Leigh Salzsieder, Ph.D., CPA, ABV

Bloch Faculty Representative
Department Chair for Accountancy
Associate Professor of Accountancy
315 Bloch School
816-235-1325
salzsiederl@umkc.edu

Melanie Coleman

TallulahBelle’s

Mike Plunkett

Co-Founder and COO/CFO PayIt

Chuck Robb

St. Luke’s Health System

David Seay

KPMG

Brad Batz

President & CEO
Fike Corporation 

Don Bisbee

President & CEO
ValueHealth, LLC 

Jean-Paul Chaurand

Executive Vice President
Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation
and H&R Block Foundation 

Tim Cowden

President & CEO
Kansas City Area Development Council 

Spencer Fields

Client Advocate
Lockton Companies 

Esther George

Retired President & CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City 

Gabe Hernandez

Vice President, Transmission & Distribution Services
Burns & McDonnell 

Myles Howell

Vice President, Strategy
Bardavon Health Innovations 

Brian Kaufman

Managing Director, Founder and President
Prairie Capital Management Group LLC 

Kevin Lewis

CEO & President
Henderson Engineers 

Ed Link

Vice President, Information Systems
Garmin International 

Maria Maffry

Principal and Chief Business Development Officer
BNIM 

David Miles

President
Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation
and H&R Block Foundation 

Roger Nelson

Retired Deputy Chairman EY, and
CEO Management Consulting Services 

Sook Park

Executive Director
Asian American Chamber of Commerce 

Paula Petersen

Executive Vice President
Commerce Bancshares, Inc. 

Mike Plunkett, BAC Chair

Co-Founder and COO, CFO
PayIt 

Bob Regnier

Vice-Chairman
Bank of Blue Valley 

Joseph Reuben, MD

Chief Medical Officer
Menorah Medical Center 

Angie Salmon

Senior Vice President, Managing Director
CBIZ Benefits & Insurance Services/EFL Associates 

Young Sexton

President & CEO
WingGate Travel Inc. 

Bryan Shannon

Founder and Former CEO, TicketRX
Managing Director, TreviPay (MSTS) 

Randy Vance

President and Chief Operating Officer
Sunderland Foundation

Mike Walden

Director
JE Dunn Capital Partners 

Richard Wetzel

Partner
Centric 

Jerry White

Senior Retail Advisor
Colliers International

Roberto Quintanilla (BBA '04, MBA '11)
Founder, Veras Technologies

Dr. Dana Goldblatt (MBA '93)
Founder and Managing Director, Strategy Execution Group

Jason Kotlyarov (BS '10, JD '12, LLM '13)
Attorney, Kutak Rock

Aly Hernandez (BA '19, MPA '21)
Senior Associate, Covino Smith & Simon

Dr. Jacquelyn Irene (Jacobi) Eidson (BS '97)
Executive Director, National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute
Lecturer, University of Kansas School of Graduate and Professional Studies

Dr. Joshua Looney (MBA '08)
NCAA Division I Director of Athletics , University of North Alabama

Ricky Ogden (PharmD '07, MBA '16)
Director of Ambulatory Pharmacy Services, Children’s Mercy

Cynthia Sizemore (MS '19)
Research Analyst, FactSet

Melanie Smith (EMBA '19)
Team Support Manager, Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe, LLP

Michael VanBuskirk (BBA ’92)
Vice Chairman, Principal, Newmark Zimmer 

Kiona Sinks (MBA ’21)
Director of Marketing and Communications, Ride KC, Kansas City Area Transportation Authority

Brandon Krekel (BBA ’17)
Member Engagement Manager, Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce 

Caleb Egli (BSA ’09, MSA ‘10)
Managing Director, Crowe 

Marlo Dorsey (BBA ‘91)
Senior Consultant, State Street Global Advisors-SPDR ETFs 

Sam Kulikov (BBA ‘18)
Chief Marketing Officer, Kansas City Pioneers 

Tom Flanagan (BBA, BSA ’16)
Finance Director, Argenta 

Darrell Tindal (BBA ‘06)
Real Estate Investor

The purpose of the Bloch School’s Business Analytics Advisory Board is to foster excellence and innovativeness in training students and professionals who can deliver and lead business success through leveraging data and analytics. The primary goal of the Board is to advise, support, and elevate the Bloch School’s strategy, programs, and initiatives as they relate to business analytics, data science, and related subjects.

