Dean’s Advisory Board Members

James R. Anderson*
(Electrical Engineering '95)
CEO
Coherent Corp.

Krzysztof Burhardt*
(Electrical Engineering Ph.D. ’71)
Retired Partner
Clotho & Associates

Ronald L. Christenson, Chair Emeritus* 
(Mechanical Engineering ’72)
Retired Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Cargill Inc.

Michael Connly*
(Mechanical Engineering ’83)
Retired Chief Information Officer
Optum/United Health Group

Edward Cunnington*
(Business Administration ’70, MBA ’71)
Retired President
Tescom Corp.

John Dexheimer*
(Mathematics ’76)
President
Lightwave Advisors

Sundararajan Dhamotharan*
(Civil Engineering Ph.D. ’79)
Retired Group Chief Executive, Enterprise Client Account Management Program
AECOM

Jeffrey A. Gorski*
(Geological Engineering ’83)
Former Chief Operating Officer, Tidewater Marine

Bonnie Holub*
(Computer Science M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’92)
Board Chair, Ever-Green Energy

Robert W. Hubbard*
(Psychology ’88)
President
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.

Ashish K. Khandpur*
(Chemical Engineering Ph.D. ’95)
President and CEO
Avient Corporation

Jane E. Lansing, Chair*
(Civil Engineering ’76)
Retired, Vice President of Marketing
Emerson 

Carol C. Malnati*
(Electrical Engineering '88)
Retired, Vice President of Research and Development, Cardiac Rhythm and Heart Failure Division
Medtronic

Ken Pucel*
(Mechanical Engineering ’89)
Retired, Executive Vice President, Global Operations, Engineering and Lean
Polaris Industries Inc.

Florian Schattenmann
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President Research and Development and Innovation
Cargill Inc.

Randall Schiestl*
(Mechanical Engineering '77; M.B.A. '84)
Chief Operating Officer
Vocxi Health

Navjot Singh*
(Ph.D. Chemical Engineering '94)
Senior Partner Emeritus
McKinsey & Company

Jeff Wilke
Chairman and Co-founder
Re:Build Manufacturing

Todd Zarfos*
(Electrical Engineering ’85)
Retired Vice President of Engineering
The Boeing Company

* University of Minnesota alumni