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.
The advisory council is made up of the following members:
Steven Alexander, Business Development Executive, Quest Diagnostics
Rob Berard, Director of Finance & Human Resources, Kansas Wheat Commission
John Bridson, Senior Vice President, Generation and Operations Support, Evergy
Kristin Brighton, Principal, New Boston Creative Group LLC
Matt Crocker, President, Steel & Pipe Supply Co
Shawn Drew, Market President & Chief Executive Officer, Commerce Bank Manhattan
Jamshid Ebadi, Vice President, Kodiak Solutions
Justin Eck, Vice President of Operations, Wagner Logistics
Kelly Hancox, Senior Director of Global Partnerships & Engineering Business Development, Garmin
John Keh, Founder, Trinity Venture Capital & Run The Chain
Jesse Knight, Purchasing Manager, Foot Locker
Bret Lanz, Commercialization Director, Technology Development Institute
Michael Leikam, President & Chief Executive Officer, Centralized Supply Chain Services LLC
Lee K. Levy II, Ed.D., NACD.DC, Senior Vice President, American Global Strategies
Jeff Martin, Vice President of Community Operations, Evergy
Tom Ogle, Chief Financial Officer, AIB International
Karyn Page, Commercial Banking Consultant, INTRUST Bank
Brian Rempe, President, CivicPlus
Travis Rhoades, Executive Vice President of Analytics & Intelligence, AdPredictive
Piyush Sarwal, Ph.D., Principal, Generative OSS
Philip Sears, Vice President of Quality Engineering Solutions, SQA Group
David Sedlock, Chief Data Officer, Zayo
Chris Tatham, Owner & Chief Executive Officer, ETC Institute
Christian Tatham, Vice President of Operations, & Research, ETC Institute
Chris Trumble, Senior Vice President, Baird Private Wealth Management
Douglas Von Feldt, Crimson Corporation
Graduate Study Advisory Council Impact
The following table provides some examples of what the members have done to support the programs.
|
Company |
Recruitment |
Student |
Faculty |
Lecture |
Internships/ |
|
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 |