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David
Boyer, Jr.
David Boyer, Jr., is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Troy Systems,
an award-winning company he founded to service the information management
requirements of the federal government. Today, Inc. magazine lists Troy
as one of America's 500 fastest growing private companies, serving both
government and commercial clients. Mr. Boyer is a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Center for Excellence in Education 2000, and serves
as Chairman of the Wolftrap Foundation's Board of Directors. He is also
Chairman of the George Mason University Board of Trustees. Mr. Boyer
received the Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, Pennsylvania
State University, where he received his master's degree. He was named
High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in the Greater Washington area by
Ernst and Young (1994), received the Outstanding Small Business Person
of the Year, District of Columbia in 1992, the Minority Business Person
of the Year from the Small Business Administration in 1991 and the Regional
Businessman of the Year by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1991.
Alexander
R.M. Boyle
Alexander R.M. Boyle has been Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Chevy Chase Bank since 1985. Prior to this, he was the President
and CEO of Government Services and Savings and Loan until its merger
with Chevy Chase Bank in 1985. Mr. Boyle had been the Financial Vice-President
of the Elizabeth Arden Corporation in New York City prior to joining
Government Services. He is a past director of the United States League
of Savings Institutions, the major national trade association for thrift
institutions which evolved into the current America's Community Bankers.
He is a past chairman of the State of Maryland League of Financial Institutions
and currently serves as a director of the Association of Financial Services
Holding Companies in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chancellor's
Advisory Council at the University of Maryland. Mr. Boyle is a graduate
of Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics
from Yale University, and a Master of Business Administration degree
from the Harvard Business School.
Gerald
Cavanagh
Gerald Cavanagh holds the Charles T. Fisher Chair of Business Ethics
and is Professor of Management at the University of Detroit Mercy. He
is the author of numerous articles and five books, among them are: American
Business Values: With Global Perspectives, Ethical Dilemmas in the Modern
Corporation, Blacks in the Industrial World, and The Businessperson
in Search of Values. Dr. Cavanagh has lectured and given workshops
on business ethics throughout the United States, Mexico, Indonesia,
Australia and India. He received the "Most Outstanding Faculty
Award" in 1998 from his colleagues at the University of Detroit
Mercy. Cavanagh holds a B.S. in engineering and graduate degrees in
philosophy, theology, education, and received his doctorate in management
from Michigan State University. He is an ordained Catholic priest in
the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Dr. Cavanagh received the highest award
in his field (Sumner Marcus Award) from the Academy of Management for
his writing, teaching and other contributions to business ethics. He
has served on the boards of trustees of Fordham, Santa Clara, Xavier,
and as board chair of the University of Detroit.
Gina
H. Despres
Gina H. Despres is a Senior Vice President of Capital Research and Management
Company, a US-based investment management company that is the investment
advisor to the American Funds family of mutual funds. She is President,
Director and Principal Executive Officer of the New Perspective Fund,
a global mutual fund with assets of over $24 billion under management.
She is also Chairman of the Board for the New World Fund and EuroPacific
Growth Fund. Prior to joining Capital in 1991, Ms. Despres was tax counsel
and foreign policy advisor to Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. She
has also practiced law in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Ms. Despres
graduated from the University of Sydney, and was awarded a Juris Doctor
degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is a member
of the Advisory Council of the Center for International Studies at Princeton
University, The Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, The Center
for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and
the Women's Foreign Policy Group. In addition, Ms. Despres serves on
the Board of Directors of the Chatham House Foundation (USA), Partners
for Democratic Change, Human Rights Watch, The Foundation for International
Arts and Exhibitions, and the Arena Stage.
William
M. Evan, Ph.D.
William M. Evan, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Management
at The Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences of the University
of Pennsylvania. He received his BA at the University of Pennsylvania
and his doctorate from Cornell University. The author of numerous articles
for various professional journals, he is also the author/editor of (with
Quincy Write and Morton Deutsch) Preventing World War III, Law and
Sociology, Organizational Experiments, Organization Theory, Interorganizational
Relations, The Sociology of Law, Knowledge and Power in a Global Society,
Social Structures and Law, Organization Theory: Research and Design,
and (with Ved P. Nanda) Nuclear Proliferation and the Legality of
Nuclear Weapons.
James
L. Ferguson
James L. Ferguson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General
Foods Corporation (retired). He is a graduate of Hamilton College, and
earned an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Mr. Ferguson is a Director
of ICOS Corporation and VION Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He is a Chairman
of the South Carolina Aquarium, a Board Director for the Hollings Cancer
Center, The Middleton Place Foundation and the Henry Crown Fellowship
Program, a member of the Business Council and Council on Foreign Relations.
Formerly, he was a Director of Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Glaxo-Wellcome,
p.l.c., Federated Department Stores, Union Carbide, Philip Morris, DNA
Plant Technology and Sawyer-Ferguson-Walker, a Trustee Emeritus of the
Aspen Institute and a Life Trustee of Hamilton College.
Vice
Admiral Lee Fredric Gunn
Vice Admiral Lee Fredric Gunn served in USS EVERETT F. LARSON as First
Lieutenant, Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer, and Navigator. He served
as Operations Officer on the USS O'BRIEN, was Executive Officer of the
USS ALBERT DAVID and commanded the USS BARBEY, after which he was assigned
as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans, Training and Readiness
on the staff of Commander Naval Surface Combatant Task Force, Seventh
Fleet. He also commanded Destroyer Squadron Thirty-One, the Navy's Anti-Submarine
Warfare Destroyer Squadron.
