Strategic Development Board Members

Dennis E. Barnes, Jr.

President
Marketing Direct Inc.
St. Louis, Mo.
BA 1993 English

Dennis Barnes, president of Marketing Direct Inc., founded the company in 1997 with private investors. Because of its growth, The St. Louis Business Journal named it the fourth fastest-growing company in St. Louis in 2000. Also in 2000, Barnes was named entrepreneur of the year by Ernst & Young for the best emerging company. Barnes prides himself on giving back to the community. Over the years he has served numerous organizations, most recently as president of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and as vice chair of the Strategic Development Board. Barnes received an A&S Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003.

Tyrone J. Christian

President and Managing Partner
TRC Consulting Group LLC
Orlando, Fl.
BA 1977 Speech and Dramatic Art

Christian is a marketing and sales executive with over 30 years of diverse marketing experience in the cable television, telephone and advertising industries. Along with his duties at TRC, Christian serves as chief marketing strategist for the Washington, D.C., MLK Memorial Foundation Project Inc. Christian also served as associate publisher and co-founder of Black Family Today Magazine, Florida's only Afro-centric family-based magazine and African American Parent, a lifestyle magazine for black families in metro Detroit. Christian received an A&S Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.

Stephen M. Clampett

President, Airline Products and Solutions
Sabre Holdings
Southlake, Texas
BA 1976, MS 1978 Math

Clampett is a senior vice president for Sabre Holdings, a $3.0-billion privately held company that retails travel products and provides distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. Specifically, he is president of Sabre Airline Products and Solutions and is responsible for a Sabre business unit that generates approximately $400 million in revenue through a broad portfolio of technology solutions for the airline industry. In 1996, Sabre was spun off as an independent technology company from American Airlines. Clampett belongs to the Airline Group of International Federation of Operational Research Societies.

Anna Doyle

Centric Consulting
Kettering, OH
BA 1983 Interdisciplinary Studies

Over the past 22 years, Doyle has consulted with a wide range of organizations including Abbott Laboratories, Ascension Health, Ernst & Young, Express Scripts, NASA, Sigma Aldrich and Sisters of Mercy Health System. Her key strengths lie in managing teams, strategic business planning, business development, quality improvement and organizational change. Doyle is a member of the St. Louis Forum and Innovate Venture Mentoring Service. She serves on the Board of Directors for Provident, Association for Corporate Growth - St. Louis and Missouri Venture Forum.

Marlin F. Fiola

Director - Wealth Management
Senior Institutional Consultant
Financial Advisor
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Kansas City, Mo.
BA 1976 Economics

Marlin has been affiliated as an investment management consultant with Consulting Group of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney since 1985. He began his career as a financial advisor with Smith Barney in Kansas City in 1978 before moving to Consulting Group. Over the years he has served in a number of capacities within Consulting Group, including Senior Regional Analyst, Senior National Analyst and Regional Consulting Group Director. He earned his Certified Investment Management Analyst certification from the Investment Management Consultants Association through the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. More recently, Marlin serves as Senior Institutional Consultant to a number of institutional and high net-worth client relationships in and around Kansas City.

Linda M. Godwin

Astronaut (retired)
NASA
Houston, Texas
BS 1974 Mathematics/Physics, Southeast Missouri State University; MS 1976, PhD 1980 Physics

Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and served as a flight controller and payloads officer in Mission Control for several shuttle flights prior to being selected as an astronaut candidate in 1985. She has been on four shuttle missions as a mission specialist and as payload commander. Godwin later served as assistant for exploration in the Flight Crew Operations Directorate until her retirement from NASA at the end of August 2010. Her time with NASA was with the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where she still resides. Godwin received an A&S Distinguished Alumni Award in 1990.

Glen R. Himmelberg

Chair
Department of Mathematics, MU
Columbia, Mo.
PhD 1965, University of Minnesota

Himmelberg was a faculty member of geological sciences at MU for 36 years and was chair of that department for 10 years. He retired in 2005 but suspended his retirement in 2008 to chair the Department of Mathematics at MU. His research concentrated on processes responsible for the formation and evolution of the earth's crust through studies of mountain belts in California, Oregon, Alaska and Antarctica.

James F. Hoffmeister

St. Louis, Mo.
BS 1967 Math; MBA 1973, St. Louis University

Retired after 39 years with Anheuser-Busch Companies, Hoffmeister is committed to his family and is involved with many civic and community organizations. He serves on the following boards: The Repertory Theater, World Agricultural Forum, The University of Missouri Corporate Development Foundation and he acts as chair of the Salvation Army Advisory Board

Kent Q. Kreh

Senior Director
ACI Capital Company LLC
New York, N.Y.
AB 1957 Political Science

Kent Kreh is former chair of Jenny Craig International as well as former president and CEO of Georgette Klinger Inc. For 28 years, he worked for Weight Watchers International (a division of H.J. Heinz and Co.), starting as vice president of marketing in 1972 and retiring as president and CEO in 1999. In 1995, he was a recipient of the A&S Distinguished Alumni Award. In 1998, Kreh received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from MU. Kent is a board member of Healthy Directions, LLC, a consumer nutraceutical and lifestyle products and service company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Sally Kriegel

