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Krannert announces lineup for fall semester speaker's forum

While on campus, the executives will give a presentation, dine with students, meet with faculty and staff, and tour teaching and research facilities.

The forum meets from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. each Friday in the Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building. Sessions are free and open to the public. Dates, speakers and topics are:

• Sept. 5 -- Karen C. Vinjamuri, managing director, Partisan Management Group, Miami Lakes, Fla. -- "Symbiosis: The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Experience."
  
• Sept. 12 -- Richard E. Dauch, president and chief executive officer, American Axle & Manufacturing, Detroit -- "American Axle & Manufacturing: A Renaissance of Excellence in Manufacturing."
  
• Sept. 19 -- William R. Litzler, chairman and president, C.A. Litzler Co. Inc., Cleveland -- "Board of Advisors in a Family Business Succession."
  
• Sept. 26 -- Robert A. Oakley, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Nationwide Insurance Enterprise, Columbus, Ohio -- "The Financial Services Revolution."
  
• Oct. 3 -- Joe W. Forehand Jr., managing partner, Americas Products, Andersen Consulting, Dallas -- "Competing in the Global Economy."
  
• Oct. 10 -- Peter E. Geier, president and chief operating officer, The Huntington National Bank, and vice chairman, Huntington Bancshares Inc., Columbus, Ohio -- "It's Not Banking
  
• Oct. 17 -- Anne Schowe, vice president systems software and engineering technologies, Sun Microsystems Computer Co., Palo Alto, Calif. -- "A Few Really Important Things I Didn't Learn in Kindergarten."
  
• Oct. 24 -- Roberta W. Gutman, vice president and director of global diversity, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill. -- "Diversity, a Weapon for U.S. Business."
  
• Oct. 31 -- Alberto Sanchez Palazuelos, chairman and chief executive officer, Albright & Wilson Troy Grupo Industrial, Col. Polanco, Mexico -- "AW Troy -- A Case of Converting a Government-Owned Chemical Complex Into a Private, World-Class, Global Company."
  
• Nov. 7 -- Marshall O. Larsen, executive vice president, The BFGoodrich Co., and president and chief operating officer, BFGoodrich Aerospace, Akron, Ohio -- "Turning Around a Company."
  
• Nov. 14 -- Jeremy P. Coote, president, SAP America Inc., Lester, Pa. -- "The Key to Modern Business: Enabling the Supply Chain."
  
• Nov. 21 -- Charles D. Storms, president and chief executive officer, Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co. Inc., Evansville, Ind. -- "Success From Failure: How Our Three Technologies All Began as Failures."
  
• Dec. 5 -- Marjorie Magner, president and chief operating officer, Commercial Credit Corp., New York -- "Commercial Credit: From Main Street to Wall Street."

Source: Tamyra Gibson, director of public relations, (765) 494-4392; e-mail, gibsont@mgmt.purdue.edu
Writer: Kate Walker, (765) 494-2073; e-mail, kate_walker@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Journalists are welcome to attend the lectures, but videotaping and taking photographs are allowed only during the question-and-answer sessions immediately following the lectures. Interviews with the lecturers may be prearranged by contacting Tamyra Gibson, Krannert director of public relations, at (765) 494-4392; e-mail, gibsont@mgmt.purdue.edu

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