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Steven J. Diner, Chancellor, Rutgers University, Newark Campus Chancellor Steven J. Diner has headed Rutgers University-Newark since July 2002. He leads an institution of over 10,500 students, five hundred full-time faculty and 1100 full-time staff, with a budget of $130,000,000. Rutgers-Newark awards Ph.D, masters, baccalaureate and law degrees in colleges of arts and sciences, business, criminal justice, law, nursing and public affairs & administration. U.S. News and World Report has named it the most diverse national university in the United States for eleven consecutive years. Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Diner served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at RutgersNewark. He is also a Professor of History. Chancellor Diner has devoted himself to building Rutgers-Newark as a leading urban research university. He has overseen a substantial increase in campus enrollments. He has encouraged faculty to take full advantage of the opportunities for both teaching and research offered by Newark’s rich array of academic, cultural, business, legal, medical and scientific institutions and its proximity to New York City. He has been responsible for establishing a new School of Public Affairs & Administration, a Division of Global Affairs, and a wide variety of new academic initiatives many of which take advantage of RutgersNewark’s location in the New York/northern New Jersey metropolitan area. Under his leadership, Rutgers-Newark has built strong ties between the campus and the local community. He is deeply involved in the revitalization of downtown Newark, where the campus sits, and has overseen the doubling of the campus’s residential population. He is committed to creating a vibrant twenty-four/seven community in the neighborhood surrounding the campus. Through Chancellor Diner’s efforts, Rutgers-Newark recently acquired eleven floors of a prominent building at One Washington Park, which will serve as the new home of Rutgers Business School and simultaneously spur the further revitalization of the north end of downtown Newark. Dr. Diner has championed the campus’s historic mission of offering a first-rate education to students of modest means who are often the first in their family to attend college. He has also initiated efforts to encourage faculty to take maximum advantage of the learning opportunities offered by the campus’s extraordinarily diverse student body. Steven Diner came to Rutgers with a lifelong interest in cities, universities, and the connections between them, both past and present. After completing a PhD in History at the University of Chicago, he began his teaching career at the University of the District of Columbia, where he taught in and chaired the Department of Urban Studies and was the founding director of the Center for Applied Research and Urban Policy. In 1985, he went to George Mason University, where he served as Vice Provost for Academic Programs, Associate Senior Vice President, and established the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, which undertakes interdisciplinary research in cognitive science. Dr. Diner’s publications include A City and Its Universities (1980), Housing Washington’s People (1984), and A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998), as well as numerous articles and essays on the history of American higher education, urban history, and the history of public policy.
Lee D. Augsburger, Senior Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Prudential Financial, Inc. Lee Augsburger is senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer in the Law, Compliance and Business Ethics unit of Prudential Financial, Inc., responsible for overseeing the company’s global compliance organization of more than 375 staff worldwide and the company’s global business ethics efforts. Augsburger joined Prudential’s law department in 1997 later becoming the chief legal officer for the annuities business. In 2000 he moved to the compliance department and was appointed global chief compliance officer in 2007 and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer in 2009. He also has served as vice president, compliance, for the company’s Investment Division, where he was responsible for managing compliance programs for the retirement services, institutional brokerage, asset management businesses and mutual funds. Prior to joining Prudential, Augsburger was a director in PriceWaterhouse’s Regulatory Consulting Practice, worked with Van Kampen Merrit, served several years with Bell, Boyd & Lloyd law firm and later joined Smith Barney where he was deputy general counsel for its mutual fund organization. Augsburger has an undergraduate degree in communications from Wheaton College and a JD from ITT/Chicago Kent College of Law. He is a member of the bar of Illinois and various industry organizations, including the National Society of Compliance Professionals and the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association. Augsburger serves on the Board of Trustees of Star of Hope Ministries, an inner-city mission organization in Paterson, NJ. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers University.
