Executive Program in Work-Based Learning Leadership
Advisory Board

Mike Barger
CLO and Vice President, JetBlue University

Mike Barger was part of the JetBlue Airways start-up team in early 1999. He founded JetBlue University, the corporate learning organization, and is currently the vice president and chief learning officer ofJetBlue University and flies for JetBlue as a captain and check airman (instructor pilot). Mike attended the University of Michigan, where he received his undergraduate degree in economics and psychology in 1986. He then received his commission as an officer in the United States Navy and served three deployments flying the F/A-18 Hornet aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Dwight David Eisenhower. These deployments included combat action in Desert Storm, over Bosnia, and in the skies above Kosovo. While in the Navy, Mike spent three years as an instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). He is also an impassioned and widely published author of numerous articles on strategy, training techniques, and complex weapons systems employment. Mike is in the inaugural cohort.

Scott Beaty
HRVP, Exploration and Production Activities in The Americas, and Regional Learning Leader, Shell

Scott Beaty currently serves as the HRVP for Shell’s Exploration and Production activities in The Americas. In this role he is responsible for all EP HR support including Attraction and Recruitment, Policy, Talent management, Learning and HR support to the businesses of EPW. He is also the Regional Learning Leader for EP in The Americas. In that role he oversees all technical professional training.

Prior to this he was the Global Head of the Learning Services Practice in Shell Learning, and in that position had oversight of non-technical learning activities in Shell offices in Melbourne, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, The Hague, London and Houston. The Learning Services practice provided both the physical infrastructure(Learning Centers) and the electronic infrastructure for non technical training and development programs. He managed the project to develop the Shell Open University into a group-wide one-stop shop for learning and migrated 19 different Learning Management systems onto this single platform. He also managed the teams that provide functional learning to the Finance communities and IT communities.

Prior to assuming this role he was the Head of the Houston group of the Shell’s Group Leadership and Performance Operations(LEAP). As the leader of the Americas LEAP activity, he was responsible for business challenge learning for Shell organizations in Canada, The United States and Central and South America. LEAP programs blended improved business performance with leadership, change management and new ways of working. He has worked with all aspects of the energy value chain to include refining operations, off-shore exploration and production and chemicals. He developed ebusiness strategy programs for Royal/Dutch Shell that were effectively used in businesses in Australia, Brazil and with Shell global entities.

Other roles in Shell have included the Director of Knowledge Management for Learning and Transformation services in Shell Oil Company and implementing successful practice sharing communities of practice and virtual teams in the U.S.

Scott is a West Point graduate who served in a variety of assignments in the US.. Army to include Germany, Hawaii, Korea and in Desert Storm during the Gulf War. He retired from his first career as a Colonel.

Tony Bingham
President and CEO, ASTD (American Society for Training & Development)

As the world's largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals, the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) is at the forefront of trends in learning and workforce development. ASTD offers programs and services to help members and practitioners improve individual and organizational performance through learning.

Tony is the co-author of Presenting Learning, a new book due for release in April 2007. Through stories and case studies, he and co-author Tony Jeary offer powerful lessons that will help learning professionals articulate the business case for learning more persuasively, position themselves as a strategic partner, and tell a compelling story about the impact of learning on business results.

Together with the Board of Directors and supported by a staff of 100 and wide volunteer network, Tony is focused on helping members build their business acumen, understand the profession's role in narrowing skills gaps, connect their work to the strategic priorities of business, and help their organization leverage talent. With broad-based business, financial, operational, and technical management expertise, Tony joined ASTD in 2001 as the Chief Operating Officer/Chief Information Officer. He became President and CEO in February 2004.

Joe Bonito
Vice President, Organizational Development, Coach

Joe has joined Coach to head up organizational development at Coach. Prior to joining coach, Joe was vice president of Organizational Effectiveness and Learning & Development at Pfizer, Before joining Pfizer in 1994, Mr. Bonito was a principal at Rath & Strong, Inc., a management-consulting firm. In addition, he held a human resources generalist position at McNeil Consumer (a Johnson & Johnson company) and began his career in sales at Procter & Gamble in Philadelphia. He holds a BA from Boston College, an MS from the University of Pennsylvania and an Executive Master in Human Resource Leadership from Rutgers University.

