Board of Directors

Mr. Alfonzo Alexander, Director

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

Dr. Kevin H. Braswell, Executive Director and Secretary

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

Mr. Nathan Burton, Director

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

Mr. David Cooley, Director and Former Chair

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

Dr. Mary Graves, Director

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

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

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

Mr. Ashraf Islam, Director

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

Mr. Tom Jones, Director and Former Chair

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

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

Mr. Allen McCampbell, Director

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

Dr. M. Dianne Murphy, Vice-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

Ms. Amy New, Director

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

Dr. Philip Oldham, Co-Chair

President of Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tennessee

Mr. Ottis Phillips, Chair

Former President of Mid South Distributing, Inc.
Cookeville, Tennessee
Tech Alumnus: Mechanical Engineering, B.S. '74, M.B.A. '78

Mr. Chris Privon, Director

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

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

Dr. Claire Stinson, Treasurer

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

Dr. Harry Stonecipher, Director and Former Chair

Former President & CEO of the Boeing Company
Asheville, North Carolina
Tech Alumnus: Physics, B.S. '60

Mr. Nathan Tudor, Director

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