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Search committee named for SOM dean search
By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor
The national search for a new dean for the School of Management has begun with the appointment of a search committee that includes several members of the Western New York business community.
The search is seeking a successor to John M. Thomas, who announced in October that he would step down as dean after five years in the post to devote more time to the school's global business programs as a member of the faculty. Thomas is continuing to serve as dean until a successor is hired.
Satish K. Tripathi, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, said the goal of the search is to have a new dean in place by the start of the 2008-09 academic year.
Harvey Stenger Jr., dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been named chair of the search committee.
The committee held its inaugural meeting earlier this month, said Tripathi, who announced the appointment of the search committee.
Other committee members are Douglas C. Bean, chair of the School of Management Dean's Advisory Council and managing partner of Eric Mower & Associates Inc.; Brian E. Becker, senior associate dean and professor in the Department of Organization and Human Resources, School of Management; Kee H. Chung, Louis M. Jacobs Professor of Financial Planning and Control, and chair of the Department of Finance and Managerial Economics, SOM; Marsha S. Henderson, vice president for external affairs.
Also, Robert Hoeing, associate professor in the Department of Linguistics, College of Arts and Sciences, and chair of the Faculty Senate; Rose Marie Hu, an MBA student; Rajiv Kishore, associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Systems, SOM; William Kross, professor in the Department of Accounting and Law, SOM.
Also, Joseph Saffire, executive vice president and regional president for commercial banking, HSBC Bank USA; Natalie Simpson, associate professor in the Department of Operations Management and Strategy, SOM; Minakshi Trivedi, associate professor in the Department of Marketing, SOM; Niraj Verma, professor and chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning; and Hilary Weaver, associate professor, School of Social Work.
UB also has hired a consultant, Ilene Nagel of Russell Reynolds Associates, to assist in the search. Nagel has played a key role in most, if not all, of the recent administrative searches at UB, including the provostal and vice presidential searches, and searches for other dean positions, including the dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the dean of the School of Nursing, which also is under way.