Peter Cheese
Managing Director, Talent & Organization Performance, Accenture

Peter Cheese is the Managing Director responsible for Accenture’s Talent and Organization Performance practice globally. Talent and Organization Performance covers all of Accenture’s consulting business directed at maximising performance of people in the workplace including HR processes and operations, talent management, learning and knowledge management, organisational strategy and design, leadership and culture, and management of change.

Peter has over 27 years experience in consulting, and he works around the world with clients in all industry sectors. He speaks at a wide range of conferences and events, and has written many published articles and interviews based on Accenture’s research and his own wide range of client experiences. He is lead author of the book The Talent-Powered Organization published in October 2007 by Kogan Page that explores all of the current challenges around talent globally, and strategies and responses to those. He was this year recognized by Consulting Magazine in its global Top 25 consultants list.

He is based in London, but travels frequently. His academic background is in human and organizational psychology, an interest which he has maintained throughout his professional career.

Kathleen Gallo, RN, PhD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Learning Officer,
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (NSLIJHS)

Kathleen Gallo is the Chief Learning Officer for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (NSLIJHS), Great Neck, New York. Under her leadership, Corporate Human Resources, Service Excellence, and the Center for Learning and Innovation (the health system? corporate university) support the health system? vision to be a national healthcare leader, committed to excellence, compassion and improving the health of the community. Dr. Gallo is responsible for leadership development throughout the organization and the creation and implementation of a comprehensive learning strategy, built on a system-wide culture of continuous learning, in support of the health system? business objectives.

Robert P. Gimbl
Chief Learning Officer of Functional Learning and Development
Citigroup

Rob P. Gimbl is Chief Learning Officers of Functional Learning and Development at Citigroup. He is responsible forlearning and development of staff in Finance, Legal, Audit, Risk, Compliance, Treasury and Human Resources. He brings over 30 years of experience to the position andenjoys executive coaching as well.He regularly speaks at conferences and facilitates workshops globally. Rob graduated from New York Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Management and Marketing.

Jeanette K. Harrison
Vice President, American Express Learning Network

Jeanette K. Harrison is vice president of the American Express Learning Network, where she is responsible for the performance support strategies and solutions involved in training all those who serve American Express' customers. She is an elected board member of the American Society for Training and Development's (ASTD) Public Policy Council, and serves as the 2007-2008 Council chairperson and examiner for ASTD's annual "Quality" Awards. Dr. Harrison is a member of the American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) committee on training — an organization charged with drafting International Standards for the training and learning arena.

In February, 2005, Jeanette joined the American Express Company as vice president of the Learning Network. Prior to American Express, she served as director of knowledge and learning at Intel Corporation. While at Intel, she was responsible for providing performance support strategies and solutions to manufacturing employees worldwide. At the same time, she served as an elected member of the Arizona State Chamber of Commerce; a member of the University of Southern California's School of Engineering Board of Councilors; member of the Arizona State University School of Engineering Dean's Advisory Council; Society of Manufacturing's Educational Foundation; and Manufacturing Skills Standards Commission. In 2003, Dr. Harrison was awarded Intel's highest diversity recognition when named the corporation's diversity champion. She served as the Women at Intel senior sponsor (an affinity employee group for women at Intel), primary liaison with Catalyst, and a team member of numerous diversity initiatives throughout the corporation. Before joining Intel, Dr. Harrison served as vice president of strategic planning and business development at National Computer Systems.

Diane Holman
VP & Chief Learning Officer, Raytheon

Diane Holman is Vice President, and Chief Learning Officer for the Raytheon Leadership and Innovative Learning organization. She was named to her current position in June 2006. Raytheon Company is a technology leader specializing in defense, homeland security, and other government markets throughout the world. With headquarters in Waltham, MA, Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.

Before joining Raytheon in 2006, Holman served as Vice President, Talent Management and Leadership Development for Reebok International LTD.

