Business Advisory Council 07-08

Richard Amos, ’86, ’92
COLSA

Thomas A. Baumbach
Dynetics, Inc.

Edward H. Blankenship
Avocent

James T. Bolte
Toyota Motor Manufacturing

David S. Branham, ’76, ’78
U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command

Frank M. Caprio, ’87
Bradley Arant Rose & White, LLP

Ed Childress, ’78
Syncro Corp.

Art Cogswell
The Boeing Co.

Pamela Hanes Cucarola, ’85
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center

John Eagan
Wachovia Bank

David B. Edwards, ’85
Hamlett Property Management

Andy Kattos, ’92
ServisFirst Bank

Michael Kirkpatrick, ’00
DESE Research

John McMullan, ’87
Colonial Bank

David Milly, ’76
Theatrical Lighting Systems, Inc.

BG (Ret.) Daniel Montgomery
Northrop Grumman Corp.

Sharon Morgan, ’86

Donald W. Nalley, Jr.
Beason & Nalley, Inc.

Frank Pitts, ’81
Quantum Research International, Inc.

Brian K. Pollock
Open Biosystems

W. Evans Quinlivan
First American Bank

S. Dagnal Rowe
Wilmer, Lee, Rowe, Cates, Fohrell & Kelly, PA

Scott Seeley, ’85
Regions Bank

Cheryl Smith, ’83
United Cerebral Palsy

Frederiek Toney, ’76
Ford Motor Co.

Richard Tucker
Huntsville-Madison Co. Airport Authority

Irma Tuder
Analytical Services, Inc.

Jamison K. Wagner
Smith Asset Management Co.

William B. Watson, Jr.
James Wessel, ’98

Brindley Mountain Fire Apparatus LLC
Lisa Williams, ’85

Tom Young
Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Stephen P. Zelnak, Jr., ’73
Martin Marietta Materials

BG (Ret.) John Zierdt, Jr. Orbital Sciences Corp.

Table of Contents

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Letter from the dean, p 2

UAH creates center for economic education, p. 3

UAH among top business schools, p. 4

BAC discusses integrating business center into CBA, p. 5

CMER moves into Shelby Center, p. 6

Accounting and finance advisory board formed, p. 7

Gupta elected HATS v.p., p. 8

Greenwood is new director of leadership development, p. 9

Berkowitz chairing management and marketing, p. 10

Ballenger named CMOST director, p. 11

UAH looks for the next big business idea, p. 12

UAH students study Army inventions, p. 13

College, MSM get new names, p. 14

Simpson named distinguished professor, p. 15

Simpson appointed business school dean, p. 16

Bill Souder honored as leading scholar, p. 17

David Billings retires after 26 years as dean, p. 18

‘The school … was a factory,’ p. 19

Dr. Edward Stafford, Jr., 1942 - 2007, p. 20

UAH remembers Dr. Ben Graves, p. 21

Family endows Mark Smith scholarship fund, p. 22

Building friends, one web blog at a time, p. 23