President's Roundtable: Communication for a Digital Globe [Print This Page]
- Time: 1-2:30 p.m.
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Jesse Auditorium
- Free and Open to the Public
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Join leaders from academia, journalism, strategic communication and business for a thought-provoking, interactive discussion about how evolving communication tools, technologies and techniques are changing the world. To be conducted in a style reminiscent of public television's Fred Friendly Seminars, discussion leaders will engage with communications innovators, those affected by innovation and those responsible for continually reinventing their environment with the goal, according to Friendly, "not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking."
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Host: Gary D. Forsee
President
University of Missouri System
Gary D. Forsee was selected as president of the four-campus University of Missouri System in 2007. Prior to this appointment, Forsee served as chairman and chief executive officer of Sprint Nextel. He spent more than 35 years in the telecom industry in various companies and capacities. Forsee began his telecommunications career at Southwestern Bell in 1972. He served as president and chief executive officer of Global One, a joint venture of Sprint, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom in Brussels, Belgium. Forsee also was chair of the board for Cingular Wireless and was responsible for all domestic operations at BellSouth Corp. He returned to Sprint in 2003 as chairman and chief executive officer. A native of Kansas City, Mo., Forsee received a bachelor's degree and honorary doctorate degree in engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, now the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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Moderator: Russ Mitchell
Anchor and Correspondent
CBS News
Russ Mitchell, BJ '82, has covered the world's major news stories for the past 15 years as an award-winning correspondent, reporter and anchor for CBS News. Mitchell was named news anchor of The Early Show and the Sunday edition of CBS Evening News in 2006, and he continues to serve as a correspondent for the CBS News Sunday Morning show. From co-anchoring coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster with Dan Rather to covering the 1996 presidential election, Mitchell has been a trusted source for news in millions of homes nationwide. He also has served as a Washington, D.C., and New York correspondent, a 48 Hours contributor and Eye to Eye news magazine correspondent, where he reported from Russia, Chile, Indonesia, France and Haiti. Early in his career, Mitchell reported and anchored for television stations in St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., and Dallas. His many professional awards include the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism; a Sigma Delta Chi Award for spot-news coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case; an Emmy Award for coverage of the TWA Flight 800 crash; a National Association of Black Journalists News Award; and two Emmys from the St. Louis Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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Susan L. Bostrom
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Cisco
With ten years of experience at Cisco Systems in a variety of roles and more than 20 years of strategic marketing experience, Sue Bostrom is responsible for developing and communicating Cisco's vision and strategy through positioning, branding, advertising and associated growth initiatives. Bostrom also has responsibility for the Global Policy and Government Affairs organization, which develops and executes upon Cisco's public policy agenda. The group partners with government leaders worldwide to develop policies that will enable the deployment of productivity-enhancing technologies in areas such as healthcare information technology. Prior to her role as chief marketing officer, Bostrom had responsibility for the Internet Business Solutions Group, and organization she created and built to bring vertical expertise and Internet business solutions best practices to Global Fortune 500 companies, governors and heads of state. In addition to her primary responsibilities, Bostrom served as the executive sponsor of the Women's Initiative at Cicso from 2001-2004. Bostrom joined Cisco in 1997 as vice president of applications and services marketing and was appointed to vice president of IBSG in 1998. She was promoted to senior vice president in February 2000 and executive vice president in August 2007.
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David W. Dorman
Chairman of the Board
Motorola, Inc.
