James D. Shaw:
Retired. Recently retired after 26 years of executive experience with media conglomerates Tribune Company and Times Mirror Company. Most recently served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Los Angeles Times. Previously with Newsday in the same role and The Baltimore Sun as Senior Vice President, Business Manager. Nonprofit experience includes Vice Chairman, New York Newspaper Publishers Association and boards of directors of Kennedy Kreiger Institute of Baltimore and Los Angeles Downtown Business Improvement. District. BS and MBA degrees from University of Southern California.

Edward J. Shugrue:
Retired IBM Vice President, Human Resources - Compensation. 32-year career included positions as Director of Human Resources (Research, Services, Sales); Director of Compensation & Benefits, Europe (Paris); Director of Benefits, IBM US, Director of Executive Resources, and Director of Executive Compensation. As Vice President of Compensation he designed and implemented IBM's salary, incentive and stock based programs. Other experiences include employee relations, career planning and succession planning. Member, Conference Board's Executive Committee on Compensation and the American Management Association's Advisory Board for Compensation and Benefits. Contributed to the section on Compensation in Lou Gerstner's book on IBM, "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance." He has a BA from Fairfield University and MA from New York University. Executive Director, Executive Partners Program, William & Mary, School of Business (2004-6). Member Board of Trustees, W&M Mason School of Business (2004-6). Received the Daniel C. Lewis Award for Volunteer Service to the W&M Mason School of Business at the May 2005 graduation. Received the Jim Ukrop Award from the Mason School Board of Trustees, April 2006.

Frederick W. Siegel, Jr.:
35 year career with Alcoa, working in both domestic and international sales and marketing assignments. Retired as Vice President and Director of Alcoa’s Sheet & Plate Division. In addition to domestic sales and marketing management positions, spent 5 years living in Japan as President of Alcoa Japan, and Managing Director of 4 Alcoa subsidiaries located in Japan and Hong Kong. Following retirement joined Alcoa’s largest distributor, ThyssenKrupp for 5 years as Executive Vice President and managed $1.2 billion Metals and Plastics distribution business in North America. Recent business activities include managing processes such as Vendor Managed Inventory, Strategic Renewal, and Customer-Product and Service Satisfaction programs. BA from Washington & Jefferson College.

Brian R. Smith:
Retired. Formerly with Foremost Insurance Company, serving as Vice President of Marketing Services supervising Planning, Advertising, Sales Promotion, Sales Training, Marketing Research and Regional Sales; Founder, President and CEO/COO of Harper Reed Corporation, a specialty general insurance agency operating in the Western USA; Founder, President and CEO/COO of Transit Systems, Inc., a freight broker and forwarder; Founder, President and CEO/COO of PSI Insurance Office, a freight insurer; served as a seminar invitee of AMPC, Handle with Care Packaging Stores and Mail Boxes Etc. offering advice to more than 16,000 small business owners and franchisees; served as President of two large community service organizations; active in real estate development. BS in Advertising from West Virginia University.

Charlene E. Smith:
Formerly held executive positions of Assistant Secretary, Manager and Director with Aetna Health Plans. Experienced in Pensions, Health, Property/Casualty and Life Insurance. Extensive background in all aspects of management. Also held positions in Research and Development, Marketing and Customer Relations. Managed consolidations, business downsizing, major reorganizations and sales of business operations. Developed expertise in hiring, recruiting, training and employee development. Licensed by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) as a Registered Rep and a Registered Principal. Served on Community service boards and Loaned Executive to the United Way. BA from Morgan State University.

William M. Spaller:
Currently consulting in Telecommunications and Computer Systems, and is a member of the Board of Directors of BroadTel Wireless and Nevo Technologies. Formerly Director of Multi-media Development at IBM, where for 25 years had extensive experience in System Development and Marketing. Has served as Corporate Vice President for Marketing and Development for Adobe Systems, and as Vice President and General Manager of Communications Products for Hughes Electronics. Experience encompasses Silicon Valley, acquisitions, strategic planning and market/business development. BS in Engineering from Kettering University; GSB from the University of Michigan.

