Board of Advisors

Membership 2023-2024

Scot Ackerman
Medical Director
Ackerman Cancer Center

Brant Ballantyne
Company Leader & Project Manager

Warren R. Bourgeois, III
President (ret.)
Audubon Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Clinic

Thomas Burke
Professor and Physician - Gynecologic Oncology (ret.)
Executive VP
MD Anderson Cancer Network

Ryan Burks
President
RYCARS Construction

Gary Butler
Chairman and CEO
Camgian Corporation

Sue Carlisle
Vice Dean
San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center at University of California, San Francisco

Thomas Dolan
Chairman (ret.)
Westcon Group, Incorporated

Steven Dehmlow
Chairman & CEO
Synergy 55 Inc.

Bob Feiner
Senior Vice President, Global Deployment and Partner Services
Dell Technologies Services

Paul Flower
President and CEO
Woodward Design + Build

John Gallagher
Founder
Debt Exchange Network, Inc.

John T. Gray, II
Senior Vice President
Association of American Railroads

Michael Hochschwender
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Smithers Group, Inc.

Miriam John
Former Vice President, California Division (ret.)
Sandia National Laboratories

Sabrina Martucci Johnson
Founder
DARÉ Bioscience

Joel Kanter
President
Windy City, Inc.

Monty Krieger
Whitehead Professor of Molecular Genetics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jack Laborde
President
All Aboard Development Corp.
Chairman of the Board
Gulf Island Fabrication Inc.

Jean-Marc Levy
Chief Executive Officer
ComplySci

William Marko
Managing Director
Jefferies & Company, Inc.

Richard Mayer
Sr. Technology Associate (ret.)
The Dow Chemical Company

John McGaha
Chief Executive Officer
jMc Associates, LLC

James Mead
President and Chief Financial Officer
Thomas James Homes

Tommy Meehan
Technical Service Representative - Polymers Technology Division
Eastman Chemical Company

Jacob Mumm
Managing Director
Senior Vice President
Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company

James Orth
President, Director & Co-founder
ORX Resources, Inc.

John Paolini
Chief Medical Officer
Kiniksa Therapeutics

Curtis Pellerin
President
Pellerin Laundry Machinery

Shepard Perrin III
Polymer Sales Director, North America
INEOS USA LLC

Harry Quarls
Director
Rosehill Resources
PetroQuest Energy
Opal Resources LLC

Robert N. Ryan Jr.
Vice President — Global Exploration (ret.)
Chevron 

Elizabeth T. Schwarze

Katy Stone
Owner
Stonez, LLC

Scott Sullivan
Co-Founder
Center for Restorative Breast Surgery

Don Vinci
Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer (ret.)
Entergy

Dana Waldman
CEO & Owner
Waldman and Associates

James Wall
Associate Professor and Pediatric Surgeon
Stanford University

Mark Wheeler
VP, Systems Software
NVIDIA

Jura Zibas
Partner
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman and Dicker, LLP

Special Appointments

Board of Tulane Administrators/President's Council

Lisa Jackson
Vice President
Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives
Apple Inc.
Tulane Board liaison to SSE

Steven M. Paul
President and CEO
Karuna Therapeutics
Tulane Board liaison to SSE

Rusty Pickering
General Counsel
Chief Compliance and Corporate Development Officer
Ingo Money, Inc.
Tulane Board liaison to SSE

Wayne J.D. Teetsel
General Partner (ret.)
Stonehill Capital Management, LLC

Dean’s Special Appointments

David Filo
Co-Founder and Chief Yahoo
Yahoo! Inc.

Douglas G. Hurley
Assistant Director for New Programs
NASA Flight Operations
Directorate
Johnson Space Center

Emeritus Members

Burt Adams
President and CEO
OGRS, LLC

Helen Armer
Senior Director of Knowledge Management
Applied Materials

Thomas Armer
CSO and VP of Inhalation Products
Allergan

Kenneth Arnold
President
K. Arnold Consulting, Inc.

Rich Ashman
President
Charter Research

Brian Barcelo
Intl. Business Development Director (ret.)
Lucent Technologies

James R. Baus
President
Industrial Chemicals Corporation

Tad Bogdan
Author/Speaker/Consultant, CEO (ret.)

Robert S. Boh
President and Chief Executive Officer
Boh Brothers Construction Co.

Pat Borgen
Chair of Surgery
Maimonides Cancer Center

V. Edward Breland
Founder and President
The Breland Group, LLC

Carl T. Camden
President and CEO
Kelly Services, Inc.

Cristina Carlis
Executive Director
Commercial Operations at Amgen for Latin America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

William Carroll
Vice President, Industry Issues (ret.)
Occidental Chemical Corporation

Chris Clabaugh
Vice President, Channel Sales
Azul Systems, Inc.

Donna J. Dean
Senior Federal Executive (ret.)
National Institutes of Health

Ken Ford
Founder and CEO
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)

Lori Faye Fischler
Co-Founder and Director
moblog:tech Ltd.

Dave Gerstenberger
Consultant

George Gokel
Associate Director, Center for NanoScience
University of Missouri - St. Louis

Charles Goodman
Senior Vice President (ret.)
Southern Company

Mike Goodrich
President (ret.)
BE&K, Inc.

Jimmy Gundlach
Consultant
Laitram Corporation

Jerry Haydel
Chairman of the Board (ret.)
Walk, Haydel and Associates

Scott Heape
President and Chief Executive Officer
H&S Production Company

Frances Heller
Senior Vice President
Business Development
Bristol-Myers Squibb

Sam Huffman
Managing Director
Global Credit and Special Situations
Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Lisa Jeff
Founder and President
L’Acquis Consulting Engineers

Judith Kron
Corporate Human Resources Project Manager (ret.)
DuPont Company

Barbara -Bobbi- Kurshan
Executive Director of Academic Innovation
University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education

Lee Latimer
LHLatimer Consulting

Michael Lee
Director
Abbot Downing

Clay Lewis
Executive Vice President and Project Executive (ret.)
ExxonMobil Chemical Company

Bob Marshall
Owner
Vista Propane Company, Bruno and Marshall Investments, and Permian Services Co., LLC

Stephen M. McCollam
Orthopaedic Surgeon and President
Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic

Kevin J. McMichael
President
Claymore Oil & Gas L.P.

Monique Meche
Vice President
Global Public Policy and Philanthropy
Twitter

John Miner
Executive Vice President (ret.)
Intel Capital

John Mueller
President and CEO (ret.)
WestFarm Foods

John P. Noel
Vice President, Projects
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company

Jean-François Poupeau
Executive Vice President
Corporate Development and Communication
Schlumberger Limited

Vince Provenza
Senior Vice President
URS Corporation

Bryan Reuter
Partner
Stanley, Flanagan & Reuter

Rich Schmidt
President and CEO (ret.)
Aquarion Company

Amir Shahkarami
President and CEO
CASe Global Partners, Inc.

Barbara Faure Sprott
Senior Staff Engineer (ret.)
ExxonMobil

George Swan III
Distinguished Engineering Associate (ret.)
ExxonMobil Process Research Labs

Scott Unger
CEO
Kahua

Jeffrey Vitter
Chancellor
University of Mississippi

Franz Vogt
Consultant
Rain CII Carbon, LLC

Joseph Wall
Sr. Vice President and CTO (ret.)
Pitney Bowes, Inc.

Sue M. Winchester
Attorney At Law
& Real Estate Broker
Winchester Law Group

Larry Wink
Director of Projects
IMTT

Russell Wong
Intellectual Property Attorney
Founding Partner
Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, LLP

Past Memberships