa Jackson is Apple's vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
Lisa Jeff - Founder, President
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- Founder
- Member of the Emeritus
- President
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- Co - Founder
- Director
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Network Administrator III / Mathematics
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- Member of the Board
- Principal Engineer, Exponent® Failure Analysis Associates®, Inc
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- Library Associate / Mathematics
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- Accountant II / Mathematics and Computer Science
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- Senior Instrumentation Specialist / Physics and Engineering Physics
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- President and CEO of the Smithers Group
- President and Chief Executive Officer / the Smithers Group, Inc.
- Smithers in 1988 As a Management Consultant
- Vice President of Management Consulting at Smithers
- Vice President of Smithers' Akron
Michael Hochschwender is the President and CEO of The Smithers Group. Since becoming CEO in 1996, his leadership and entrepreneurial approach have driven technology diversification, geographical expansion, and rapid business growth. Today, Smithers serves a global client base from thirteen facilities spread across North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Hochschwender has been responsible for five acquisitions and two start-ups all funded by operations.
A graduate of Tulane University and the Wharton School of Business, Mr. Hochschwender holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Environmental Studies and a Masters of Business Administration, with an emphasis on operations, finance and entrepreneurial management.
Immediately following his undergraduate program, Mr. Hochschwender spent five years in the U.S. Navy as a platoon commander for SEAL Team One in Coronado, California. After starting his business career, he continued serving in the United States Navy Reserve until 2008.
Mr. Hochschwender joined Smithers in 1988 as a management consultant, responsible for market research for the North American tire industry. Later he was named General Manager of the Akron laboratory operations, with a scope of services covering the materials testing and analysis of rubber, plastics and tires.
After obtaining his MBA in 1992, Mr. Hochschwender was promoted to Vice President of Management Consulting at Smithers and President of Smithers Quality Assessments, Inc., an accredited registrar for quality systems certification.
In May 1994, Mr. Hochschwender was appointed Vice President of Smithers' Akron operations. While maintaining his management consulting and quality assessments responsibilities, his new duties expanded to include overseeing the materials testing laboratories and technical consulting, focusing on product development, failure analysis and accident reconstruction for clients in the tire and rubber industries.
Mr. Hochschwender is active in local health, civic and educational organizations. He currently serves or has served on the boards of Akron General Medical Center, Old Trail School, FirstMerit Corp., University of Akron Foundation, Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges, Morgan Foundation, and The American Council of Independent Laboratories.
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- Ex - Officio Member
- Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering / Tulane University
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- Senior Instrumentation Specialist / Chemistry
- TINI Co - Director, Imaging & Characterization Facility ( ICF ) Faculty Director
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- Director
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Senior Program Coordinator / Psychology
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President ( Ret. ) BE & K, Inc.
Dr. Miriam E. John is serving in various consulting and board roles since her retirement as Vice President of Sandia's California Laboratory in Livermore, California. During her Sandia career, she worked on a wide variety of programs, including nuclear weapons, chemical, and biological defense; missile defense; solar energy; and, provided leadership for a number of the laboratory's energy, national security, and homeland security programs. She is a member of the Department of Defense's Defense Science Board (DSB), Vice Chair of its Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, DHS's Homeland Security Science and Technology Committee (HSSTAC), the AAAS Committee on Science and Engineering Public Policy (COSEPP), and immediate past Chair of the National Research Council's Naval Studies Board. Dr. John also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Institute for Hometown Security, the Board of Advisors for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Board of Directors for Draper Laboratory, the External Advisory Board of Savannah River National Laboratory, and the Board of Directors of Leidos, inc. She is a Senior Fellow and past Chair of the California Council on Science and Technology. Dr. John is a member of the Dean's advisory board for the School of Science and Engineering and chairs the Advisory Board for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University, where she has been recognized as an outstanding alumna. She is a past member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Board on Army Science and Technology, and the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Commission on Science and Security. She was appointed a National Associate of the National Academies of Science and Engineering and is the recipient of the Navy's Superior Public Service Award.
