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| Patrick Ryan Sr. |
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- Patrick Ryan Sr. was the founder of Aon Corporation and retired as its executive chairman. He served as chief executive of Aon and its predecessor company from 1964 to April 2005. He has been the chairman of Aon’s Board of Directors since 1990.
- He has been the recipient of several distinguished awards that include:
- Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Award
- 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from "The Review-Worldwide Reinsurance" in London
- The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations honored him for his contribution to building Chicago’s international stature through corporate philanthropy, civic leadership and business
- Patrick Ryan's other Investments include:
- Penske Corporation
- The Chicago Bear
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| Thomas H. Davenport |
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- Thomas H. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College.
- He has taught at Harvard Business School , University of Texas at Austin , Dartmouth ’s Tuck School of Business, and the University of Chicago.
- He has served as Partner and director of research centers at Accenture and Ernst & Young and consultant at CSC Index and McKinsey & Company.
- Thomas H. Davenport is the author or co-author of 12 books, including “Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning”. He has also authored over 100 articles, including 13 Harvard Business Review articles.
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| Stephen W. Goodroe |
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- Stephen W. Goodroe is the founding CEO of dunnhumby USA, a joint venture between London-based dunnhumby and The Kroger Co.
- He has led successful start-up, working currently with top 20 CPG companies in the US.
- Prior to joining dunnhumby USA, Steve was Vice President, Global Customer Marketing with P&G. At P&G he set up a 'center of expertise' for customer marketing capability in Cincinnati, supporting regional centers in Brussels, Geneva, Guangzhou, Osaka, Singapore and Caracas.
- Stephen W.Goodroe has held a variety of international sales & marketing roles during his 30 year tenure at P&G including 7 years as VP sales for P&G's Asia business (15 countries including Australia and New Zealand).
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| Prof. Rajiv Grover, Ph.D. |
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- Rajiv Grover has been the Head of the Department and holder of the Terry Chair of Marketing at the Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
- He was the SVP of Business Development and Marketing with a high-tech start-up for two years in the Silicon Valley.
- He has received the prestigious O' Dell award for the best paper in the Journal of Marketing Research.
- He is the visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University , Duke University and Stanford University.
- Rajiv Grover has a Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.
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| Dean Dipak C. Jain |
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- Dean Dipak C. Jain is a distinguished teacher and scholar and has been dean of the Kellogg School of Management since July 2001. He brings more than 20 years of experience in management and education to his position at the school’s helm.
- His teaching honors include the Sidney Levy Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1995; the John D.C. Little Best Paper Award in 1991; Kraft research professorships in 1989-90 and 1990-91; the Beatrice research professorship in 1987-88; the Outstanding Educator Award from the State of Assam in India in 1982; the Gold Medal for the Best Post-Graduate of the Year from Gauhati University in India in 1978; the Gold Medal for the Best Graduate of the Year from Darrang College in Assam in India in 1976; the Gold Medal from Jaycees International in 1976; the Youth Merit Award from Rotary International in 1976; and the Jawaharlal Nehru Merit Award, Government of India in 1976.
- Dipak C. Jain's areas of research include the marketing of high-tech products; market segmentation and competitive market structure analysis; cross-cultural issues in global product diffusion and forecasting models. He has had more than 50 articles published in leading academic journals.
- In 2003, he was appointed as a foreign affairs adviser for the Prime Minister of Thailand. He has served as a consultant to Microsoft, Novartis, American Express, Sony, Nissan, Motorola, Eli Lilly, Philips and Hyatt International. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of Hartmarx Corporation, Deere & Company, Northern Trust Corporation, and Peoples Energy. He is also a former director at United Airlines.
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| William Campbell |
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- William Campbell is presently President of Sanoch Management. He serves as a Senior Advisor for JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Prior to Sanoch, he was Chairman of JP Morgan Chase Card Services and before that, he was CEO of Bankone Cards. In an earlier stint, he was Co-CEO of the Global Consumer Business at Citigroup, a 125,000 person business unit providing consumers with retail banking, credit card, insurance and investment services in 60 countries.
- Before his tenure at Citigroup, William Campbell was Chairman of the Board and President of Philip Morris USA where he spent 28 years in progressively more responsible positions in marketing, sales and general management that included senior posts in Canada and Asia.
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| Ashish Gupta |
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- Ashish Gupta is currently a venture capitalist at the Woodside fund.
- He was the Founder, Vice President of Engineering, and Director of Junglee Corporation, which was acquired by Amazon.com. He was also the initial investor in Daksh, which was acquired by IBM.
- He is a holder of seven patents and has written and presented numerous papers at international conferences, including a book published by MIT Press.
- Ashish Gupta is a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a B. Tech. in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal.
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