J. Timothy McGinley was appointed to the board in 1989, serving as chairman since 1993. He was born April 27, 1940, in Indianapolis. A 1963 chemical engineering graduate, he is a principal of House Investments, Inc., a real estate investment company he started in 1978 in Indianapolis.

After receiving his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, McGinley became a White House Fellow, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and later was special assistant to the U.S. secretary of labor. He served as deputy assistant secretary of labor from 1968 to 1969. From 1969 to 1973, he was executive vice president for finance of National Homes, a New York Stock Exchange company. He was president and cofounder of Jonathan Group, a residential development and construction firm begun in 1973.

At Purdue he was a three-year member of the varsity basketball team where he gained Big Ten honors for both athletic skill and scholarship and was the basketball player with the highest scholarship average. Purdue named McGinley a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus in 1972 and the Outstanding Chemical Engineering Alumnus in 1994. He received the John Purdue Club Career Service Award in 1995. McGinley was a 1983 Purdue Old Master, past president of the Purdue Engineering Alumni Association, and is currently a member of the President's Council.

His honors include 1967 Jaycees' Outstanding Young Man of America and the 1995 Big Ten Centennial Athletic Award. In 1999, he was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000. He has been named a Sagamore of the Wabash by three Indiana governors. He was selected as Irishman of the Year for Indianapolis in 2006 and elected to the Indiana Academy that same year. He currently serves on the board of directors for Waterfield Mortgage, Vectren Corporation.