Corporate

Non-Executive Chairman and Board member of Cracker Barrel Inc. (NASDQ CBRL) 2011 – present

• Awarded Non-Executive Chairman of the Year 2015 for all NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies by the NYSE Leadership and Governance analysis section
• Work extensively with the CEO, management team and Board members in operations, strategy and governance Lead Director and Board member Genesco, Inc. (NYSE GCO) 2005 - present
• Work closely with the CEO, management team and Board members on matters of corporate governance, compliance, strategy, and performance.
• Serve as member of Compensation & Chair of Governance committee Board member Granite Construction Inc. (NYSE GVA)
• Member of the Executive, Chair of the Compensation and member of the Audit committee 2007 - present

Immediate Past Graduate Business Education Experience Dean Owen Graduate School of Management

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

March 2005 –June 20013 Dean & Ralph Owen Professor of Management, June 2004 – March 2005 Acting Dean

• Instituted new degree programs
  • Master of Science Finance
  • Master of Accountancy
  • Master of Health Care Management
  • Americas MBA program
• Instituted healthcare major for MBA students
• Instituted 30-day business boot camp for non-business undergraduate majors
• Increased admissions selectivity by 70%, established increasingly higher admission standards, GMAT scores, work experience, recruited prestigious faculty - all leading to an increase in prestige and school ranking from 49 to top 20’s graduate business school.
• Assembled a Board of Visitors comprised of prominent domestic and global business leaders.

Past board member, Vice Chair, Chair-elect and Chairman of the Graduate Management Admissions Council 2007 – 2013

• Facilitated introduction and ultimate creation of new assessment tool “Reflect” for use by graduate students and business leaders and executives & employees
• Served as executive committee member selecting and transitioning the new CEO of the leading graduate business school set of admission assessment tools currently serving global markets.
• Lead the recruitment of new members of the board.
• Served on Transition team for new CEO GMAT, Sangeet Chowfla AACSB Team leader for graduate business school maintenance of accreditation standards
• Example of schools served
  • Cornell Johnson School
  • Case Western Reserve Weather-head School
  • Southern Methodist University Cox School
  • Naval Post Graduate School

Prior

Associate Dean of Corporate Relations & Professor for the Practice of Management

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management November 2003 – March 2005

• Responsible for building corporate & enhancing alumni relations for the benefit of the Owen Graduate School
• Taught Core Strategy first two and then four sessions of the Core Strategy Clinical Professor of Management – Owen Graduate School August 2002 – November 2003
• Adjunct Professor Core Strategy
• Winner of the Dean’s teaching award

Adjunct Professor Owen Graduate School, January 2002 – June 2002

• Taught Global Strategy, lead to full-time appointment to faculty at Owen Graduate School of Management CEO United Glass Corporation 1999 – 2002
• Lead simultaneous merger of 10 operating glass fabrication companies with 34 plants/facilities located from British Columbia to South Florida and from New York to Southern California
• Consolidated operations, leading best practices and leading to improvement in operating income and performance.

CEO AFG Industries Inc. 1992 – 1999

VP & General Counsel AFG Industries, Inc. 1984-1992

• One of America’s leading flat glass manufacturing companies;
• Global flat glass responsibilities
• Largest vertically integrated glass producer, fabricator and distributor in the Americas
• Americas entry for Asahi Glass Corporation, the largest global flat glass producer/fabricator.
• Lead M&A teams for the acquisition of a variety of flat glass producers/ fabricators
• Lead in building a joint relationship with Schott Glass Werke to establish the largest appliance glass producer in the Americas.

Hunter, Smith Davis (1973-1984)

• Private practice

Education

Vanderbilt University 1973

• Doctorate of Jurisprudence University of Florida 1969

• Bachelor of Arts

Harvard Business School 1997, Advanced Management Program