Kirkwood, Mo.
BA 1998, Art History and Archaeology

Sally (Schoeninger) Kriegel is a 1998 graduate of the School of Arts & Science with a B.A. in Art History. Sally went on to attend the University of Missouri School of Law and graduated with her Juris Doctorate in 2002. Sally previously worked for Corporate Claims Management, Inc. of Chesterfield, Missouri, but since the birth of her children has turned her attention to raising her children. Sally now lives with her husband, Nick Kriegel (School of Law, 2002) and their three sons, Henry, Augustus and Oliver, in Kirkwood.

David Mandy

Chair
Department of Economics, MU
Columbia, Mo.
PhD 1987 Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mandy has been on the MU faculty since 1994. He is chair and professor of economics. Mandy teaches microeconomic theory with particular emphasis on business strategy and the economic organization of industries. He has written 18 journal articles and numerous monographs in these areas as well as in econometrics, forecasting and policy analysis. Mandy serves on the editorial board of Journal of Regulatory Economics and the University of Missouri Research Board.

John H. Marshall, Jr.

President
Marshall Energetics Inc.
Dallas, Texas
AB 1949, MA 1950 Geological Sciences

For 32 years John Marshall worked for the Mobil Oil Corporation, serving in almost every geological position, from field and well-site geologist to chief geologist worldwide in New York City. In 1982 he retired from Mobil in the position of general manager of exploration, Western Hemisphere, and formed a worldwide consulting and producing company, Marshall Energetics Inc. (MEI) in Dallas. In 1996 he received an A&S Distinguished Service Award from MU and a doctorate of humane letters from the Garrett-Evangelical Seminary. Marshall also received a Mizzou Alumni Association Faculty–Alumni Award in 2001. Marshall was a founding member of the Geology Development Board in 1982 and served as president from 1984 to 1986.

Neal Matticks

Neal Matticks Design
New York, NY
BA Zoology, BS Education 1974

Neal Matticks, a native of La Plata, Mo., designs events and corporate event décor worldwide. His clients are Fortune 500 companies, international businesses, non-profit organizations and private individuals. His interests include music, the arts and historic preservation. He lives and works from New York and the Midwest.

Richard G. Miller

President
Miller's Professional Imaging
Columbia, Mo.
AB 1970 Mathematics

Miller is president and CEO of Miller's Professional Imaging, a company his father founded in 1939. He is a member of the MU National Capital Campaign Steering Committee, a director for the Mizzou Flagship Council and co-chair of the Missouri 100. He received an A&S Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996 and an MU doctorate of humane letters honorary degree in 2000.

Donald L. Packwood

IC Process Development Engineering Manager (Retired)
Agilent Technologies (formerly Hewlett-Packard Corporation)
San Jose, Calif.
BS 1963, MS 1965 Physics, University of Missouri–Rolla; PhD 1971 Physics

Packwood retired from Hewlett-Packard Corporation in March 1998 as an engineering manager for IC process development and manufacturing. While at MU, his dissertation project studied defect centers in calcium oxide crystals. This work formed the basis for a successful career in semiconductor research and development for a wide range of silicon devices including computer chips, microwave cell phone chips and infrared detectors. He received a 2004 A&S Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary professional degree in physics from UMR. He is a charter member and second president of the Physics Leaders at MU.

Wally Pfeffer

Senior Service and Sales Representative, Mutual of Omaha Companies
Columbia, Mo.
BGS 1989 General Studies

Pfeffer has championed countless causes for his industry, his community, his alma mater and his fellow alumni. He has successfully nominated 26 individuals for 26 Mizzou Alumni Association (MAA) Faculty-Alumni Awards and two MAA Distinguished Faculty Awards. An Evans Scholar, he was speaker of the senate for the Missouri Students Association, president of the Interfraternity Council and a charter member of the Intercampus Council of Students. As an alumnus, he serves on the Arts & Science Alumni Organization board and is a past president of the Boone County Chapter. In addition to all he does for MU, he has been very successful in his insurance business as a sales and service representative for Mutual of Omaha. An endowed life member of the alumni association and a sustaining member of the Jefferson Club, Pfeffer and his wife, Beverly, have a daughter, Hillary. Pfeffer received an A&S Distinguished Service Award in 2003, theMAA Tiger Pride Award in 2000 and the MAA Faculty–Alumni Award in 2006.

Melodie A. Powell

Attorney
Evans & Dixon
Kansas City, Mo.
BA 1977 French, JD 1981

Powell concentrates in the area of workers' compensation defense and appellate practice. She is chair of the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners, appointed by Governor Matt Blunt. Since 1999, Powell has been a member of the MU Chancellor's Strategic Planning Advisory Council, and since 2004, she's served on the A&S Development Council. Powell has been very active with the Mizzou Alumni Association (MAA) and was president of the organization in 1999–2000.

