Graduate Studies Advisory Council

The college has developed a Graduate Studies Advisory Council that serves as a critical partner to various aspects of its graduate programs. The council works with the college's faculty to gain an understanding of the current status of the college’s graduate programs, and to discuss different opportunities for developing a win-win partnership between the council members and the graduate programs.

Fall 2023 Advisory Council

The advisory council is made up of the following members:

Steven D. Alexander Business Development Executive Quest Diagnostics
Rob Berard Director of Finance & Human Resources Kansas Wheat Commission
Matt Crocker President Steel & Pipe Supply Co
Brent Depperschmidt President & Managing Partner Tallgrass Capital Investments
Shawn Drew Marketing President & CEO Commerce Bank Manhattan
Jamshid Ebadi Principal Crowe LLP
Justin Eck VP of Operations Wagner Logistics
Adam Glendening CFO Champion Teamwear
Chris Gutierrez President KC SmartPort
Kelly Hancox Sr. Director of Global Partnerships & Engineering Business Development Garmin
John Keh Founder Runthechain, Hong Kong
Bret Lanz Commercialization Manager Technology Development Institute
Benny Lee CEO Duracomm
Mike Leikam President/CEO the Centralized Supply Chain Services
Lynn Lin President Lynn Y.S. Lin Consulting, Inc.
Jacob Lynn Manager, It Data & Analytics Textron Aviation
Jeff Martin VP of Community Operations Evergy
Tom Ogle CFO AIB International
Brian Rempe President CivicPlus
Travis Rhoades EVP of Analytics & Intelligence ADPredictive
Jim Roy VP, HR Strategy Percipio
Piyush Sarwal, PhD VP of Product Mangement & Engineering Oracle
Philip Sears VP of Quality Engineering Solutions SQA Group
David Sedlock Chief Data Officer (CDO) AT&T
Nate Spriggs HR Reporting, Analytics & Automation Koch Business Solutions, LP
Chris Tatham Owner and CEO ETC Institute
Chris Trumble Senior Vice President Baird Private Weath Management
Douglas Von Feldt Partner Crimson Corporation
Gautam Vyas Enterprise Alliances Executive Equifax
Bradley Waller VP & Office Manager Alfred Benesch & Company
Ken Williams Director of Licensing/Business Development KSU Institute for Commercialization
Chenlung Yang CEO Chin Yeh Foods Corporation, Taiwan

Graduate Study Advisory Council Impact

The following table provides some examples of what the members have done to support the programs.

Company

Recruitment

Student
Projects

Faculty
Projects

Lecture

Internships/
jobs

CSCS

X

X

X

X

X

ETC

X

X

 

X

 

AT&T

X

X

 

X

X

SPS

X

X

X

X

X

AIB

X

X

X

 

 

John Deere

X

X

 

 

 

CivicPlus

X

X

 

X

X

Textron Aviation

X

 

 

X

X