She came to Reebok in 2005, from General Electric (GE) where she began her career leading large-scale change, acquisition and cultural integration efforts, and establishing and leading the Corporate University for GE Financial Assurance (GEFA), with locations in North America, United Kingdom and Japan. She served in positions of increasing responsibility and scope including Diversity Leader for GEFA Employer Services Group; program leader for executive education at GE Crotonville; and Organization and Staffing manager responsible for leading leadership development and talent

Holman earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and an MBA from Western New England College. Holman is certified in Six Sigma Quality, Cultural Integration, Change Management Process (CAP™) and Work-Out™.

Andrea Huff
Executive Vice President, Chief Learning Officer
Lee Hecht Harrison

As a member of the Executive Team and Chief Learning Officer, Andrea heads up the Learning and Talent Management function at Lee Hecht Harrison, a global talent solutions consulting company with 240 offices in 40 countries. She is also Chief Human Resource Officer for LHH, manages all people related services and interfaces with their $20B parent company, Adecco, in a shared services HR function.

Her background is in line management P&L roles, and she founded and managed the Leadership Consulting and Executive Coaching line of business for LHH. In this role she created the intellectual capital and built the infrastructure of over 300 leadership consultants and coaches who provide customized and scalable solutions to Proctor & Gamble, Toyota, Citigroup, Wachovia, Deloitte and over 300 other current companies. Prior to this role, Andrea held regional roles at LHH managing sales, operations and delivery of consulting services for multiple offices.

She also has a strong entrepreneurial background having founded and managed several successful businesses including her own consulting firm for 13 years focused on organizational development, learning, leadership, performance improvement, coaching and career consulting.

Andrea holds a Master's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis and has published articles on leadership, succession and talent management, compliance, executive coaching and entrepreneurial approaches for developing new business ventures within existing companies.

Christoph Jordi
Chief Learning Officer and Head of AXA University

After graduating from the University of Zurich Christoph joined Winterthur Life in 1989 and worked in training and in group insurance operations until 1996. He then moved on to head the Marketing team of Winterthur-Columna, the first bancassurance company in Switzerland, where he played a key role in developing ground braking group insurance products and the first web-based client platforms in the corporate client business.

Later in his career he assumed the key account manager function for the distribution channel of the Swiss market, until in 2000, he took over as integration manager for Winterthur's Japanese life insurance business. He lived in Tokyo during this time. In 2002, he transferred to the Credit Suisse Marketing team and was responsible for the life insurance business and private banking in Asia and Eastern Europe.

In 2003 Christoph returned to Winterthur and took the position as global chief marketing officer for Winterthur Group. He introduced brand valuation, innovation management, global marketing planning & controlling, global customer intelligence and developed a new CI/CD.

In 2007, after the sale of Winterthur, Christoph moved to Paris to join AXA Group as a chief learning officer and head of the AXA University.

Leslie W. Joyce
Vice President and CLO, Home Depot

Leslie W. Joyce, PhD is the former vice president and chief learning officer for The Home Depot. Leslie led the The Home Depot Learning function for 5 of her almost 7 years with the company. In her role as CLO she was responsible for all aspects of delivering full service learning solutions The Home Depot's 300,000+ employees. This includes the design, development, deployment and evaluation of all technical, profession and leadership development solutions, enterprise wide. It also included full responsibility for learning technology adoption and implementation. Under her leadership, The Home Depot established itself as a leader in innovation approaches to large scale learning and change management, receiving multiple awards to include the Training Top 100, CLO Magazines Award for Strategic Alignment, among others.

Prior to joining Home Depot, Leslie held positions of increasing responsibility with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) — one of the worlds top pharmaceutical companies. She left GSK as the global director of organization effectiveness, holding responsibility of global OE and OD practice. Prior to GSK, Leslie serve learning and senior HR generalists roles in both public and private sector companies.

Leslie is an active member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) with numerous publications and presentations to her credit. She is the founder of the Leslie W. Joyce and Paul W. Thayer Fellowship in Industrial Psychology which provides financial assistance to I/O graduate students interested in an applied career in training and leadership development. Leslie holds a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from North Carolina State University.