Vice Admiral
Gunn is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and
the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, the National War College, the Senior
Officer Ship Material Readiness Course, and the CAPSTONE Joint Flag
Officer Course. Vice Admiral Gunn most recently served at sea as Commander
Amphibious Group Three and during January through March 1995 as Commander,
Combined Naval Forces, and Deputy Commander, Combined Task Force United
Shield, the amphibious withdrawal of United Nations (UNISOM 11) forces
from Somalia. Vice Admiral Gunn's personal awards include the Defense
Superior Service Medal, Six Legions of Merit, two Meritorious Service
Medals, the Navy Commendation Medal (combat V), and the Navy Achievement
Medal, in addition to various campaign and service ribbons.
Andrew
T. Lamas
Andrew T. Lamas is a Professor at the Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania. A graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina, where
he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Lamas received
his Masters degree in Economic Development from the University of London,
and his J.D. degree from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Lamas has extensive consulting experience with employee-owned
businesses, community development corporations, religious and cultural
organizations, and alternative investment. He is Co-Director of a project
that supports faculty and curriculum development at two new business
schools in the Ukraine, and he is a founding Board Member of the Center
for Community Self-Help (Durham, NC) and the Reinvestment Fund (Philadelphia,
PA).
Sanford
N. McDonnell
Sanford N. McDonnell served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of McDonnell Douglas Corporation for seven years. McDonnell Douglas
is one of America's foremost aerospace companies with an important role
in the nation's defense. McDonnell retired from the corporation in 1988
after 40 years of service. Educated at Princeton, the University of
Colorado and Washington University, he holds degrees in economics, mechanical
engineering and applied mechanics. He is a fellow of the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics and has received numerous professional
and civic awards. Mr. McDonnell is chairman of CHARACTERplus, a character
education program in the public school of Greater St. Louis which he
helped organize in 1988. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of
The Character Education Partnership, Inc. in Washington, DC, a national
organization dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue
in our young people. Mr. McDonnell serves on the board of directors
of the United Way of Greater St. Louis. He was the first president of
the foundation for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, and
is a past national president of the Boy Scouts of America.
Laura
Nash, Ph.D.
Laura Nash, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Values-Centered
Leadership at Harvard University. Formerly on the faculty at Harvard
Business School, Nash has been teaching and consulting in the area of
business ethics for twenty years with corporations and not-for-profit
organizations. She is a past President of the Society for Business Ethics.
Her views on ethics, religion, corporate culture and business leadership
have been featured on ABC News, NBC News, CNBC News, the Wall Street
Journal Radio Report, Marketwatch, National Public Radio, The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The
Economist, to name a few. Recently her views on spirituality in
business were quoted in Business Week (November 1999). Her articles
have appeared in a number of journals including: Harvard Business Review,
Business Ethics Quarterly and Sojourners. She has written several books
including: Believers in Business, and Good Intentions Aside.
Dr. Nash received her doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University.
Dr.
Saroj Parasuraman
Dr. Saroj Parasuraman is Distinguished Professor of Management at the
Bennett S. Lebow College of Business, Drexel University. She received
her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the State University of New
York-Buffalo. Dr. Parasuraman is co-editor of a contributed volume entitled
Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing
World. Dr. Parasuraman's research findings have appeared in journals
such as Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and
Human Decision Processes, Group and Organization Studies, International
Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal
of Management, Research in Nursing and Health, Work and Occupations,
Journal of Management Systems and Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Dr. Parasuraman has received the prestigious Drexel University Research
Achievement Award. At Drexel since 1983, she has 25 years teaching experience
as well as extensive consulting experience for a wide-range of government
agencies, industrial firms, financial institutions and educational institutions.
Larry
R. Pike
Larry R. Pike , CLU, FLMI is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
the Union Central Life Insurance Company. Prior to Union Central, Mr.
Pike was Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Information at
Home Life Insurance Company. He is a Director of Manhattan Life Insurance
Company, a subsidiary of Union Central. Mr. Pike is a member of the
Board of Trustees of The American College; past member of the Board
of the Million Dollar Round Table Foundation (MDRTF); past President
of the Association of Ohio Life Insurance Companies (AOLIC); and past
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Life Office Management Association
(LOMA). He is a 1997 recipient of the Silver Beaver Award presented
by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America; 1998 recipient
of the Good Scout Award presented by Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts
of America; 1998 recipient of the Emmett Russell, Jr. Award presented
by the Institute of Home Office Underwriters (IHOU); 1998 recipient
of the Golder Award by the Bethesda, Inc. Medical/Dental Staff; 1999
recipient of the Lincoln Award awarded by the Northern Kentucky University.
He is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and has an M.B.A.
from the University of Delaware.
Ronald
J. Sider, Ph.D.
Ronald J. Sider, Ph.D., is Professor of Theology and Culture at Eastern
Baptist Theological Seminary. He received his doctorate from Yale University,
and is an ordained minister in the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ
Churches. He is President of Evangelicals for Social Action, and the
Publisher of Prism and Green Cross. Dr. Sider has published twenty-two
books including Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty
in America, and Living like Jesus: Eleven Essentials for Growing a Genuine
Faith. He has also published many articles in scholarly journals and
magazines, including Scottish Journal of Theology,Christianity Today,
Christian Century, Sojourners, Moody Monthly, and New Catholic
World.
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