Our Leadership

President Scott Stallman

ABOUT PRESIDENT SCOTT STALLMAN, PH.D.:

In 2024, Dunwoody College of Technology named Scott Stallman, Ph.D. as its eleventh president. Stallman originally joined Dunwoody in 2021 as provost.

Stallman has an established track record of collaborating with faculty to strengthen relationships with employers, develop new business and industry partnerships, build academic programs, and increase student enrollment and success.

Stallman earned his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Missouri – Columbia, his Master’s degree in Adult and Higher Education Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and his Doctorate in Higher Education Administration at Illinois State University.

He is an Aspen Presidential Fellow in the 2019-2020 cohort, a program that seeks to prepare the next generation of higher education leaders. Stallman was one of 40 educators from across the country chosen to participate in the program that year.

Board of Trustees Officers

Julie A. Owen
Chair
Chief Operating Officer
Innovative Office Solutions

Andrew R. Hecker
Vice Chair
Chief Executive Officer
Concept Advanced Manufacturing Solutions

Theodore J. Christianson
Treasurer
Managing Director, Merchant Banking
Piper Sandler & Co.

Dale A. Nordquist
Secretary
1974 Industrial Electronics
Board Chair
Granite Partners

Scott Stallman, Ph.D.
President
Dunwoody College of Technology

Board of Trustees Members

Jerry Anderson
Retired Senior Vice President,
U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management

Barbara Balinski
Senior Vice President, Technology & Innovation
Tennant Company

Robert Bodor
Business Consultant

Derek L. Clarkin
2005 Architectural Drafting & Estimating
President
Prime General Contractors, LLC

Hutchins B. Coburn
President, Secondary and Pharma Packaging Groups
ProMach

James D. Engelsma
Vice President
Kraus-Anderson Financial Services Group

Claire M. Ferrara
2011 Heating Cooling Systems Design
President & Majority Owner
Standard Heating & Air Conditioning

Katherine Holman
Vice President, Supply Chain, Meals & Baking
General Mills

Karen A. Isaacson
Vice President, North American Distribution – Operations
Emerson Automation Solutions

Keith A. Kapala
1989 Architectural Design & Estimating Technology
Senior Vice President
M. A. Mortenson Company

Velma J. Korbel
Vice President and Chief DEI Officer
APi Group

Debbie L. Lang
Vice President of Supply Chain, Food Enterprise
Cargill

Susan C. Larson, P.E.
Engineering Director

David M. Lyman
Principal
Lyman Executive Search

Bonnie Speer McGrath
Chair
TIGER 21 Minneapolis

Michelle M. Neal
Plant Manager, Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant
Xcel Energy

Gary T. O’Brien
Managing Director
Hennepin Partners

Jon L. Reissner
President
Activar, Inc.

Jeffrey S. Schipper
2000 Machine Tool Technology
2001 Engineering, Drafting, & Design
President
Newman

David A. Schneider
Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
Red Wing Shoes

Hillery S. Shay
Vice President Marketing and Communications
Children’s Minnesota

Steven A. Sonnenberg
Former Chairman
Emerson Automation Solutions

Maureen A. Tholen
Vice President, Sustainability, Safety, & Industrial Group Business
3M

Marnie K. Wells
President
The Toro Company Foundation

Presidents Emeritus

Frank Starke
C. Ben Wright, Ph.D.
Rich Wagner, Ph.D.

Honorary Trustees

Clifford I. Anderson
Robert W. Carlson, Jr.
David P. Crosby
Joel A. Elftmann
Bruce W. Engelsma
Theodore A. Ferrara
James R. Fox
Charles E. Kiester
Cornell L. Moore
Raymond K. Newkirk
Gary N. Petersen
Donald E. Ryks
Maurice J. Wagener