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  • Executive Council and Advisory Boards

    School of Business

    As a school centered on connecting theory and practice, input is critical to the success of our students and programs. The Hamline School of Business has an Executive Council, Accounting Advisory Board, Business Analytics Advisory Board, and a Finance Advisory Board. The council and advisory boards exists to assist the school in achieving its mission of educating students to solve the challenges facing the business, government, and nonprofit sectors in a rapidly changing world.

    The primary purpose of the council and advisory boards is to foster corporate and community relationships that inform the School of Business strategic direction and academic programming that prepares and empowers graduates to solve societal challenges for common good.

    Members assist the dean and faculty in understanding developing trends and employer needs in order to provide the best possible curricular and co-curricular experience (or learning) for students. They are alumni, parents, and friends of the school who are supporters of the school and its academic programs, as well as ambassadors who extend the school’s reputation and outreach by increasing resources and methods for engagement on campus and in the greater community.


    Executive Council

    Sandy Christensen MPA ’12, co-chair
    vice president of finance
    Meet Minneapolis

    Phil Hansen MNM ’13, co-chair
    regional CEO
    American Red Cross

    Mark Berlin
    president/CEO
    Prospect Funding Partners, LLC

    Camille Chasteen MBA ’09
    marketing manager
    3M

    Robert Chatmas MNM ’12
    executive director 
    Open Hands Foundation

    Jim DeMay MPA ’01
    director, government relations
    Pfizer, Inc.

    Tom Dick ’88
    managing director/partner
    Solutia Consulting

    Glenn Ford
    CEO
    Praxis Marketplace

    Dean Friesen ’84
    market president – west metro
    Alerus

    Kevin Hogan ’80
    CEO
    Diversified Plastics

    Kathleen John ’80
    operations director/principal
    Meyer Borgman Johnson

    Jennifer Lammers ’96
    attorney/shareholder
    Briggs and Morgan, P.A.

    Lara Mowery ’92
    managing director
    Guy Carpenter

    Amaza Reitmeier ’98
    vice president commercial optimization
    Medtronic

    Will Roach ’86
    director of business development
    Baker Tilly

    Sara Schlauderaff ’87 MPA ’03
    president 
    Venture Solutions

    James Steiner
    president
    Abbot Downing

    Krista Twesme ’94 JD ’97
    senior vice president, risk management
    M.A. Mortenson Company

    Dave Unmacht
    executive director
    League of Minnesota Cities

    Mike Vallafskey ’87
    president
    T.O. Plastics

    Michael Wirth-Davis DPA ’08
    president and CEO
    Goodwill Easter Seals

    Brooke Worden ’93
    senior vice president, financial services
    Weber Shandwick

    Jim Toscano
    principal
    Toscano Advisors, LLC

    Accounting Advisory Board

    Elizabeth Alford ’98
    CFO 
    Pritchard Companies

    Joanne Bocovich
    partner
    Kelling, Bocovich & Company, LTD

    Juliet Bryan, ’88
    tax director
    Deloitte

    Russell Fleming
    audit partner
    BerganKDV

    Tyler Hess
    Principal 
    Clifton Larson Allen

    Michael Holsten, ’81, JD ’84
    tax director
    Deloitte

    Victoria Holthaus, MPA ’10
    manager
    Abdo Eick & Meyers, LLP

    Michael Kennedy, ’78
    fractional CFO
    MJ Kennedy Consulting

    Christina Larson-Oelkers ’02
    human resources manager
    Baker Tilly

    Dylan Lien, MBA ’11
    state and local tax director 
    PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

    Greg Northrop '14
    senior tax associate
    BDO, USA, LLP

    Ron Zilka
    principal
    Schechter Dokken Kanter

     

    Business Analytics Advisory Board

    Rob Burch
    vice president, business intelligence & analytics
    HealthEast

    Andrew Cone ’86
    senior vice president, state government solutions
    Optum

    David Crary ’80
    president
    HindSite Software

    Michele Deml Johnson ’86
    project manager
    Hays Companies

    Justine Fritz ’87
    marketing director
    3M

    Rahoul Ghose
    CIO 
    ECMC Group

    Eleanna Goudey ’15
    analyst
    Slalom Consulting

    Mary Halet MNM ’13
    director, central region
    Be The Match

    Brooke Neisen ’05 MBA ’09
    director, sales insights 
    Wolters Kluwer

    Jen Olson ’86
    senior director, data management
    Optum

    Jose Alejandro Paiz ’11 MBA ’14
    manager, business security
    General Mills

    Luke Salzwedel ’10
    director, consumer analytics
    UnitedHealth Group

    Cisco Skanson ’94
    senior director of technology
    Target Corporation

    Sarah Tonn ’85
    benchmarking project leader
    International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement

    David Watson ’09
    manager
    Deloitte

    Finance Advisory Board

    Robert Bang MBA ’11
    senior financial analyst
    C.H. Robinson

    Nathan Berg ’06
    vice president, payments risk manager
    U.S. Bank

    Nichole Boehning MBA ’12
    senior financial analyst
    RBC Wealth Management

    Michael Brenning ’97
    chief production officer
    Deephaven Mortgage, LLC

    Lisa Buetow
    director, banking
    Abbot Downing

    Kristin Caswell MBA ’16
    senior credit manager, Americas
    Tenant Company

    Kari Christesen MBA ’11
    senior financial analyst
    Ecolab

    Becky Ciampone
    senior director of finance
    Medtronic

    Roland Lang MBA ’09
    finance division manager
    3M

    Kirk Nybakken ’97
    director of finance, ambulatory and community services
    HealthEast

    Daniel Rickett ’88
    president
    Capital Street Financial Services, Inc.

    Michelle Strese MBA ’10
    global IT business relationship manager
    Cargill

    Brandon Zeman ’14
    interim CFO 
    BioRegentech