Henry W. Bloch
School of Management

Boards and Councils

Making an impact at Bloch and beyond.
The advice and counsel of the business and civic community informs and guides many aspects of the Bloch School’s overall direction. Many of the area’s most respected leaders participate on Bloch School boards and councils.

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

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

Bill Bysinger (BBA '76, MBA '79)
Founder and Principal, WGB Advisory

Laura Ecklund (MS '18)
Project Manager, Commerce Bank

Dennis Ehrich (MBA '03)
CIO, CPC Management, LLC

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

Susan Escher (MBA '87)
CEO, Symphony Financial Group

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

Kelsey McLellan (MBA '21)
Owner, Camber HR Solutions
Marketing & Communications, Brown & Brown Insurance
Adjunct Professor at UMKC

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)
Legal Operations Manager, Elevate Services

Shalie Hoffman Reboulet (BA '17, MBA '21)
Senior Risk Advisor, Commerce Trust

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

Director, Business Analytics & Resource Planning
CPKC

Levi Bowles

Data Science Manager
Shopify

Pat Butler

Executive Vice President, Product
Babel Street

Matt Crouch (Vice-Chair)

SVP of Data Engineering and Analytics
UMB Bank

Colin Davis

Director of Analytics
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 Hercule

Founder
Heft IQ

Emily Huffman

Regional Supply Chain Director
Advent Health Kansas City

Matt Lewandowski

Director of Customer Data Strategy & Marketing Analytics
H&R Block

Lyle McMillan

Analytics Product Manager, Global Business Intelligence
John Deere

Pablo Palmeri

Director of Data and Analytic Solutions
GEHA Health

Joe Rasmussen

Director, Business Intelligence
Spring Venture Group

Kevin Rooney

Director of Innovation Delivery, Operations and Applied ML
ICON plc

Hunter Rojas

Data, Analytics, Technology, and Applications
Barkley

Bill Saltmarsh (Chair)

Chief Data Officer
Children’s Mercy Hospital

Joel Schultz

Director
Oracle

Todd Shutts

Director
1898 & Co.

Ann Toy

Lead Business Translator
Evergy

Melissa Wepler

HR Analytics Manager
Honeywell KCNSC

Joshua Wexler

Head of Insights and 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 Beck

Director, Human Resources
ScriptPro 

SHRM-KC PRESIDENT
Kelly Bosak

Chief People Officer
Lettermen’s Energy 

Nancy Burford

Vice President of Human Resources
Examinetics 

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 

HR ADVISORY 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. 

Lynnette 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 Regional
Saint Luke’s Health System 

Luke McGlynn

Chief People Officer
MRIGlobal 

Kelly Murphy

Chief Human Resources Officer
Swope Health 

Monica Ngo

Vice President of Human Resources
KC Current 

Pat Reeves

Chief Human Resources Office
Associated Wholesale Grocers 

Christina Robertson

Vice President, Human Resources
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City 

Julie Schaller

Senior Vice President, Human Resources
CommunityAmerica Credit Union 

Tom Sullivan

Vice President, Talent Management and Workforce Analytics
Evergy 

HR ADVISORY BOARD VICE-CHAIR
Burke Walker

Chief People Officer
Spring Venture Group 

Carolyn Walters

Vice President, Employee Experience
GEHA 

Nancy Whitworth

Chief People Officer
McGorwnGordon Construction

Angela Connelly, Chair

Marketing Communications Senior Manager
KeyPath Education

 

Melissa Hendricks

Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
Verisk Analytics

Mary Bristow

Vice President & National Marketing Director
JE Dunn Construction

Alma Azuara

Multicultural Marketing Manager
Sprint

Andrea Kirsch

Chief Executive Officer
MAKE Digital Group

Mike Yardley (VML)

Chief Integration Officer
VMLYR

 

Andre Davis

DIRTT Champion/Business Development Executive
Built Interior Construction

Grant Gooding

Brand Strategist and CEO
Proof Positioning

Corey Hampton

Vice President – Business and Strategic Development
Van Trust Real Estate LLC

Kelly Hancox

Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships
Garmin

Kelli Ramey

Vice President of Advertising & Brand Engagement
H&R Block

Roy Johnson

NextGen Agriculture
Black & Veatch

Ellen Junger

Chief Marketing Officer
Helzberg Diamonds

Chris Kovac

Digital Marketing Thought Leader, Speaker, Trainer, & Consultant
KindBeef.com, BetaBlox, KovacDigital

Delaina Lee

VP Marketing
BlueScope Buildings, North America

Jimmy Keown

Vice President, Brand Growth, Brand Consulting, Brand Culture
Barkley

David Patrick

Chief Marketing Officer
High Performance Retail Marketing Group

Kristy Lewis

National Marketing Director
Hallmark Greetings

Bruce Scott

Vice President – Solutions
Innova Consulting Group

Ted Sowle

Assistant Vice President of Consumer Marketing
Dairy Farmers of America

Andy Tretiak

Chief Marketing Officer
Executive Airshare

George Weyrauch

Founder, Rock Creative Network
Rock Creative Network

Thomas Kepka

Director of Marketing
U.S. Engineering Company Holdings

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

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