David W. Dorman is chairman of the board with Motorola, Inc., a company that is known around the world for innovation in communications. A Fortune 100 company, Motorola develops technologies, products and services that make mobile experiences possible. Motorola's portfolio includes communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility solutions, digital set-tops, cable modems, mobile devices and Bluetooth accessories. Dorman's experience runs deep in the telecommunications industry. He was chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T Corp., the largest telecommunications company in the world. He joined AT&T as president in December 2000 and was named chairman and CEO in November 2002, leading the company through profound reinvention and transformation prior to completing the merger of AT&T Corp and SBC Communications in November 2005. Prior to AT&T, Dorman was CEO of Conert, the global venture created by AT&T and British Telecommunications, and served as chairman, president and CEO of PointCast, an Internet-based news and information service. In 1994, at age 39, Dorman became the youngest CEO of a Bell operating company when he was named CEO of Pacific Bell. He became an executive vice president of SBC Communications when it acquired Pacific Bell, with responsibility for strategic planning, long distance and Internet business. Dorman began his telecommunications career in 1981 as the 55th employee of the then-fledgling long distance carrier now known as Sprint. By 1990, he became president of Sprint Business, with 10,000 employees, and grew the company's revenues from $5 million to $4.5 billion. Dorman has been a board member of Motorola, Inc. since 2006 before being elected non-executive chairman. He also serves on the boards of CVS Caremark Corporation, YUM!Brands Inc., Phorm Inc., and the Georgia Tech Foundation in Atlanta. He also was a board member of Scientific Atlanta until the company was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2006 and is an industry consultant with Firethorn Holdings, a Qualcomm Company.
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Mark Hoffman
President
CNBC
Mark Hoffman, MA '80, was named president of CNBC in February 2005. An award-winning broadcasting veteran with an impressive record of developing programming and increasing revenue and ratings, Hoffman oversees the world's leading business news network. Previously, he served as president and general manager of WVIT/NBC30, joining the NBC-owned and operated station in Connecticut in August 2001. Hoffman came to WVIT/NBC30 from CNBC, where he was vice president and managing editor for Business News since January 1999. He has also served as acting president and managing director for CNBC Europe and developed and launched the digital cable network CNBC World. In 1997, Hoffman joined CNBC as executive producer for CNBC post-market hours where he oversaw programming for Market Wrap and The Edge, which he developed and launched, along with Business Center. Under Hoffman's direction, the network increased its household viewership in the time period by 49 percent. Specifically, Market Wrap achieved a 45 percent increase in household delivery; The Edge earned a 70 percent ratings increase; and Business Center grew 57 percent. Prior to joining CNBC Hoffman had a successful television station career. From 1995-1996 he was vice president and general manager of KDNL-TV in St. Louis, where he oversaw the station's affiliation change from Fox to ABC. From 1993-1995 Hoffman served as vice president of News at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, where the news team won the Emmy Award for Best Newscast. Prior to his work in Los Angeles, Hoffman was news director at WBBM-TV in Chicago from 1991-1993; news director at WAGA-TV in Atlanta from 1987-1991, where the station won the Emmy Award for Best News Operation; and served in a number of senior news management positions at the ABC-owned stations in Chicago (WLS-TV) and New York (WABC-TV) from 1983-1987.
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Carol J. Loomis
Senior Editor at Large
Fortune Magazine
Touted by the New York Post as a legend in financial journalism, Carol Junge Loomis, BJ '51, has graced the pages of Fortune for more than 50 years. In addition to reporting on a wide range of financial and corporate news, Loomis is well-known for profiles of business luminaries like Warren Buffett and Sandy Weill, and for cover stories such as "Everything In History Was Against Them"(April 13, 1998), an evocative tale of five Holocaust survivors who came to America and became successful businessmen. Loomis has won four lifetime achievement awards: the Gerald M. Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award (1993); the Women's Economic Round Table award (2000) for print journalists, of which she was the first recipient; and Time Inc.'s Henry R. Luce Award (2001), of which she was also the first recipient; and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Distinguished Achievement Award (2006). In 1976, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury appointed Loomis to the Advisory Committee on Federal Consolidated Financial Statements. In 1980, she served as one of six panelists questioning presidential candidates Ronald Reagan and John Anderson in a nationally televised debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters. In 2000 Loomis won a "Front Page" award from the Newswomen's Club of New York for her story "Lies, Damned Lies, and Managed Earnings," which anticipated the financial scandals that have since rocked the U.S. markets. Later, in 2001, she returned to the same theme in an article called "The 15% Delusion." In 2005, for an issue celebrating Fortune's 75th anniversary, Loomis wrote a memoir about her half-century at the magazine.