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- Program Coordinator / Center for K - 12 STEM Education and Dean 's Office
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- Vice President of the Emeritus
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- Professor
- Whitehead Professor of Molecular Genetics / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Monty Krieger has life-long connections to Tulane - his mother (Mildred) and father (I. Jay) were graduates (Newcomb, Tulane Law). At Tulane (B.S. in Chemistry, summa cum laude with distinction, 1971) he did research with Professor Cusachs (quantum mechanics) and Professor Fritchie (crystallography) and received the Merck Award, the Perry Medal, and was elected to ΦΗΣ and ΦΒΚ. He received Danforth and Woodrow Wilson Fellowships for graduate studies in Chemistry at Caltech with Professor R. Stroud (Ph.D. ‘76) and Caltech's McCoy Award for outstanding contributions to Chemistry. After postdoctoral training at Southwestern Medical Center with Professors M. Brown & J. Goldstein (‘77-‘81) he joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Biology Department where he is the Whitehead Professor and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute. He has won awards for undergraduate & graduate teaching and for research, including election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2009). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Crete and the Weizmann Institute and is an author of the widely used textbook Molecular Cell Biology. In 2009 he joined Tulane's School of Science and Engineering Board of Advisors. He and wife Nancy have two sons, Jonathan and Joshua.
Krieger's research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explores how cells ‘work', how the body protects itself from foreign pathogens, and cholesterol metabolism and its role in clogging of the arteries (atherosclerosis), a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. Krieger studies receptors, proteins residing on the surfaces of cells that ‘recognize' or bind to key molecules in the surrounding fluid. His analysis of LDL (‘bad' cholesterol) receptors identified genes that influence the inner workings of cells, mutations in which cause human disease. He identified and characterized several ‘scavenger' receptors, proposing and helping establish that such receptors can play a key role in immune defense. He also discovered and characterized the first HDL (‘good' cholesterol) receptor and its novel mechanism of delivering cholesterol to cells. Krieger's group showed this HDL receptor influences gastrointestinal, endocrine, reproductive and cardiovascular physiology, and protects against female infertility, certain blood disorders, and atherosclerosis. His work generated new methods for studying coronary heart disease and suggests that the HDL receptor is a potential target for pharmacologic prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
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- Program Coordinator / Chemistry
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- Member of the Board of Advisors Board of Advisors
- President / Windy City, Inc.
- President of Windy City, Inc
- Trustee Emeritus and past President of the Board of Trustees of the Langley School
Mr. Joel Kanter has served as President of Windy City, Inc., a privately held investment firm, since July 1986.
Mr Kanter is also a current Trustee Emeritus and past President of the Board of Trustees of The Langley School in McLean, Virginia, and a former Trustee at the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. He is also the current Board Chair of the Black Student Fund, and of the Independent School Chairpersons Association. He is an Executive Committee Member of the Kennedy Center's National Committee on the Performing Arts, and serves on the Governor's Virginia Israel Advisory Board.
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- Accountant II / Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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- TINI Co - Director, Micro / Nanofabrication Facility ( MNF ) Faculty Director
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Chairman of Surgery / Maimonides Cancer Center
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- Accountant II / Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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- CEO
- President
- Immediate past President / President and CEO, Woodward Design Build
- President / President and CEO, Woodward Design Build
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- Instrumentation Specialist / Psychology
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- NMR Laboratory Manager / Chemistry
- Research Scientist / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ( NMR ) Lab
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- Lab Supervisor II
- Laboratory Supervisor II
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President and CEO ( Ret. ) Aquarion Company
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- Member of the Board
- President of the Emeritus
- Board Chair ) ( Ph.D. 1982
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- Technology Associate ( Ret. )
Richard retired after a 31-year career in the Ethylene Oxide/Ethylene Glycol (EO/EG) Business with Union Carbide and The Dow Chemical Company. He held multiple positions in Operations, Process Improvement, Process Engineering, Catalyst and Technology Licensing, Six Sigma, and Process Technology Development. In addition to long-term assignments at multiple sites in the U.S., he also had long-term assignments in Red Deer, Alberta and Teesside, United Kingdom. He also completed shorter assignments in China, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, and multiple locations in Europe.