Steve Kerr
CLO and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Steve Kerr is chief learning officer and a managing director of Goldman Sachs. Steve joined the firm in 2001 from General Electric, wherehe was vice president of corporate leadership development and chief learning officer, with responsibility for GE's renowned leadership education center at Crotonville. He was previously on the business school faculties of the Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Southern California, where he was dean of the faculty and director of the PhD program. Steve is on the editorial boards of several leadership journals and is a member of the HR Advisory Board at the University of Michigan. He is a fellow in the Academy of Management and the National Academy of Human Resources. He is a senior advisory committee member for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and is a member of the board of directors of Harvard Business School Publishing; the board of governors of the Leader to Leader Institute; the board of advisors ofthe LRN-RAND Center on Corporate Ethics, Law, and Governance; and (most importantly) is chairman of the board of the Fisher Island (Florida) Day School.

Nancy Lewis
Chief Learning Officer & Vice President, ITT

Nancy J. Lewis is the Chief Learning Officer and Vice President of ITT with responsibility for ITT’s leadership in learning. She joined ITT after nearly 30 years with IBM where she most recently served as vice president for IBM Sales and On Demand Learning.

"We have identified learning and development as critical elements in forging a culture where everyone has the same understanding of where we are heading and how we want to get there," said Steve Loranger, ITT's chairman, president and chief executive officer. "Nancy is a proven leader with a tremendous track record for building innovative leadership development and learning programs within complex organizations. We have great confidence in her ability to help us achieve our goal of creating a world-class learning environment within ITT."

Under Nancy's leadership, IBM achieved global recognition for its world-class training and development programs, receiving numerous awards and honors from professional organizations and governments. IBM has been ranked number one twice in the past four years on Training magazine's "Top 100" list for learning solutions, and the company was inducted into the Training Hall of Fame in 2007.

Nancy serves on the advisory board of directors for the Wharton/Penn Graduate School of Education Chief Learning Officer program and the American Society for Training and Development's Learning Executive Network's advisory council. She is co-chair of the Conference Board's Council on Learning, Development and Organizational Performance and serves on Training magazine's editorial advisory board.

Elliott Masie
Founder, The Learning CONSORTIUM

Elliott Masie heads the MASIE Center, a Saratoga Springs, New York-based think tank focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. He leads the Learning CONSORTIUM, a coalition of 230 Fortune 500 companies cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies. He is the editor of Learning TRENDS and a regular columnist in professional publications. He is the author of a dozen books, including the recently published Learning: Rants, Raves and Reflections. Elliott is the convener of Learning 2006, an international conference based in Orlando, Florida. In addition, he serves as an advisor to a wide range of government, education, and non-profit groups and on the board of trustees of several colleges and national organizations.

Donna McNamara
Former Vice President, Global Education and Training, Colgate-Palmolive Company

Donna McNamara is the former vice president of global education and training for Colgate-Palmolive Company. Prior to joining Colgate, Donna held executive positions with AT&T and managed an independent consulting practice. Additionally, she is a past chairperson and Gordon M. Bliss Award recipient of the American Society of Training and Development. Donna has a PhD in education and human resources from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.

Jeanne Meister
Author, Speaker, and Consultant on Corporate Universities

Jeanne C. Meister is a globally recognized expert in the enterprise learning marketplace. She helps organizations align learning to business strategies and use their investment in learning to achieve business goals. Ms. Meister's name has become synonymous with the development and growth of corporate universities globally. Ms. Meister is an accomplished senior executive with more than 20 years experience in developing human resources strategies and learning initiatives linked to market and business strategy. Her expertise lies in human resource strategy development, workforce development, talent management, organization change, and the development and management of strategic enterprise-wide learning organizations. Ms. Meister is currently performing research on the use of the latest technologies to engage learners entitled "Age of the Engaged Learner." Ms. Meister's most recent position was vice president, market development for Accenture Learning, where she was responsible for launching and managing all research initiatives involving innovation in workplace learning and performance.

