Dr. Irving Pressley McPhailPresident and CEO
NACME, Inc.
Dr. McPhail served as Chancellor of The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), one of Maryland's largest and most powerful higher education providers, from February 1, 1998 to June 30, 2005. Under his leadership, CCBC successfully reorganized from three separate community colleges into a single, multi-campus, public college that is highly regarded for promoting academic excellence, developing potential, nurturing talent, and cultivating partnerships that benefit the people, families and businesses of the Baltimore metropolitan region. CCBC currently enrolls nearly 70,000 credit and non-credit students annually and provides workforce development to some 250 companies. Embracing McPhail's belief in open access and the learning potential of all students, CCBC prides itself on creating a holistic learning environment that empowers students of diverse backgrounds, financial means, ability and ambition to transform their lives.
McPhail's advocacy and commitment to learning-centered education brought CCBC local, regional and national recognition as a higher education leader. In 2003, CCBC was awarded the PBS O'Banion Prize for Leading the Way to Change in Teaching and Learning. The League for Innovation in the Community College also selected CCBC as one of only 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges throughout the United States and Canada. McPhail's strategic planning expertise helped earn CCBC a Bellwether Award at the 2000 Community College Futures Assembly. Most recently, CCBC was selected as one of four colleges nationally for the new Award for Institutional Progress in Student LearningOutcomes by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
McPhail served as president of St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley from 1995-1998 and president of LeMoyne-Owen College from 1987 to 1991. His Baltimore roots extend back to 1971, when he joined Morgan State College as a faculty member and program coordinator. He spent two years as an assistant provost at the University of Maryland at College Park and three years at The Johns Hopkins University, first as an American Council on Education Fellow in Academic Administration under Dr. Steven Muller, and later as a research scientist at the Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research. He served for one year as chief operating officer of the Baltimore City Public Schools. He has held senior tenured faculty appointments at Morgan State University, Delaware State University, LeMoyne-Owen College, and Pace University.
Ms. Eileen CampbellVice President, Human Resources
Marathon Oil Company
Chairperson, NACME, Inc.
Eileen M. Campbell is vice president of Public Policy, where she is responsible for the Company's Federal, State and International Government Affairs, Corporate Social Responsibility and Administrative Services organizations. She was appointed to her current position in June 2010. She was previously vice president of Human Resources for approximately 10 years.
Her career spans over 20 years, focusing on management, human resources and government affairs.
Ms. Campbell joined Marathon in 1991 as manager of Government Affairs, lobbying for Marathon in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. In July 1998, she was appointed director of State Governmental Affairs for USX Corporation, former holding company for Marathon Oil Company.
Ms. Campbell represented various companies as a lobbyist at the federal and state level. She also worked for eight years in a number of positions with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
A native of New Jersey, Ms. Campbell holds a bachelor's of science degree from the University of Maryland. She serves as the president of the Board of The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation of Greater Houston affiliate and also serves as chairman of the Board of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME). Ms. Campbell is a Board member of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston.
Mr. Rod C. AdkinsSenior Vice President
IBM Systems and Technology Group
Rod Adkins is the senior vice president for Systems and Technology Group, which encompasses all aspects of IBM’s semiconductor, server, storage, system software and retail store solutions businesses, with 2008 revenues of more than $19 billion. The company’s integrated supply chain, which includes global manufacturing, procurement and customer fulfillment, also report to him.
Mr. Adkins was named to this position in October 2009, after serving as senior vice president, Development and Manufacturing for Systems and Technology Group, where he was also responsible for the company’s microelectronics business that develops semiconductor solutions for IBM systems and OEM clients.
He sits on the IBM Operating Team, responsible for day-to-day marketplace execution, and the IBM Technology Team, which drives the company’s technical and business strategy, and serves on the Board of Governors for the IBM Academy of Technology.
Over his 28-year career with IBM, Mr. Adkins held a number of development and management roles, including running the Desktop and UNIX Systems businesses. He was general manager of Pervasive Computing, Software Group, which under his leadership developed some of the assets that are part of IBM’s Smarter Planet portfolio today.
Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2005, Mr. Adkins is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council, and the National Society of Black Engineers, which in 2001 awarded him the Golden Torch Award for Lifetime Achievement in Industry. In 2002, Fortune magazine named Mr. Adkins one of the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America.