In addition to fulfilling leadership roles on several major capital projects and new plant startups, Richard led the development of several breakthrough improvements in EO/EG process technology and is co-inventor on six U.S. patents. He was an early practitioner applying TRIZ and ARIZ innovation methodologies within Dow. Richard also led the EO/EG Business technology training and education program and was a corporate oxygen handling subject matter expert. He became a recognized leader for investigating and resolving serious Operations unplanned events and complex technology performance issues. In this role he developed expertise providing functional direction for applying advanced techniques to analyze large process datasets and interpret results. He demonstrated similar expertise providing functional guidance for using tools such as Computational Fluid Dynamics in both investigative and technology development applications. He also helped develop a science-based problem solving process now successfully applied across Dow.
Richard currently provides consulting services to several clients on a part-time basis.
Richard received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Tulane in 1979. He is a Dow-certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Registered Professional Engineer (ChE, Inactive status) in Louisiana. He and his wife Susan reside in The Woodlands, Texas. Richard actively supports the Houston area Tulane Alumni organization and is also a judge at the FIRST Robotics high school robotics competition at both regional and world championship levels.
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- Vice President - Global Exploration ( Ret. ) Chevron
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President and Chief Executive Officer / Boh Brothers Construction Co.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Intellectual Property Attorney / Founding Partner
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- General Counsel / Chief Compliance and Corporate Development Officer
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- President / RYCARS Construction
- President of RYCARS Construction
Mr. Burks serves as President of RYCARS Construction, LLC which has offices in Kenner, LA and Atlanta, GA. He is a highly motivated and versatile construction professional with over 25 years of successful, progressive experience and technical expertise in all phases of project management and construction. He is a hands-on, proactive leader recognized for abilities in design review, construction estimating and construction management. Mr. Burks assumes personal accountability, and pride, in his firm's performance and customers' satisfaction. He serves as the key driver of the company's strategic direction. He oversees the day-to-day operations as well as leads the development and execution of the company's business development plan. Since its inception, Mr. Burks has led RYCARS Construction, LLC in completing over $100 million in commercial roofing and construction projects for over 75 different customers, in multiple types of facilities such as healthcare, multi-family, institutional, hotel, water treatment facilities and military bases. RYCARS has performed successfully on projects in ten (10) states: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia. They have completed high profile projects such as Mercedes Benz Superdome and Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Mr. Burks has earned his masters degree and bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Tulane University.
Ryan is married to Stephanie McLendon Burks with whom he has three children, Arielle, Ryan II and Caleb.
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- Founder
- Member of the Board
- Founder, DARE Bioscience CFO / COO, Calibr
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- Managing Director
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Medical Director / Ackerman Cancer Center
Scot Ackerman, MD, Board Certified in Radiation Oncology, is the medical director of Ackerman Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Florida. His private, physician-owned practice is the first of its kind internationally to offer proton therapy, a precise form of radiation treatment for cancer.
Dr. Ackerman is a strong believer in individualized patient care and has served as an integral force in Florida's fight against cancer through his patient advocacy and community awareness. He has served as President of Medical Staff for St. Vincent's Healthcare; as President of the St. Vincent's Foundation, which provides financial assistance for medical care to migrant farm workers and other underserved populations; as President of the American Cancer Society, Florida Division, bringing the Clean Indoor Air Act to the voting public as an amendment; and is currently committed to providing care to Duval and Nassau Counties' medically underserved populations through Volunteers in Medicine and WeCare Jacksonville.