Alfred Moyé
Former Director of University Affairs, Hewlett Packard
Former Deputy Assistant for Higher and Continuing Education, U.S. Department of Education

Alfred Moyé is a business-higher education consultant. Until September, 2000, he was the Director of University Affairs at the Hewlett-Packard Company, where he was responsible for strengthening HP's ties to a select number of institutions while increasing the return to HP for its investments in these institutions. He was previously Manager of Engineering Education and Performance Technology at Hewlett-Packard.

Prior to joining HP in April 1984, Al was national educational sales manager and director of the Atari Institute for Education Research. He was also vice president for academic affairs at Roosevelt University, Chicago; and vice chancellor for student affairs and associate professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. During the Carter Administration, he served as deputy assistant secretary for higher and continuing education. He has published an organic chemistry laboratory text and has authored several articles in chemistry and chemical education journals. In 1997 Al was elected to the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Academy of Fellows. In 1999 he received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Third Millennium Medal for outstanding contributions to his field. He currently serves as a member of NSF's Advisory Committee for Education and Human Resources; and Boards of Trustees at West Virginia Wesleyan College, the University of Pittsburgh and the National Technological University.

Al received his B.S. degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, both in chemistry. He is also recipient of five honorary doctorates.

Nigel Paine
Former Head of People Development, BBC

Nigel Paine was responsible for the training of the BBC's 27,000 staff, spearheading a multi-million pound operation which provided the vast bulk of the training used by the U.K.'s broadcast industry. During the 1990s, he was chief executive of the Scottish Council for Educational Technology. He is a former chief executive of Technology Colleges Trust in London, where he set up an e-business. Most recently, he was director of Science Year — an initiative managed by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills. Nigel has also worked with companies such as CISCO and ICL, advising on global learning initiatives.

Rebecca Ray
Senior Vice President, Global Learning & Organizational Development
MasterCard Worldwide

Rebecca serves as Senior Vice President (Group Head), Global Learning and Organizational Development for Purchase, NY-based MasterCard International. She is responsible for training, leadership development, performance management, employee engagement, succession planning, and the talent review process for this global payments industry leader. Previously, Rebecca served as president of Comcast University and senior vice president, Comcast Cable Communications, LLC; senior vice president/director of Training for American Skandia; first vice president/director, Management and Professional Development for Prudential Securities' Private Client Group; and vice president, Branch Management Training for Merrill Lynch's Private Client Group. Prior to her corporate experience, Rebecca led a consulting practice which offered management assessment and development programs to Fortune 500 companies.

Rebecca also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Training. She serves on The Conference Board's Council on Learning, Development and Organizational Performance as well as the American Bankers Association's School of Bank Card Management Board of Advisors. The author of two books, she holds a doctorate from New York University where she taught as an adjunct professor for many years.

Judy Schueler
VP, Organizational Development & Chief Human Resources Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Judy L. Schueler is Vice President for Organizational Development and Chief Human Resources Officer for the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS). In these roles, she integrates the system’s human resource functions and its organizational development to ensure that UPHS provides employees a healthy and productive work environment with ample opportunities to grow professionally.

Since 2004, Ms. Schueler served as Vice President, Workforce Development and Chief Learning Officer at Vanguard Health Systems in Phoenix, Arizona. Prior to that, she served the University of Chicago Hospital and Health System for 12 years as Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, leading the development of an award-winning workforce education organization. A frequent lecturer and contributor to her field, Ms. Schueler received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and her Masters in Organizational Behavior from Benedictine University.

