Dean's Advisory Council

Dean's Advisory Council group photo, October 2014.

Members of the Dean's Advisory Council gather for a group photo in Grace Plaza outside Davis Hall. Photo by Nancy J. Parisi

The Dean’s Advisory Council provides support and advice to the dean in several key areas, such as:

  • Long-term planning and strategy
  • Development
  • Industrial relations
  • Educational and professional identity
  • Placement
  • Curriculum
  • Classroom enrichment
  • New programs

Members

Michael J. Cadigan, Chair
10/29/19
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Customer Engagement, Globalfoundries
Patrick Abrami
10/29/19
Partner and Consultant, Applied Management Systems
Russell L. Agrusa
9/28/17
Founder, President and CEO, ICONICS, Inc.
Paul Ameis
11/5/19
General Manager, Lockport VanDeMark
Ron Benczkowski
9/28/17
Vice President – Engineering, Moog, Inc., Space and Defense Group
David Cadigan
10/29/19
Computer Hardware Engineer, IBM
James Chou
7/27/18
Chief Technology Officer, Kabbage, Inc. 
Dennis Elsenbeck
10/29/18
Head of Energy and Sustainability, Energy Consulting Services, Buffalo, Phillips Lytle LLP
Judy Feldman
3/11/19
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, ValueCentric
Robert Girardi
10/29/19
Retired, former President and CES of SofTrek
Gina Lee-Glauser
11/5/19
Vice President for Research and Scholarship; Provost Office at Clarkson University
Karianne Gomez
5/30/19
Vice President of Strategic Value at the Network of Executive Women
Robert G. Harrison, P.E.
5/31/19
Vice President of Engineering and Construction, Transmission Developers, Inc.  
Cynthia Hoover
10/29/19
Executive Director, Praxair
Rob Jacoby
10/29/19
Consultant to the Energy Industry
Ashok Jain
10/29/19
Vice President, Systems Management and Engineering, Safran
Joe Kessler
10/29/19
Chief Operating Officer, New York Power Authority
Anil Kshirsagar
10/29/19
Executive Chair, CAPIOT Software, Inc
Jeff Markin
10/29/19
Chief Operating Officer, eHealth Technologies
Edward C. Morris
5/30/19
President, ECM Management Consultants, LLC
Susan R. Nowicki
6/29/18
Director of Engineering, Northrop Grumman Amherst Systems
Ashish Shah
10/29/19
Vice President of Research and Development, Viant, Inc.
Stephen E. Still
10/29/19
Retired, Former co-founder and consultant, Seabury Airline Planning Group LLC
Alice Smith
11/5/19
Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Auburn University
Jonathan Watts
10/1/18
Vice President at Watts Architecture & Engineering DPC
Candace Yano
11/5/19
Gary & Sherron Kalbach Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Operations and Information Technology Management, University of California, Berkeley