Dr. Ackerman graduated from Tulane University in 1978 with a degree in Biomedical Engineering. After completing his medical training at Columbia University in New York City, he moved to Jacksonville and has been in private practice for more than 25 years. Although no longer living in New Orleans, Dr. Ackerman continues to have a strong presence at Tulane. He served as a member of the Parent's Council from 2010-2014, served on his class' 35th Reunion Committee, and is a Hillel Board Member.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- President and Chief Executive Officer / H & S Production Company
Scott Heape, a native Texan, earned a B.S, in Geology from Tulane in 1972 where he also played football on a scholarship. He began his oil and gas career working summers during college as a field operator of completion and remedial services for Halliburton as well as an operator. After graduating from Tulane he served as an engineer on field logging equipment for Schlumberger.
After his experience with Schlumberger, he served as an exploration geologist with Lone Star Producing Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lone Star Gas (Enserch). He then joined Bass Enterprises Production Company in Fort Worth and continued exploration work in East Texas, Northern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas. He had broad responsible for open-hole logging and field evaluation for all Bass Family domestic energy operations.
Today he is President of Dallas-based H&S Production, Inc., a private oil and gas company, which along with H&S Geophysical, Inc., he founded in 1978. He is also President of Atoka Operating, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of H&S Production. The organizations' primary focus is to identify and acquire oil & gas prospects for exploration and developmental drilling. Since its formation, H&S's track record of successful completions is well documented. H&S activities are concentrated in the Sherman-Marietta Basin, Fort Worth Basis, East Texas and Northern Louisiana.
He is a Certified Petroleum Geologist by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists; a Certified Professional Geologist Scientist by the Association of Professional Geophysical Scientists; a licensed Professional Geoscientist of The State of Texas; a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA); the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES); the Texas Independent Production and Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO); the East Texas and Dallas Geological Societies and the Texas Alliance.
He is married to Mary Alice and has three sons, David, Austin and Jonathan. Austin is completing his graduate work and will be the third-generation of the Heape family to become a geologist.
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- Co - Founder / Center for Restorative Breast Surgery
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- CEO
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Immediate past President / Business Manager, Polypropylene INEOS USA LLC
- Out - of - Town Vice President / Business Manager, Polypropylene INEOS USA LLC
- Polymer Sales Director, North America / INEOS USA LLC
- President - Elect / Business Manager, Polypropylene INEOS USA LLC
- President / Business Manager, Polypropylene INEOS USA LLC
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Orthopaedic Surgeon and President / Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic
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- Vice President
- Out - of - Town Vice President
- Vice Dean / San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center
Dr. Carlisle was appointed Vice Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, SFGH July 2012. She earned her MS and PhD from Tulane University. She did her postdoctoral work in the Department of Biology at Rice University. Dr. Carlisle earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was also inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She completed both her residency in Medicine and fellowship in critical care in Anesthesia at UCSF. She joined the French Hospital Health Plan as a primary care internist. Several years later, she entered the Anesthesia residency at UCSF, where she was also Chief Resident. In 1990 Dr. Carlisle joined the UCSF faculty and is currently Professor of Clinical Anesthesia and Medicine. She is a recipient of the Stuart C. Cullen MD Award for Clinical Excellence (1990), the Faculty Clinical Excellence Award (1993), The Rappaport Award (2009) and the 2012 Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women. In 1999 she was appointed Chief of Anesthesia, a position she held until 2005. In 2004 Dr. Carlisle was appointed Associate Dean, SFGH. She received the 2009 Elliot Rapaport Award for Commitment to San Francisco General Hospital.