John R. Strangfeld, Chairman and CEO, Prudential Financial, Inc. John R. Strangfeld is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Financial, Inc. Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), is a financial services leader with businesses in both the United States and internationally (Asia, Europe, and Latin America). Leveraging its 130 year heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping its 50 million individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products in the areas of protection (life insurance), retirement, investment management, and real estate services. Before being named Chairman and CEO, Strangfeld was Vice-Chairman responsible for Prudential’s U.S. Businesses, which include both the Investment and the Insurance Divisions. Prior to his position as Vice-Chairman, Strangfeld held a variety of senior investment positions at Prudential, both within the United States and abroad, including six years in London. Strangfeld received a BS in Business Administration from Susquehanna University and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Susquehanna University and a member of the Board of Trustees of The Darden Foundation, University of Virginia. He is also a member of the Raven Society, the oldest and most prestigious honorary society at the University of Virginia. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Keith T. Darcy, Executive Director, Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA) Keith T. Darcy is Executive Director of the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). ECOA is the largest association of ethics and compliance executives worldwide with over 1,250 members across six continents. Darcy also serves as President of the ECOA Foundation. Darcy has combined a 30-year career in the financial services industry with his profession as an educator and his long-term involvement in business ethics, corporate governance and organizational leadership. Darcy serves as Chairman of the Board of the Better Business Bureau Foundation, which supports the Better Business Bureau of New York, where he chairs the Audit Committee. He also serves on the board of advisors of Deepmile Networks, a firm that provides consulting advice to the U.S. intelligence community. Previously Darcy served on the board of directors of E*Trade Bank and its affiliates where he chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee, and served on the Audit Committee. He also served on the board of directors of New York National Bank, which merged in 2006 with Hudson Valley National Bank. Prior to its merger in 2002, Darcy served as Executive Vice President and a member of the Office of the President of IBJ Whitehall Bank & Trust Company (IBJW), NYC. In the early-1990’s Darcy helped Prudential Securities Inc. establish the first Ethics Office among Wall Street firms in conformance with standards promulgated by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. For fifteen years he was a senior executive at Marine Midland Bank, N.A. (now HSBC) where he headed both consumer banking and corporate finance groups and was a key advisor to the President of Marine Midland Bank, NY. Darcy also served as Chief Executive Officer of IGM, an insurance company jointly owned by General Reinsurance Corporation and Frank B. Hall & Company, and served as CEO of a related derivatives trading company. Since 1994 Darcy has been teaching Ethics and Leadership in the Executive Programs at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Teaching Fellow at the R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and Executive-in-Residence at Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, where he serves as Executive Director of the Center for Business Ethics. Darcy also is an Executive Fellow of the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, D.C., an Executive Fellow of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College in Waltham, MA and a member of the Scientific Board of the Chair of Excellency, University of Cergy, Cergy du Pontois, France. He is also a member of the Global Council on Corruption of the World Economic Forum, headquartered in Davos, Switzerland. He previously served as Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of Business at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. In 2005, Darcy was appointed to the blue ribbon Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth sponsored by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The findings were presented to congress and have resulted in a wide range of private and public sector initiatives to address the crisis of childhood obesity. Darcy holds a B.S. degree from Fordham University's College of Business, an M.B.A from the Hagan Graduate School of Business at Iona College, and has done additional post-graduate study at New York Theological Seminary. In addition, he received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Manhattanville College. Mr. Darcy has contributed his expertise to numerous books including Food Marketing for Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies), The Change Management Handbook (Irwin Press), A Companion to Business Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford) and Restoring Trust: HR’s Role in Corporate Governance (HR Society Publishing). He is featured in Survival Skills for the Financial Services Industry (John Wiley & Sons), Winning the People Wars (Financial Times-Prentice Hall), The Ethical Edge (Mastermedia Publishers), The Portable Executive (Simon and Schuster), Merchants of Vision (Berret Koehler Publishers), and Career Crossroads (Workworld Press) and is widely published, quoted and referenced in newspapers and magazines. Over the years, he has been a keynote speaker and panelist in hundreds of venues. His biography is included in Who's Who in the World, Who’s Who in Finance and Who's Who in American Education among others.