Rita Mehegan Smith
Vice President, Enterprise Learning, Ingersoll Rand
Dean, Ingersoll Rand University

Rita Mehegan Smith is Vice President, Enterprise Learning for Ingersoll Rand and Dean for the Ingersoll Rand University. Ingersoll Rand is a $17 billion global, diversified industrial company. Ingersoll Rand University is responsible for developing strategic organizational competencies, providing leadership education, and for driving the IR culture across the globe. Dr. Smith has over 27 years of progressive leadership roles in the learning and development field. She has led learning functions in a variety of Fortune 500 companies; including the travel, financial services, and high tech manufacturing industries. The combination of her MBA, and EdD, coupled with her Six Sigma background, enables her to leverage a practical, applied business approach to learning and development. Her professional writings, most recently in the Pfeiffer Annual and T&D Magazine, similarly reflect this pragmatism. Dr. Smith has served ASTD in a variety of leadership roles, including her current role as an ASTD Board of Director. She was most recently profiled in the September 2007 issue of CLO Magazine.

John Smith, III
Partner, Reed Smith
Chancellor, Reed Smith University

John F. Smith, III joined Reed Smith in 1991. Prior to joining Reed Smith, he had been a partner in the firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman. A member of Reed Smith’s Executive Committee for 11 years, he currently concentrated on his practice and on the administration of Reed Smith University, for which he serves as chancellor.

Mr. Smith graduated from Princeton University in 1963 and from Yale Law School in 1970. Before law school, he served for three years as an officer in the United States Navy, including service as the operations officer of River Division 511 in Can Tho, South Vietnam. Since his admission to the bar in 1970, Mr. Smith has practiced broadly in the areas of litigation and business counseling, with an emphasis on commercial matters. He has had extensive experience in the fields of insurance, banking, health care, governmental relations, the licensing of intellectual property, constitutional interpretation, and employment and civil rights matters. Mr. Smith has served as lead or coordinating counsel in a wide variety of complex matters, class actions, and regulatory proceedings.

With this experience, Mr. Smith is a frequent course planner and lecturer at insurance institutes conducted by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He chairs the Reed Smith Roundtable on the financial industry, a biennial forum that brings senior industry executives and counsel, public officials, regulators, academics, and other observers together for interactive analysis and discussion of issues affecting the industry. In 2004, Reed Smith created Reed Smith University with assistance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Smith became its first chancellor and currently devotes much of his time to the development of this one-of-a-kind educational initiative.

Martha Soehren
Senior Vice President, Comcast University
and Chief Learning Officer, Comcast Corporation

Martha Soehren is the Chief Learning Officer for Comcast and Senior Vice President for Comcast University. She has eight years of experience with the Telecommunications Industry, 25 years with the Defense Industry, and 13 years of experience as an adjunct professor, research advisor and academic advisor.

Martha is the recipient of the Liberty Award for Leadership from the Philadelphia Chapter of Women in Cable and Telecommunications. She is an Associate Member, Board of Directors, The Children's Center of Wayne County; and a member of Women in Cable and Telecommunications; Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers; American Society of Training and Development; Elliott Masie Consortium; EDA CLO Network; Cable and Telecommunications for Marketing; National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications; Who's Who Among American College Students. She also serves on a number of boards, including the Rochester Institute of Technology; Advisory Board Jones International University, and Former Member, Board of Visitors, College of Education, Wayne State University.

Martha holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in business, and a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.

A. William Wiggenhorn
President of Consulting Services, Main-Captiva

A. William Wiggenhorn (Bill) is responsible for the Main-Captiva consulting business including custom-designed executive development strategy, systems, and programs, as well as talent management strategies and systems. He is an acknowledged expert in the fields of training and development, executive and leadership development, e-learning, marketing, and business strategy. Prior to establishing Main-Captiva, Bill was a consultant to industry and the not-for-profit sector with EDA. He also served as a senior learning and development executive at Xerox and as CLO (chief learning officer) at Motorola and Cigna. He is perhaps best known for establishing Motorola University (MU) as the benchmark corporate university. Bill's board participation has included the ASTD Council of Governors, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Educational Testing Service, and the Emory University Business School Advisory Board. He currently serves on the Center for Creative Leadership board of governors, the Rochester Institute of Technology President's Council, the University of Tennessee Business School Advisory Board, the Villanova University Engineering School Advisory Board, and the Institute for Work and the Economy. Bill also serves as vice chairman of the Asia-based Global Education Management Corporation (GEM), which manages institutions of higher learning in Malaysia and China.