He serves on the national board of the Smithsonian Institution and is on the board of directors for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering and Pitney Bowes, Inc.
Mr. Adkins holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with an emphasis in physics from Rollins College and a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Mr. Mark W. Albers
Senior Vice President
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and raised in Texas, Mr. Albers joined the company in 1979 and holds a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.
Throughout his career, Mr. Albers has held a variety of managerial positions in development, operations, production and engineering. After several assignments in Texas and New Jersey, in 1991 he was transferred to Esso Australia in Melbourne as technical manager and later became operations manager. He later held positions as Alaska interests manager and production manager for the Western U.S.
In 2001, Mr. Albers became vice president, Africa, Chad/Nigeria for ExxonMobil Development Company in Houston, and he served as executive assistant to the chairman of Exxon Mobil Corporation at headquarters in Irving, Texas, prior to becoming president of ExxonMobil Development Company in October 2004. He was named senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation in April 2007.
Mr. Albers is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Institution of Engineers Australia, the CEO Forum, Vice-Chairman and member of the Board of Trustees of the US Council of International Business, and serves on the Texas A&M Engineering Advisory Council, the Society of Petroleum Engineers Industry Advisory Council, and the Board of Directors of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME).
Dr. James H. Ammons
President
Florida A&M University
On July 2, 2007, Dr. James H. Ammons, became the tenth president of Florida A&M University (FAMU), which is heralded by Black Enterprise Magazine as being the nation’s top institution for African Americans.
Since his arrival at the University, he has built a top-notch, strong leadership team. In addition, Dr. Ammons secured accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education in which the board voted to reaffirm the College’s accreditation status through June 30, 2010. Under his leadership FAMU also received its first unqualified audit in three years from the Auditor General’s Office; and this summer, the University will enroll students for the first time in a new doctorate program in physical therapy.
A native Floridian, Ammons grew up in the heart of Florida’s citrus belt. He graduated cum laude with a B.S. degree in political science from FAMU and earned the M.S. in public administration in 1975, and the Ph.D. in government in 1977 from Florida State University.
He began his teaching career in public policy and administration in 1977 as an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida. He returned to FAMU in 1983 as an associate professor of political science, and in 1984, he was promoted to the position of Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs. In 1989, he was promoted to Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and also served as Director of Title III Programs. At Florida A&M University, he developed more than 22 bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degree programs, and he worked to reestablish the FAMU School of Law.
Prior to his appointment at FAMU, Ammons served as the ninth chief administrator of North Carolina Central University (NCCU). At NCCU, enrollment reached an all-time high during his tenure, climbing from 5,476 in 2000-2001 to 8,675 in 2006-2007 — a 58.4 percent increase. NCCU became the fastest growing institution in the University of North Carolina System. NCCU had many successes in fundraising under Ammons’ leadership. From 2001 through 2006, NCCU received more than $40 million in private gifts to support the construction of facilities, scholarships, faculty development and outreach programs.
Dr. Ammons has chaired accreditation teams for North Carolina Central University, Norfolk State University, South Carolina State University and Clemson University. He was recently appointed a member of the Board of Directors for “The Conference Board,” which links corporate and academic perspectives on the economy, management and the role of business in society. He also serves on the board of the National Association of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Title III Administrators, Inc. and is a member of the National Academies Committee of Underrrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce pipeline. In September 2002, he was elected to serve as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. He also serves as a member of the Board of the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
Ammons has received many honors and awards and is actively involved in the community. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Carlie B. Sessoms Human Rights Award from the City of Durham for his efforts to create harmony in the midst of the Duke University lacrosse case and the Willie E. Gary “Making a Difference Award.” In 2005, he received the Bethune Carver Dewy Education Legacy Award from SECME and the Upliftment Education Achievement Award from Upliftment Jamaica, a non-profit organization for his commitment to education. He is the 1995 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Social Sciences of Florida State University; the 1999 Distinguished Alumni Award from Florida A&M University; and, in 2000, he was the recipient of the Millennium Award by Florida A&M University.
He is married to Judy Ammons (Ruffin) and they have one son, James, III.