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Amy McCombs
President and CEO
Women's Foundation of California
After a 30-year career as a successful senior media executive with The Washington Post Company and The Chronicle Publishing Company, Amy McCombs, BJ '68, BA '69, MA '72, moved to nonprofit sector in 2004 as president of Heald College, a 140-year-old educational institution headquartered in San Francisco, and has since been named president and chief executive officer of the Women's Foundation of California. She has received national recognition for her commitment to an informed public, courageous reporting of issues and an invigorated, innovative media, including the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, B'nai Brith's First Amendment Freedom Award and the National Headliner Award from Women in Communications. McCombs has led broadcast organizations that have earned the industry's most prestigious awards and recognitions including: duPont, Emmy, Iris, Radio Television News Directors Association and Associated Press awards. She is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Senior Executive Program. As a volunteer and civic leader, McCombs has focused on the issues of social justice, education, the environment and economic development.
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Dave Senay
President and CEO
Fleishman-Hillard
Dave Senay became Fleishman-Hillard's third CEO in its 62-year history in July 2006. During his 28-year career in public relations, he has led communications initiatives in a wide range of industries including telecommunications, information technology, food, automotive, and healthcare. For clients in those industries, he created and applied programming in corporate and crisis communications, consumer marketing, international, public affairs, and environmental communications, often on a global basis. Since coming to Fleishman-Hillard in 1984, Senay has taken on increasingly broader responsibilities, serving at various times as a group leader and then as general manager of the firm's St. Louis headquarters office; and as regional president for the Midwest, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa. In his role as CEO, Senay is transforming the agency to respond to major trends such as the convergence of social media with traditional communication channels, and the growing globalization of client communications needs. His first initiative was to "switch on" the agency by fully integrating social media into the agency's approach to communications, and today Fleishman-Hillard is widely heralded for its leadership in this growing field. Prior to this conference, Senay completed two 30-day commitments to the Asia and European regions, symbolically "moving" the agency headquarters to these key regions to underscore the agency's commitment to the global panorama of communications. Senay received dual degrees in business and communications from Saint Louis University. An accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America, he also has studied at the graduate level in the area of international marketing and is a graduate of the Omnicom Senior Management Program, a curriculum presented jointly by Harvard School of Business faculty and Babson College on behalf of Omnicom, a leading worldwide communications holding company, which is the parent company of Fleishman-Hillard Inc. He is a member of various public relations organizations including the Public Relations Seminar and the Arthur W. Page Society.
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Ralph de la Vega
President and CEO
AT&T Mobility
Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility, was named to his current role in October 2007. He returns to wireless, where he served as chief operating officer of Cingular Wireless from 2004 to 2006, responsible for technology planning, network operations, marketing, sales and customer care. Between those two positions, he served as group president, Regional Telecommunications and Entertainment, with responsibility for overall leadership in regional wireline, including consumer, regional business sales and network. He was appointed to that post in January 2007, after the close of the AT&T-BellSouth merger, which consolidated ownership of Cingular. Before joining Cingular in January 2004, he served as president, BellSouth Latin America, with overall responsibility for BellSouth's operations in 11 countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Nicaragua, Brazil and Guatemala. De la Vega also has served as BellSouth's president of Broadband and Internet Services. In this position, he had overall responsibility for the deployment, marketing and operations of broadband services. In addition, he had responsibility for BellSouth Internet Services and BellSouth's rapidly growing data support groups. De la Vega started his career in 1974 with BellSouth (then Southern Bell) as a management assistant. He has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility in Network Planning, Consumer Services, Engineering and Operations - including a rotational assignment at Telcordia (Bellcore) and was responsible for all BellSouth Telecommunications Network Operations in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. A native of Cuba, de la Vega holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a master's degree in business administration from Northern Illinois University. He also has completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia.
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