Cam Marston, President & Founder, Generational Insight Cam Marston, founder and president of Generational Insight, is a consultant, author, and speaker who has worked with Fortune 500 companies and small businesses throughout the world to improve multigenerational relations and communications. He has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, New Zealand Herald, Entrepreneur Magazine, Charlotte Observer, HR Management Today, Money Magazine, Fortune Small Business (FSB), on the BBC, and in and numerous trade journals and city business journals across the United States. Cam's programs and concepts are the result of nearly a decade of extensive research and study inside businesses of all sizes and sectors. In the course of his work, he has interviewed hundreds of representatives of the various generations. Their answers are interesting - sometimes surprising - and always valuable. Cam began his generational-focused consultancy after several years selling for Nestle Brands Foodservice Company. While at Nestle he discovered that he developed closer relationships with his customers when he talked to them about subjects that appealed to their value systems. He soon learned that his customers had many different values but the values were roughly the same in each generation. In 1996 he founded Marston Communications, now Generational Insight. Originally his clients engaged him to conduct surveys, focus groups, and research on both their customer and employee bases. Cam's results revealed significant generational differences that his clients had never recognized and which supported his findings while at Nestle. The focus of Marston Communications began to evolve just as awareness of generational differences was gaining national media attention. Today, Cam uses personal research conducted within client organizations and the explosion of available data on generational dynamics to explore the unique affects of generational difference in the workplace and in sales-based relationships. He presents his finding to organizations around the globe, ranging from small, local associations to national convention audiences of more than 3,000 to a handful of Fortune 500 senior executives in a corporate boardroom. In addition to his presentations, workshops and targeted coaching, Cam has written a book on his findings. Motivating the "What's In It For Me" Workforce: Managing Across the Generational Divide, was first published in October, 2005 and re-released by JW Wiley Publishers in 2007. Cam was born in Mobile, Alabama and graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans. He is the father of a seven year old, a four year old, and two year old twins. After fifteen years in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cam and his wife have recently returned to his hometown of Mobile to raise their young family.
Michele D. Ansbacher, VP and Corporate Chief Ethics Officer, Global Business Ethics & Integrity, Prudential Financial Michele Ansbacher is Vice President and Corporate Chief Ethics Officer at Prudential Financial, responsible for the Company’s Global Business Ethics and Integrity program. Prior to this role, Ansbacher was Vice President of Field Support for Prudential’s Agency Distribution sales organization, made up of approximately 2,300 producers and financial planners across the U.S. Ansbacher also served as Agency Distribution’s Business Ethics Officer. Ansbacher began her Prudential career as a management intern and assumed increasing responsibility leading to senior marketing management positions. Ansbacher served as Vice President and Chief Quality Officer at Prudential Investments, responsible for utilizing total quality principles and administering service contracts for Defined Benefit and Defined Contributions customers. Following her promotion to Departmental Vice President, Operations and Systems, in the Marketing and Customer Management area, Ansbacher moved into Agency Services, where she managed the successful merger of the two retail sales channels. Ansbacher subsequently served as vice president, Planning and Analysis, for Prudential’s U.S. Consumer Group. Ansbacher earned her MBA degree in finance from New York University. She is an Ethic Resource Center fellow and a member of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association and The Conference Board’s Global Council on Business Conduct. Ansbacher also serves on the Board of the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, heading the Strategic Planning Committee.
Judith M. Young, Program Director, Institute for Ethical Leadership, Rutgers Business School Judy is the Program Director with the Institute for Ethical Leadership (IEL) at Rutgers Business School. She is responsible for creating, implementing, evaluating programs that are administered at the IEL and the Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership (CNPL). She will also oversee the Center’s developing consulting arm. Judy has over twenty-four years experience focused in Leadership Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Change Management, Learning & Development, Consulting and Human Resources. Judy has extensive experience in the Pharmaceutical business sector at Johnson & Johnson, Management Consulting firms and within the nonprofit sector for Hospital systems. As a business management and organization development consultant, Judy has lead domestic and international projects that focused on the following: Leadership Development Strategic Planning Change Management Performance Improvement Organizational assessment, alignment, structure and design
Reengineering/Redesign of business processes Operational planning and implementation Team Development Total Quality Management/Process Excellence Organizational Effectiveness
Judy served as an Adjunct Professor on the graduate level and as a program creator for Seton Hall’s Virtual Program in Corporate Communication. Judy also served as an Adjunct Professor at Brookdale Community College in the undergraduate Communications program. Judy holds a Masters degree in Corporate Communication, concentration in MBA courses, from Seton Hall University. A Bachelor of Arts, Communication and English Montclair State University. Judy earned a certificate from Rutgers University in the Mini MBA Business Essential Program and completed the Executive Organizational Effectiveness Program at Columbia University.