Michael J. BarberVice President and Chief Technology Officer
GE Healthcare
Michael J. Barber is a GE Officer and the VP of GE's healthymagination business strategy on global health. The healthymagination charter is (by 2015) to improve the quality of care by 15% or more, reduce the cost of procedures and processes through the appropriate use of GE technologies and services by 15% and increase access to technologies and services essential to health by 15%.
Prior to this position Barber, a 25+-year GE veteran, was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for GE Healthcare, leading a technology team of more than 7,000 engineers, technologists and scientists working in diverse fields such as MRI, CT, ultrasound, patient monitoring, anesthesia, life sciences, imaging contrast agents and health-related R&D at GE Healthcare. Healthcare's revenue totals over $17B and the company spends over $1B annually for R&D.
Barber started with GE in 1982 and has had a variety of roles in engineering, operations and product management. As the Manager of the Digital X-ray Detector Platform, Barber led a team that eliminated the need for film in X-ray procedures. Barber holds patents for novel X-ray system designs and has been directly involved with many product advances in the field of diagnostic imaging.
When Barber was selected to lead healthymagination in June 2009, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt remarked "Over the last four years, Mike has led all aspects of product development for advanced healthcare technologies, Mike knows how our technology can help patients, he knows what doctors, clinics and hospitals need to improve care and cut costs and he knows how to lead teams. With his deep experience in engineering and technology and his strong operations and process-driven expertise, Mike is the right leader to lead healthymagination and to grow our healthcare partnerships globally."
Barber is also an active champion of GE's African American Forum, GE's premier affinity group addressing professional development for the company's African-American employees. He is executive sponsor for the sustainability portion of GE's $30+ million philanthropic commitment to improve healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa. He has also served as chair of the Milwaukee Chapter of the Elfun Society (a volunteer organization of GE employees).
Barber was named as a "Top 40 under 40" in 1997 by the Milwaukee Business Journal, named in Black Enterprise's 'Master of Innovation' in 2009, serves as a Regent at his alma mater (Milwaukee School of Engineering) and serves on the board of National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME).
Barber is a member and former Treasurer of Sweet Communion Baptist Church, is married to Jacqueline Herd-Barber and has 2 children; Lauren (19 studying Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard) and Justin (17).
John E. Bethancourt Executive Vice President
Chevron Corporation
Mr. John E. Bethancourt is Executive Vice President of Chevron Corp since 2003 and Executive Committee Member since 2003. In the past five years, he has been Vice President, Texaco Inc., President of Production Operations, Worldwide Exploration and Production, Texaco Inc. (2000), Vice President, Human Resources, ChevronTexaco Corporation (2001), and Executive Vice President, ChevronTexaco Corporation (2003).
He also is responsible for overseeing health, environment and safety, as well as project resources, procurement, additives and coal operations.
Erwin W. Bieber
Vice President, healthymagination
BAE Systems
Network Systems serves the U.S. intelligence, defense, and homeland security markets with products and capabilities in communications and tactical networks; advanced information technology; and command, control, computing, and intelligence systems. The business, with headquarters in Reston, employs 5,000 people at more than 10 major U.S. sites that include San Diego; Burlington, Massachusetts; and Wayne, New Jersey.
Bieber started his career with Sperry Strategic Systems. He later worked for the U.S. Navy as a systems engineer and then joined the Singer Co. in 1985, which became part of BAE Systems through the acquisition of GEC-Marconi. He progressed through a series of positions in engineering, business development, and program management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Pratt Institute.
Gary M. Budzinski
Senior Vice President
HP Technology Services
Hewlett-Packard Company
Gary M. Budzinski is senior vice president and general manager of HP Technology Services at HP. In this role he oversees a broad portfolio of services focused on support, deployment, availability, infrastructure and security solutions for business-critical, homogeneous environments all designed for the customer.
In his current position, Budzinski is dedicated to transforming HP Technology Services into a global customer experience-centric organization. He works closely with HP product groups to ensure HP customers have access to the complete solutions they need to standardize, optimize and automate to keep their technology and business working.
Budzinski has a deep background in information technology and organizational transformation. Previously, he led the Americas region for HP Services which included Technology Services, Consulting Services, and Outsourcing Services. Before joining HP in 2005, he was president of Aon Consulting Human Resources Outsourcing. Earlier, Budzinski had an extensive career with EDS Corporation in different executive roles.