Lindsay Anderson

ENS Finance Project Manager
Burns & McDonnell

Asheesh Biyala

Vice President, Intelligent Automation
Acrisure

Levi Bowles

Data Science Manager
Shopify

Ramesh Buddharaju

EVP / IT Developer API Solutions, Database Systems, Enterprise Architecture
UMB Bank

Pat Butler

Executive Vice President, Product
Babel Street

Sean Callahan

VP Data Management & Analytics
United Way of Kansas City

Matt Crouch

VP of Data Services
Shamrock Trading Corporation

Colin Davis

Senior Director, Data Strategy
Kiewet

Jen Flanagan

Managing Director, Analytics & Data Strategy
VMLY&R

Lauren Frazell

Director of Data Science
Hallmark Cards

Kelly Hayse

DVP of Customer Data Strategy
Helzberg Diamonds

Learie Hercules (Herc)

Founder
Heft IQ

Emily Huffman

Regional Supply Chain Director
Advent Health Kansas City

Nicolas Klein

Assistant Vice President Network Integration and Performance
CPKCR

Chris Kovac

Founder & CEO
Kovac.AI

Lyle McMillan

Analytics Product Manager, Global Business Intelligence
John Deere

Micah Melling

Chief Data Scientist
Americo Financial Life & Annuity

Pablo Palmeri

Director of Data and Analytic Solutions
GEHA Health

Joe Rasmussen

Director, Business Intelligence
Spring Venture Group

Bill Saltmarsh

Chief Data Officer
Children's Mercy Hospital

Joel Schultz

Director
Oracle Health

Todd Shutts

Director
1898 & Co.

Jon Singleton

Chief Data Officer
Burns & McDonnell

Ann Toy

Lead Business Translator
Evergy

Melissa Wepler

HR Analytics Manager
Honeywell KCNSC

Josh Wexler

Head of Insights & Strategy
Tetra Insights

Dave Mihanovic (Bloch representative)

Instructor, Bloch School of Management at UMKC
dmihanovic@umkc.edu

Roozmehr Safi, Ph.D. (Bloch representative)

Associate Professor, Bloch School of Management at UMKC
safir@umkc.edu

Kelly Bosak

Chief People Officer
Lettermen’s Energy 

Nancy Burford

Vice President of Human Resources
Examinetics 

Pete Burney

Vice President, Business Process Management
JE Dunn Construction 

SHRM-KC PRESIDENT
Scott Chase

Director of Human Resources and Privacy Officer
Pharmacy First 

Ernie Craig

Vice President of Human Resources
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City 

Rebecca David

Chief People Officer
US Engineering 

Anissa Elsey

Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Nazdar 

Ronnie Felder

Global Employee Experience Officer
VMLY&R 

Shelley Ferguson

Vice President, Human Resources
SkillPath 

Spencer Fields

Client Advocate
Lockton Companies 

Renee Gartelos

Vice President of Human Resources
Burns & McDonnell 

BOARD CHAIR
Terry Gaylord

Chief Human Resources Officer
Epiq 

Megan Gonzalez

Associate Vice Chancellor, Human Resources
University of Missouri-Kansas City 

Jeffrey Hanslick

Shareholder
Littler Mendelson P.C. 

Renee Hensley

Director, Learning & Development
GEHA 

Lynette Huscher

Director of Human Resources, Recruitment and Associate Relations
Garmin International 

Jennifer Jennings

Vice President of Human Resources
Caesars Entertainment Corporation 

Laurie Johnson

Vice President of Human Resources
John Knox Village 

Rhonda Johnson

Executive Vice President, Human Resources
DH Pace Company, Inc. 

