Board of Directors

• Alfonzo Alexander

  

  Mr. Alfonzo Alexander, Vice Chair

  Chief Ethics & Diversity Officer of NASBA, and President of NASBA’s Center for the Public Trust
  Nolensville, Tennessee
  Tech Alumnus: Business Administration, B.S. ’91, MBA from Lipscomb ‘07

• Kevin H. Braswell

  

  Dr. Kevin H. Braswell, Executive Director and Secretary

  Vice President for University Advancement at Tennessee Technological University
  Cookeville, Tennessee

• Nathan Burton

  Mr. Nathan Burton, Director

  Director of Application Management, Pinnacle Financial Partners
  Franklin, Tennessee
  Tech Alumnus: Business Administration, B.S. ’93, MBA from Lipscomb ‘16

• Teresa Chasteen-Dunn

  Teresa Chasteen-Dunn, Director

  President & CE of WIN Learning
  Cookeville, Tennessee
  Alumna: University of Tennessee, B.S. ’81, M.A. ’82, Ed.D. ’85, Ph.D. ’90 and Kennedy School of Education Policy at Harvard University ‘10

• David Cooley

  

  Mr. David Cooley, Director and Former Chair

  Principal of Cooley Public Strategies
  Brentwood, Tennessee
  Tech Alumnus: Education, B.S. '84

• Mary Graves

  

  Dr. Mary Graves, Director

  Former Executive Director of Hoffmann-La Roche
  Nutley, New Jersey
  Tech Alumna: Chemistry, B.S. '76

• Trudy Harper

  

  Ms. Trudy Harper, Director

  Founder and former President of Tenaska Power Services Company
  Soddy Daisy, Tennessee
  Tech Alumna: Electrical Engineering, B.S. '83, M.S. '84

• Thomas Hudson

  

  Mr. Thomas Hudson, Director and Former Chair

  Former President of Matteson-Hudson Construction
  Nashville, Tennessee
  Alumnus: Georgia Tech '73 and Darden School University of Virginia '75

• Ashraf Islam

  

  Mr. Ashraf Islam, Director

  CEO of AIA Engineers, Ltd.
  Katy, Texas
  Tech Alumnus: Engineering, B.S. '68

• Tom Jones

  

  Mr. Tom Jones, Director and Former Chair

  President, Research Electronics International
  Cookeville, Tennessee
  Tech Alumnus: Electrical Engineering, B.S. '86

• Fred Lowery

  

  Mr. Fred Lowery, Director

  Senior Vice President and President of Life Sciences Solutions and Laboratory Products, Thermo Fisher Scientific
  Boston, Massachusetts
  Tech Alumnus: Mechanical Engineering, B.S. '94

• Allen McCampbell

  

  Mr. Allen McCampbell, Director

  Former Senior Vice President of American General Life & Accident Insurance
  Erin, Tennessee
  Tech Alumnus: Business Administration, B.S. '65

• M. Dianne Murphy

  

  Dr. M. Dianne Murphy, Chair

  Vice President of the PICTOR Group
  Former Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education at Columbia University
  Cookeville, Tennessee
  Tech Alumna: Health & Phys. Ed., B.S. '72, M.A. '73

• Amy New

  Ms. Amy New, Vice Chair-Elect

  President & CEO of the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce
  Cookeville, Tennessee
  Tech Alumna: Business Administration, B.S. ’08, Master’s in Leadership and Public Policy from Lipscomb ‘21

• Philip Oldham

  

  Dr. Philip Oldham, Co-Chair

  President of Tennessee Technological University
  Cookeville, Tennessee

• Chris Privon

  

  Mr. Chris Privon, Director

  Former Vice President of Imaging and Printing Group Services
  Boise, Idaho
  Tech Alumnus: Mechanical Engineering, B.S. '79

• John Rose

  

  Mr. John Rose, Director and Former Chair

  U.S. Representative for Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District
  President of Boson Software
  Cookeville, Tennessee
  Tech Alumnus: Agriculture, B.S. '88

• Claire Stinson

  

  Dr. Claire Stinson, Treasurer

  Vice President for Planning and Finance at Tennessee Technological University 
  Cookeville, Tennessee

• Nathan Tudor

  

  Mr. Nathan Tudor, Director

  CEO of El Campo Memorial Hospital
  El Campo, Texas
  Tech Alumnus: Political Science, B.S. '02