Andrew R. Sackin

First Vice President
UBS Financial Services Inc.
New York, N.Y.
BA

Mr. Sackin has a multifaceted background where Broadway and Wall Street intersect. He is First Vice President-Investments at UBS Financial Services Headquarters in New York. After his MU graduation, he continued studies in voice, dance and business at AMDA, The Julliard School and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

He has appeared on stage, in movies and on television. Sackin has taught voice, dance privately and taught Investments at Baruch College-City University of New York. He held the position of Managing Director of Meat and Potatoes, an off-Broadway theatre company, and was General Manager/Director of Development for Jennifer Muller/The Works Dance Company. Many of his musical compositions and works of poetry have been published.

He is a founding member on and Producing Director of SRO Productions. The company has presented new American plays off-Broadway and in other venues. He was a founder and the first President of The Student Foundation at University of Missouri. Sackin is an active member of the Phi Gamma Delta Education Foundation, The Fund for Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, The Arthritis Foundation of New York, the University of Missouri Jefferson Club and the Mosaic Society. Sackin received the Arts and Science Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.

John Shaw

Attorney, Partner
Berkowitz Oliver Williams Shaw & Eisenbrandt LLP
Kansas City, Mo
BA 1973, MA 1977 English; JD 1977

Shaw has served as lead trial and appellate counsel in a variety of commercial, product liability and securities matters, and has been selected as national or regional counsel by both product manufacturers and securities broker dealers. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America and has been designated a Super Lawyer in Missouri and Kansas. Shaw received an A&S Distinguished Alumni Award in 2005, and he was the A&S commencement speaker in 2003.

Kevin Shelton

Professor and E.B. Branson Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Missouri
Columbia, Mo.
1983 PhD, Yale University

Shelton came to MU in 1983 following completion of his doctorate and a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. He has been chair of the Department of Geological Sciences since 2004. Kevin's research addresses basic scientific questions regarding transport and deposition of metals in a wide variety of hydrothermal systems.

Gary A. Tatlow

Attorney (retired)
Tatlow, Gump & Failla
Columbia, Mo.
AB 1961 Psychology, JD 1964

Tatlow recently retired from Tatlow, Gump & Failla, a law firm that specializes in trial practice. He belonged to the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group and the AIEG of the National Trial Lawyers Association and was named an advocate by the National College of Advocacy and by the American Trial Lawyers Association. In 2002, he and his wife, Marilyn, received the A&S Alumni of the Year Award.

John C. Walker

Director, Division of Biological Sciences, MU
Columbia, MO
Ph.D. 1985 Biochemistry, University of Georgia

Walker has been a faculty member in the Division of Biological Sciences since 1987. In 2011, he was appointed Director of the Division, where he also holds the rank of professor. Walker’s research is focused on the basic biological mechanisms that underlie plant growth and development. Walker is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Mark Wilkins

First Vice President/Private Wealth Advisor
Merrill Lynch's Private Banking & Investment Group
St. Louis, Mo.
BA 1990 Political Science with general honors

While at MU, Wilkins was inducted into QEBH, a seven-member secret honor society. He was co-founder of Student Outreach, a resident assistant, the cadet battalion commander of the Army ROTC program and a distinguished military graduate. In 2005, he cofounded the Second Ranger Battalion Assistance Foundation where he serves as a board member. At Merrill Lynch, Wilkins and his team manage over $1.2 billion for 50 families, and over $2 billion for 20 institutional clients. For three years in a row, Wilkins was named one of the top 50 financial advisors in the United States by Registered Rep. Magazine.

Eddie A. Williamson

Retired
Amoco Corporation
Katy, Texas
BS 1969 Geology, University of Texas at Austin; MA 1973

With a new master's degree in hand and a Mizzou biology alumna as his bride, Eddie Williamson left campus to take a position with Amoco as a petroleum geologist. Within three years, he was supervising a team exploring for natural gas in west Texas and New Mexico. Because of his success finding and developing new reserves, he continued to advance in the company's management and became a certified petroleum geologist. Since 1987, Williamson has been a member of Mizzou's geology development board and has served several terms as chair or vice chair — he is the current chair. He received an A&S Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.

Flore Zephir

Chair
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, MU
Columbia, Mo.
1990 PhD, Indiana University Bloomington

Flore Zéphir has been teaching at MU since 1988 in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She is currently professor of French, coordinator of the master's program in foreign language teaching, acting director of the Afro-Romance Institute, and department chair. She is the recipient of several awards at MU. She has received, in 1995, a Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence; in 2003, an award for excellence in advising; and in 2004, a Faculty–Alumni award. Her research interests include foreign language education, bilingual education, Creole studies, sociolinguistics, and ethnic and immigrant studies with a particular focus on the Haitian diaspora in the United States. She is the author of three books and numerous articles in these areas.