Each year the UC Davis Graduate School of Management invites a prominent executive to teach a quarter-long MBA course that reflects their management expertise. The Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence Program gives students and faculty a unique opportunity to work closely with a top business leader. In addition to class lectures, the Executive-in-Residence invites other high-level executives to guest lecture in his or her class, meets with students informally and makes a presentation to the School’s Business Partners.
Robert Fox, who led Foster Farms, Revlon International and Del Monte and other major public and private corporations over four decades, endowed the program with a $350,000 gift in April 2007. Fox, who is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council, himself served as Executive-in-Residence at the School in 2001. Fox's generous gift will help the Graduate School of Management continue to bring the know-how of other leading executives—like this year's Joe Dobrow—to the classroom.
Our Spring 2010 Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence is Jack Gill (right), a founder and managing partner (retired) of Vanguard Ventures in Palo Alto. Gill has more than four decades of experience working in Silicon Valley and Boston as a company founder and venture capitalist. He also has 10 years of experience teaching entrepreneurship courses in science, engineering and medicine at Harvard Medical School, MIT and Rice University.
Edward M. Carson (1996)
Retired Chairman and CEO
First Interstate Bancorp |
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Sotiris Kolokotronis (2006)
Founder and Owner
SKK Developments |
David E. Collins (1995)
Former Vice Chairman
Johnson & Johnson
Retired President
Schering-Plough HealthCare Products |
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Robert McClements, Jr. (1994)
Retired Chairman
Sun Company |
John W. Collins (1998)
Retired President and Chief Operating Officer
The Clorox Company |
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Lee McIntire (2005)
Retired Executive, Partner and
Member of the Board of Directors
Bechtel Group, Inc. |
Robert Fox (2001)
Former President & CEO
Foster Farms |
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(2007)
Chief Investment Officer
CalPERS
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Lon S. Hatamiya (2004)
Former Secretary
California Technology Trade &
Commerce Agency |
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Linda Oubre (2003)
Co-founder, Former Director,
Former President-COO
BriteSmile Inc. |
W. Keith Kennedy (2000)
Retired President and CEO
Watkins-Johnson Co. |
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Charles Steinberg (2002)
Retired President and CEO
Broadcast and Professional Co.,
Sony Electronics Inc.
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James L. Ketelsen (1993)
Retired Chairman and CEO
Tenneco, Inc. |
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John R. Thomas (1999)
Retired President and CEO
J.P. Morgan Trust Bank, Ltd. (Japan)
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L. Wilton Agatstein, Jr. (2008)
Retired Vice President and General Manager
Intel
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John W. Weiser (1997)
Senior Vice President and Director
Bechtel Group, Inc. |
Joe Dobrow (2009)
Vice President & Chief Marketer
Sprouts Farmers Market
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