Sharon C. Taylor, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Prudential Financial, Inc. Sharon C. Taylor is senior vice president, Human Resources, chair of The Prudential Foundation and a member of Prudential’s Senior Management Committee. Taylor is the top global human resources (HR) officer reporting to the chairman and is accountable for HR consulting, HR policies, strategies, programs and infrastructure that support Prudential’s domestic and international businesses. She chairs several key committees, such as the Human Resources Policy Committee and the Investment Oversight Committee. She is also accountable for Community Resources, which includes oversight of The Prudential Foundation, and the company’s social investments, local initiative and business diversity programs. Prior to Taylor’s current appointment, she served as corporate vice president, Human Resources accountable for leading Human Resources 13 centers of excellence. Taylor’s tenure in this role was marked by improved operating efficiency, customer services and significantly reduced expenses. She has also served as corporate vice president, Human Resources and ethics officer for Prudential’s domestic insurance group and vice president, Human Resources for Prudential Financial’s Operations and Systems group. Taylor has held leadership roles in Prudential Financial’s Minority Interchange and is a founding member of the company’s Black Leadership Forum. She serves as Chair of the Human Resources Outsourcing Association and the Newark Regional Business Partnership, and also sits on the Boards of the American Repertory Ballet, the Human Resources Policy Association and the Advisory Board of the National Council of LaRaza. Taylor has received numerous awards for her high level of both business success and community service. Taylor is a magna cum laude graduate from Temple University, where she earned a BA degree in foreign languages.
Alex J. Plinio, Co-Founder, Institute for Ethical Leadership – Rutgers Business School Mr. Plinio is the co-founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School (RBS) and the Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership. Former President/CEO of AFS-USA, the largest nonprofit international and intercultural student exchange program in the United States, Alex Plinio previously held senior executive positions at Prudential Financial in the areas of insurance, investments, financial services and public affairs. His business experience includes executive positions in marketing, operations and administration, change management and start-ups. He was head of Prudential Annuity Services, a billion dollar retirement products business. He also led the start up and served as President of the Prudential Foundation. Mr. Plinio has founded and served on the boards of many organizations devoted to community and economic development, youth, education and the arts, including the Governor's Schools of New Jersey, Gifts in Kind Inc. and the Independent Sector. He also served on the Board of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, the Alliance for International and Intercultural Education, Association for International Practical Training and the Corporate Advisory Groups of the Council on Foundations, the Conference Board, the United Negro College Fund, and the national United Way. He currently serves on the faculty of RBS, the Advisory Editorial Board for the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance and is the Managing Director and President of a consulting practice, Alex J. Plinio & Associates LLC. His publications include Resource Raising: The Role of Non Cash Contributions in Corporate Philanthropy; he was a regular columnist for Fundraising Management Magazine and he is a recipient of the Private Sector Initiatives Award from the President of the United States and the Rutgers Outstanding Alumnus Award.
Michael Alles, Associate Professor, Accounting, Business Ethics & Information Systems, Rutgers Business School & Editor, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance Dr. Michael Alles is a tenured associate professor at the Department of Accounting, Business Ethics & Information Systems at Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University and editor of the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, published by Palgrave-Macmillan in London. Prior to Rutgers, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin, New York University and Southern Methodist University. His specialties are the design of strategic control systems, continuous auditing, XBRL and management accounting. He is widely published in all these areas. Dr. Alles holds a doctorate from Stanford Business School and a First Class Honors in Economics from the Australian National University.