Deeanne King

Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer
T-Mobile 

Laura Klopatek

Vice President, Corporate People & Culture
H&R Block 

Lacy Lugo

Vice President, Human Resources, Central Region
Saint Luke’s Health System

Luke McGlynn

Chief People Officer
MRIGlobal 

Kelly Murphy

Chief Human Resources Officer
Swope Health 

Jace Noteboom

Vice President, Human Resources
CommunityAmerica Credit Union 

Pat Reeves

Chief Human Resources Officer
Associated Wholesale Grocers 

Brandi Riggs

Senior Vice President, People
McCownGordon Construction 

Tom Sullivan

Vice President, Talent Management and Workforce Analytics
Evergy 

BOARD VICE-CHAIR
Burke Walker

Chief People Officer
Spring Venture Group 

Carly Unger

Talent Development
Hallmark

The Council will serve as a critical link between the department and the community. It will help department faculty and staff monitor and understand the issues, problems and needs of the public service community of Greater Kansas City and the Midwest region and develop responsive education and research programs to address them.

The department has served the Kansas City community for nearly 50 years, yet the coming five years will be a period of fundamental growth and development as the department embarks on an ambitious initiative to strengthen and expand its programming in service to the region. The Advisory Council is a vital source of intelligence, insight and support to the department as we develop our next generation of programming.

The Advisory Council is a key leadership group designed to provide guidance and feedback on department programs and activities. It advises and works with the department and its faculty and staff on program development, strategic communication and marketing and multi-year strategy and resource planning. An active and vital Advisory Council is instrumental to enabling the department to ensure that it continues to be a cutting-edge, high value community resource. Members of the Advisory Council hold key positions in various business, nonprofit organizations and local government bodies in the Greater Kansas city area. Current Advisory Council members include:

Deidre Anderson

Executive Director
United Inner City Services

Suzie Aron

President
Crossroads Community Association

Alex Benson

Sr. Director, Corporate Development
Cerner Corporation

Irene Caudillo

President/CEO
El Centro

Bill Ebel

City Manager
City of Overland Park, KS

Roger Edgar

Retired
Formerly George K Baum & Co
UMKC

Jim Giles

Consultant
Formerly City of KCMO

Phil Glynn

President
Travois

Sherri Lozano

Executive Director
JDRF Kansas & Missouri Chapter

Carol Marinovich

Instructor
Formerly Mayor Wyandotte County
Donnelly College

Mark McHenry

Retired Former Director
KCMO Parks and Recreation Dept

Felicity Pino

Director, Continuous Improvement
Children’s Mercy

Annie Presley Author

Author
Formerly McKellar Group

Steve Roling

Retired
Formerly Health Care Foundation of GKC

Mari Ruck

Commissioner of Revenue Finance Dept.
City of KCMO

Stacia Stelk

Executive Director
Ripple Glass

Shari Stimetz

Retired
Formerly Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

Arzie Umali

Assistant Director
UMKC’s Women’s Center

David Warm

Executive Director
Mid-America Regional Council (MARC)

Gene Wilson

Consultant
Formerly Kauffman Foundation

The Regnier Institute Advisory Council is a by-invitation group of successful business leaders representing an array of industries who are devoted to fostering the growth of entrepreneurship globally and in Kansas City. Members of the council serve in an advisory role with respect to the continued success of The “Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (RIEI), within the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at The University of Missouri-Kansas City. The Council supports the RIEI and its mission to inspire and nurture entrepreneurs and innovators through transformational education, research, and programs designed to accelerate early startups from ideas to sustainable launch in a safe environment of learning, experimenting and mentoring. Additionally, the council celebrates entrepreneurship each year by planning the Entrepreneur of the Year event, which celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit by honoring innovative and creative accomplishments, as well as inspiring a new generation of successful entrepreneurs.

Mary S. Bloch

Civic Leader

Randolph Buseman

Retired Partner at Ernst & Young, Kansas City Office

Tom Collins

COO of Dimensional Innovations

Chad Feather

Fund Analyst of KCRise Fund

Jordan Garcia

President of JNA Advertising

Donald Hawkins

Co-Organizer of KC Collective

Walt Lane

Founding Partner and President of NetStandard Inc.

Benny Lee

CEO of Duracomm

Maria Meyers

Director of UMKC’s Innovation Center and Founder of KCSourceLink

Zach Pettet

NBKC Bank

Brett Posten

Highline + Partners, Principal

Robert Sprague

Senior Vice President of Lockton Companies

Ryan Sprott

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Great Range Capital

Anne St. Peter

Co-chair Advisory Council
Founder of Global Prairie

Evan Stewart

Retired Vice President and CIO at B/E Aerospace

James Stowers III

Owner and Founder of Oxford Companies