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- Attorney at Law
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Author / Speaker / Consultant, CEO ( Ret. )
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- Project Assistant / Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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- Member of the Emeritus
- CSO and VP of Inhalation Products
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- Chairman ( Ret. ) Westcon Group, Incorporated
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- Member of the Board of Advisors Board of Advisors
- Executive Vice President, MD Anderson Cancer Network
- Member of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists
- Professor and Physician - Gynecologic Oncology ( Ret. ) Executive VP
Thomas W. Burke, M.D., served as the Executive Vice President and Physician-in-Chief at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, from March 2005 - December 2013, where he was responsible for patient care delivery throughout the hospital, clinics and outreach programs. Under Dr. Burke's leadership, MD Anderson advanced the study of cancer economics, patient safety and quality improvement.
Currently, Dr. Burke serves as the Executive Vice President, MD Anderson Cancer Network. He provides leadership for a team focused on engaging community hospitals and health care systems across the nation and around the world with the goal of improving the quality of cancer care in those communities. He works to ensure MD Anderson-quality care is delivered by our partner, certified and specialty members and by the outpatient centers located in regional communities around Houston.
Dr. Burke is a practicing gynecologic oncology surgeon with a research emphasis in vulvar and endometrial cancers. He continues to be engaged in cancer research, as well as in training the next generation of oncology care providers. His clinical and educational activities have been recognized through national and international presentations. He has written or contributed to chapters for several textbooks and has authored or co-authored more than 180 original medical articles.
Dr. Burke is a member of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Surgeons, the Felix Rutledge Society, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He now serves as a board member of the American Hospital Association.
Dr. Burke received his undergraduate degree in Biology summa cum laude and his medical degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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- Technical Service Representative - Polymers Technology Division / Eastman Chemical Company
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- Senior Program Coordinator / Earth and Environmental
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- Storeroom Supervisor / Chemistry
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- Member of the Board
- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Founder and President / the Breland Group, LLC
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- Administrative Secretary / Tulane University
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Senior Vice President / URS Corporation
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- Financial Services Associate / Chemistry
Dr. Warren R. Bourgeois, III is a New Orleans native, having earned his BS ChE From Tulane University in 1978 and his MD from Tulane in 1982. He completed his orthopedic residency through Tulane Medical School at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in 1987. He has been board-certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery since 1989.
Following completion of his residency, he subsequently spent four years serving as an orthopedic surgeon in the US Air Force at US Air Force Medical Center Keesler. He was deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Following his military service he returned to New Orleans and entered private practice with his current affiliation, Audubon Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. He served as the president of this clinic from 1999 until his retirement in December 2018. In his practice, he specialized in joint replacement and sports medicine. He has been listed as one of the "Top Doctors in New Orleans" in New Orleans Magazine.
Dr. Bourgeois held active staff appointments at Ochsner Baptist Medical Center and East Jefferson General Hospital at the time of his retirement. He has served on numerous hospital committees including Board of Governors and Medical Executive Committees. He has held an appointment to the Jefferson Parish Ethics and Compliance Commission as the Tulane University nominee since 2012.
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- General Partner ( Ret. ) Stonehill Capital Management, LLC
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- Senior Executive Secretary / Dean
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- Managing Director / Jefferies & Company, Inc.
- Managing Director of Jefferies LLC
William "Bill" Marko is a Managing Director of Jefferies LLC in the Energy Investment Banking Group. He has managed more than $60 billion of asset and corporate transactions. His client base consists of many of the world's 50 largest oil and gas companies. Prior to joining Randall & Dewey, subsequently purchased by Jefferies, Mr. Marko worked more than 18 years in various engineering, operations and commercial roles at Mobil Oil, followed by COO of Madison Energy Advisors, a transaction advisory firm.
With more than 35 years of industry experience in worldwide acquisition, divestment and new business development, he has evaluated transactions in all major U.S. basins and more than 70 countries.
Bill is a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana and is on the Tulane University President's Council and the Board of the Tulane School of Science & Engineering.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Vice President, Industry Issues ( Ret. ) Occidental Chemical Corporation
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- Research Scientist
- Senior Instrumentation Specialist / Chemistry