Rick Spatz:
Retired. Survived in the advertising agency business for 30 years (equates to 150 years in “agency years”). Started with the Leo Burnett Co. out of school. Moved to D’Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles in 1983. In the course of his 21 years with D’Arcy, managed client businesses, plus led strategic and advertising development for the agency on many businesses including Procter & Gamble, Mars Inc., Nestle, Roche, Cadbury, Heinz, Union Carbide and Chi Chi’s Mexican Restaurants. Left the U.S. in 1992 to work with D’Arcy overseas as Senior VP, Worldwide Account Director on the Mars, Inc. business, having in-depth, hands-on involvement with most regions of the world, including the initial opening of Russia and China to Western companies. After living in Belgium (6 years) and Holland (1 year), moved to Singapore for 5 years to be Asian Regional Account Director on Mars, P&G and Roche, working with teams in virtually all countries across Asia. Graduated from the College of Wooster (B.A.), and then attended the University of Chicago, earning an M.A. in Russian history and an M.B.A. with a Marketing concentration.

Joseph M. Spina:
Served 40 years in the insurance industry most recently as Executive Vice President of Marsh/ Sedgwick (the world's largest insurance broker) He has extensive expertise in the area of sales, sales management and marketing of a variety of insurance products and services. Prior to Marsh he served in various management positions with other brokers and insurance companies in the marketing and underwriting arenas. He has served on the Sedgwick Executive Committee as well as Sedgwick's National Marketing Committee. He did his undergraduate work (BA) in accounting at CCNY.

Stan L. Sutliff:
President & GM Protech Global, an industrial distributor/rep for valves, instruments and equipment. Previously involved in two e-commerce dot.com start-ups: Envera and ChemConnect. Worked in the Chemical Industry for over 25 years, as Business Director, Solutia Inc. (formerly Monsanto). Began career as a research chemist before moving into commercial roles involving sales, business development, new ventures, marketing research, competitive intelligence, corporate account and business management in firms such as Eli Lily, Engelhard, and Dow Chemical. BA in Chemistry from Indiana University; MBA from the Advanced Management Program at Michigan State University.

Catherine Szpindor:
Joining Thomas Nelson Community College in April 2007 as Vice President of Information Technology. Formerly Vice President of Information Technology for Sprint Nextel and prior Vice President of Information Technology for Nextel Communications. A senior executive with over 29 years of experience and expertise in all areas of information technology from production, applications and operations support to strategic architecture and executive planning and leadership. Special interests are Project Management, Data Warehousing, Governance and Compliance, and Quality Assurance and Process Improvement. BS in Human Resource Management from Brenau University and a MS in Technology Management from Mercer University.

Robert R. Taylor:
Formerly Vice President, Human Resources for Reebok International, Ltd.’s Reebok Brand. Human Resources experience in both U.S. and multinational corporations in industries including: consumer packaged goods, oil, newspaper publishing, healthcare, beverage, athletic wear and broadcasting. A professional history in nonunion and union environments and in organizations with varying growth curves, those developing reengineering strategies and those resultant from mergers and acquisitions. Published Diary of a Takeover Target for the AMA’s Personnel Magazine. AB degree from Hamilton College.

Robert E. Thompson, III:
Active. President of Micah Music Ministries, Inc. since 2001 – a Williamsburg, Virginia-based business dedicated to providing young people with opportunities to discover God’s redemptive story through music and the study of God’s word (www.mmm.faithweb.com). Formerly president of Sprint’s national consumer organization, where he was responsible for the sales, marketing and customer operations for Sprint’s consumer long distance division (6,000 employees/$2.5 billion in revenues). 25 year career in telecommunications management included roles as Sprint’s President of Consumer Services for local telephone division; President of Business Operations; Vice President of Human Resources; Vice President and General Manger of sales and marketing. Also held management positions with AT&T and Verizon. BS in Biology from William and Mary.

John VanAken:
Retired. Visa International San Francisco CA. in 1999 following 10 years service as Executive Vice Human Resources at both Visa USA and Visa International. Responsibilities included establishing the first professional HR department at the world's largest payment system. Prior to Visa Mr. VanAken held senior Human Resource positions at several bank holding companies in New England as well as President of Conifer Personnel Resources the first non-banking subsidiary approved by the Federal Reserve System for a member bank. In addition to his financial services career he also served on the faculties of The Graduate School of Business, Anna Maria College, The School of Banking at Williams College and the American Institute of Banking. He retired in 1994 from the United States Army Reserve Medical Service Corps with the rank of Colonel. He is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, The Pittsburgh Institute and The United States Army Command and General Staff College.