Board of Visitors

August 7, 2006

The Pratt School of Engineering Board of Visitors is comprised of some of the school's most distinguished alumni and friends. Their role is to provide advice and counsel in the areas of long range planning, the undergraduate and graduate programs, fundraising, and public relations. The primary expectations of the board and of its members include exerting a positive influence within the school and the university by, for example, providing advice and counsel to the Dean and senior staff in all aspects of the School; serving as a conduit between students, faculty and administration; shaping and supporting the school's position within the university.


  • Mr. Brian F. Addy, BSE'86, Ad-Venture Capital Management, LLC

  • Dr. Robert W. Anderson (Bob), BSCE’59, Chairman/Professor, Duke University Medical Center

  • Mr. D. Theodore Berghorst (Ted), P'04, P'09, Principal, Vector Securities, LLC

  • Mr. Michael J. Bingle (Mike), BSE'94, Managing Director, Silver Lake Partners

  • Mr. Stephen R. Bolze (Steve), BSE'85, President, General Electric

  • Mr. Barry Norman Bycoff, P'06, P'09, Venture Partner, Pequot Ventures

  • Mr. Clarence J. Chandran, P'07, Chairman, Conros Corporation, Retired COO, Nortel Networks

  • Mr. Stephen C. Coley (Steve), BSEE'67, Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.

  • Dr. Douglas A. Cotter (Doug), BSEE'65, President, Healthcare Decisions, Inc.

  • Mr. Charles T. Davidson (Charlie), Retired, Chairman of the Board, J.A. Jones, Inc.

  • Mr. Daniel McKenzie Dickinson (Dan), BSE'83, Managing Partner, Thayer Capital Partners

  • Mr. Ronald W. Dollens, P'01, Dollens Family

  • Mr. Fred M. Fehsenfeld, Jr., BSSE'73, Managing Trustee, The Heritage Group

  • Dr. Michael Robert Feldman (Mike), BSE'84, President, Digital Optics Corporation

  • Dr. Marla J. Franks, BSE'80, Pathologist, Wellstar Cobb Hospital-Laboratory

  • Mr. James H. Frey (Jim), BSEE'60, Retired, Litton Industries, Senior Vice President, Information Systems Group

  • Dr. Don P. Giddens, Dean, College of Engineering, Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair in Bioengineering, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mr. Jonathan M. Guerster (Jon), BSE'86, CEO, Groom EnergySolutions

  • Mrs. Elizabeth D. Hanson (Libby), WC'61, Civic Volunteer

  • Mr. R. Keith Harrison, Jr., BSE'70, CEO, Proctor & Gamble (11-C, G.O.)

  • Mr. Philip J. Hawk (Phil), BSE'76, Chairman and CEO, Team Inc.

  • Mr. William A. Hawkins III (Bill), BSE'76, President and Chief Operating Officer, Medtronic World Headquarters

  • Mr. Ozey K. Horton, Jr., BSE'73, Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.

  • Mr. Vinay J. Jayaram, BSE'96, Financial Analyst, Morgan Stanley

  • Dr. Alan L. Kaganov, BSME'60, Partner, U.S. Venture Partners

  • Dr. Clinton W. Kelly III (Clint), BSEE'59, Senior Vice President, SAIC

  • Mr. Theodore C. Kennedy (Ted), BSCE'52, Founder, BE&K, Inc.

  • Dr. Stacy Stansell Klein, BSE'91, Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

  • Mr. Lawrence J. Lang (Larry), BSE'86, Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Wireless Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.

  • Dr. Jack Lee, P'01, P'02, P'03, P'04, President & CEO, JAMCO Aerospace, Inc.

  • Mrs. Valerie Marx Love, BSE'94

  • Mr. James R. Lowry (J.R.), BSE'88, VP, Strategy and Planning, Fidelity Investments

  • Dr. Robert C. Marlay (Bob), BSEE'69, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Deputy Director, U.S. Climate Change, Technology Program, U.S. Department of Engergy

  • Dr. David P. McCallie, Jr., BSE'75, Physician/V.P. Medical Informatics, Cerner

  • Ms. Martha Monserrate McDade, BSE'81, MS'82, President, Environmental Excellence Engineering P.C.

  • Mr. Capers W. McDonald, BSE'74, Executive in Residence, Johns Hopkins University

  • Mr. George E. Murphy, BSE'77, MS'80, SVP-Global Brand Marketing, DaimlerChrysler Corporation

  • Mr. Bechara Chawkat Nammour, P'07, P'09, Chairman and CEO, Capital Restaurant Concepts, LTD.

  • Mr. Thomas A. Natelli, BSE'82, CEO/President, Natelli Communications

  • Mr. Lionel W. Neptune, BSE'82, Vice-President - Affiliates, The Washington Post Company

  • Mr. Richard B. Parran, Jr. (Dick), BSE'79, President, ADC Professional Services

  • Mr. Frederic M. Poses (Fred), P'06, Chairman and CEO, American Standard Companies, Inc.

  • Mr. David Lloyd Pratt, BSE'85, Marketing Business Leader, Progressive Insurance

  • Mr. Keith Taylor Pratt, Chairman, Shared Vision, Inc.

  • Mrs. Mary Ott Price, BSE'82, Executive Recruiter, Russell Reynolds Associates

  • Mr. David L. Pugh (Dave), BSE'71, Chairman and CEO, Applied Industrial Technologies

  • Mrs. Janis J. Rehlaender, BSE'77, Retired, Director of Corporate Planning, Baxter International, Chairman, Darien, CT. Board of Education

  • Mr. Christopher M. Relyea (Chris), BSE'80, President, Concept Engineering

  • Mr. William I. Riker, Jr. (Bill), BSE'82, President & Chief Operating Officer, Renaissance House

  • Mr. Paul R. Scarborough, BSE'72, President, Carolina Foods, Inc.

  • Mr. Kenneth T. Schiciano (Ken), BSE'84, Managing Director, TA Associates

  • Mrs. Elizabeth Franklin Sechrest (Betsy), BSE'79, CEO & Founder, The Franklin Report, Partner, Allgood Capital Partners

  • Mr. J. Stephen Simon (Steve), BSCE'65, Senior Vice President, Exxon Mobil Corporation

  • Mr. Swen C. Soderstrom, Jr. (Carl), BSE'74, Retired/Chief Financial Officer, Arvin Meritor

  • Mr. David P. Spearman (Dave), BSE'77, President, Radamerica Inc.

  • Mr. Jeffrey I. Spiritos (Jeff), BSE'76, Spiritos Properities, LLC.

  • Mr. James L. Stuart ESQ (Jim), BSE'71, Attorney, Stuart Law Firm, PLLC

  • Mrs. Cynthia P. Walden (Cindy), BSE'80

  • Mr. Michael S. Walsh, Jr. (Mike), BSCE'65, Retired, President & CEO, Vapor Technologies, Inc.

  • Dr. Seth Alain Watkins, BSCE'92, G'93, G'96, L'99, Special Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

  • Mr. John H. Weber, P'08, President and CEO, Remy International, Inc.

  • Mr. Jerry C. Wilkinson, BSEE'67, President, The Wilkinson Group, Inc.

  • Mr. Harold L. Yoh III (Hal), BSE'83, Chairman and CEO, The Day & Zimmermann Group, Inc.

  • Mr. William H. Younger, Jr. (Bill), P'03, P'06, Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures

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Deborah Hill, Director of Communications, 415 Teer Engineering Building, 919-660-8403, dahill@duke.edu