Budzinski has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mich., and a master’s degree in computer information management from Oakland University in Rochester, Mich. He studied extensively in the fields of mergers and acquisitions and global management at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and participated in executive development programs at the London Business School and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Arthur P. Burson Vice President, Global Engineering Services
Merck & Co., Inc.
BS- mechanical engineering, North Carolina Agriculture & Technical State University MBA, Rutgers University.
Arthur Burson's first job at Merck was as an entry-level engineer in its environmental and utilities projects group, Twenty-five years later he runs the division that hired him. Burson believes success, and job effectiveness, is quantifiable. He tells new engineers that they must work at least 10,000 to master a discipline. As manager of a group of 230 project managers, design engineers, and process engineers responsible for the design, construction, start-up, and commissioning of manufacturing facilities and research laboratories worldwide measures, he measures effectiveness using specifications and metrics, like throughput, run rate, up time, down time, turn around time and operability.
He says his operating priorities are workorce safety, understanding customer needs, and even if it sounds cliched, a commitment "to develop and build tomorrow's talent today". STEM skills run in this family. The Merck exec's dad is an A&T graduate with dual degrees in mathematics and chemistry, and Burson's graduate daughter has a computer science degree. Burson's favorite vacation, movie, book. gadget, and leisure activity, are respectively, any place with his family, action flicks, and "taking a long ride on my Harley, when the sun is about to rise. Just crack the throttle and let the V-twin rumble".
John K. WoodworthSenior Vice President
3M Corporate Supply Chain Operations
3M
John K. Woodworth has been working for 3M for the last 11 years. He currently is Senior Vice President for 3M Corporation Supply Chain Operations. In this capacity, he has responsibility for all supply chain activities including manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma, engineering, sourcing and logistics, and environmental, health and safety for 3M on a global basis. From 2004-2006, Mr. Woodworth was the Area Vice President, Asia Pacific for 3M Corporation. During this Hong Kong-based assignment he was the general manager for 3M APAC with fourteen countries and $6 billion of sales.
The main objectives were to grow sales at >20% annually and to localize manufacturing and product development in each of the countries as appropriate. Prior to this position, Mr. Woodworth was the Vice President and General Manager, Electronic Solutions Division, where he managed the $900 million division that makes flexible circuits, connectors, static materials, and electronic tapes. Beginning in 1998, Mr. Woodworth served as the Managing Director, 3M Singapore. In this capacity, he managed the $400 million Singapore subsidiary of 3M.
Mr. Woodworth is the Director, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM); Director, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME); Director, Dunwoody College of Technology, Minneapolis, MN; Past Member, American Chamber of Commerce, Singapore; Past Member, American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong; Past Member, Quality Council, Singapore Polytechnic.
James C. Vardell, III Partner
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
James C. Vardell III is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice includes a broad range of corporate finance transactions, primarily focusing on syndicated bank financings, including acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, debtor-in-possession financings and other complex secured transactions, as well as more conventional financings, such as commercial paper back-up and other revolving credit facilities, multicurrency facilities and letter of credit facilities.
Mr. Vardell’s practice also involves restructurings and he has experience in project financings, equipment financings, leveraged lease financings, synthetic leases and vendor financings.
Mr. Vardell has represented JPMorgan Chase Bank and Credit Suisse in connection with numerous financings. Mr. Vardell also has represented many clients as borrowers, including DuPont, Cytec Industries, Flowserve, J.M. Huber, Lucent, Olin, Pepsi Bottling Group, Universal City Development Partners and Vivendi.
Mr. Vardell was cited as being one of the country’s leading practitioners in the banking and finance arena in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in 2008 and 2009 and Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business in 2009. He was also recognized in The International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers in 2010. In addition, Cravath’s banking and finance practice received the publication’s highest ranking for maintaining “the gold standard for leveraged acquisition financings and syndicated credit facilities”. Mr. Vardell was also named by The Best Lawyers in America in 2009 and 2010.
Mr. Vardell comes from Columbia, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Washington and Lee University in 1977 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980. He joined Cravath in 1980 and became a partner in 1987.
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