GHECC - Key Persons
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- Officer / Washington University
Aaron Bobick joined Washington University in St. Louis as Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science and the James M. McKelvey Professor July 1, 2015. Prior to Washington University, he was a professor and founding chair of the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the faculty since 1999.
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- Board Member / Fontbonne University
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- Chairman of the Computer and Information
Craig Chott, CISSP, is the Chair of the Computer and Information Technology Department at St. Louis Community College and is the Cybersecurity Program Coordinator. Craig Chott's career in the IT field goes back to 1984, where he worked in Desktop Support and Networking. He has been teaching IT full-time since 1999.
He received his B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis, and his M.S. from Fort Hays State University in Kansas.
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director of the Gateway Higher Education Cybersecurity Consortium
David Reddick serves as Executive Director of the Gateway Higher Education Cybersecurity Consortium, bringing more than two decades of experience in business continuity and cybersecurity to the role.
A former print journalist, he was co-founder in 2000 of Global Velocity, a cybersecurity firm that supported high-speed real time data matching capabilities developed at Washington University in St. Louis.
He later supported the Saint Louis University Information Technology Services division to develop and maintain its disaster recovery and business continuity programs. During that time, he became interested in public health, and in 2011 co-founded Bio-Defense Network, a national public health preparedness consultancy that has worked to support more than 40 departments from around the nation, including a program that recruited public health and nursing graduate students and undergrads to conduct COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing during the pandemic.
Dr. Mary Abkemeier is a professor, chair of the department of mathematics and computer science and director of the MS degree in computer science at Fontbonne University, where she has taught for more than 40 years. She received her Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh and attended Saint Louis University for her bachelor's in mathematics.
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- Treasurer / Maryville University
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- Board Member / St. Louis Community College
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- Founder and President of the Leadership Forge
Scherrer is the founder and president of The Leadership Forge, an executive leadership coaching and strategy development consulting firm. He served 24 years in the U.S. Air Force, rising to the rank of Colonel and serving four overseas deployments. He commanded five units at the wing, group, and squadron levels focusing on IT operations, communications, and cybersecurity in peacetime and wartime environments.
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- Board Member / Saint Louis University
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- Executive Director, Workforce Center / Saint Louis University
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- Program Director of the Master
Maria Weber, MS, is the Program Director of the Master's of Cybersecurity and Information Systems in the School for Professional Studies at Saint Louis University (SLU.) Weber has over 25 years of industry and academic experience. Past industry experience involved multiple positions in Networking, Wireless, Security, Software-Defined Networking, Cloud Computing, and Virtualization.
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- Visiting Professor, Cybersecurity, Fontbonne University & Emeritus Professor, SIUE
Dr. Sumner served as Conference Co-Chair, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), and is Vice-President for Academic Affairs for the Society for Information Management (SIM). She oversees a CIO forum and participates on the Project Management Advisory Board. Her education includes a B.A. Syracuse, M.A., University of Chicago, M.A., Columbia University, and Doctorate, Rutgers University. Her certifications include Oracle Master's and AMIA Health Informatics.
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- Department Chair, Information Technology
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- Information Technology / St. Charles Community College
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- Chairman & President / Webster University
Dr. Jacks is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Management & Information Systems at SIUE. Jacks has more than 18 years of industry experience in IT management and teaches courses in information security, business telecommunications, IT audit and controls and IT systems architecture.
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- Dean of the School of Business at Southern
- Vice President & Vice Chair / Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Tim Schoenecker, PhD, is dean of the School of Business at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Working with faculty and staff, contributed to the School's growth and celebrated its accounting and business programs' 2017 reaccreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), a hallmark of excellence earned by less than five percent of the world's business schools.
Under Schoenecker's leadership, the School has progressed its strategic plan by boosting enrollment, continuing its tradition of internships and global engagement, building faculty resources and maintaining its momentum in development and alumni relations.
Schoenecker joined the SIUE faculty in fall 1992 in the Department of Management and Marketing. His teaching interests are in the areas of strategic management and entrepreneurship. His research interests are primarily in the areas of corporate governance and top management teams. In addition to his academic work, he served as a consultant for both large and small businesses in the St. Louis area.
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- Associate Dean, School for Professional Studies / Saint Louis University
Troy Hargrove, M.B.A. serves as an associate dean of the School for Professional Studies and director of Summer and Extended Studies at Saint Louis University, where he has over 20 years of experience working in higher education. Past roles have included a variety of positions within the Division of Enrollment and Retention Management, Career Services, Graduate Business Programs, and working directly for the University President.
William Hocker has more than 8 years' experience as Cisco College Instructor of IT and