Infilaw Executive Team Bios
Doug Chait, Vice President, Corporate Development
Doug Chait is a former vice president of corporate development of American InterContinental University, a for-profit, international system of universities specializing in technology education. During Chait’s tenure, American InterContinental University Company opened four new campuses in three-year period and was sold to Career Education Corporation. Chait also served as CFO of AgentWare, travel software company located in Atlanta. Chait earned his MBA from Emory University and his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Chicago.
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Helene Dublisky
Helen Dublisky is founder and principal Omega Coaching, management consultant specializing in IT outsourcing and M&A, and former Information Technology executive at PECO Energy Company (now Exelon Energy) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Helene spent most of her career in IT executive and management positions in large corporate environments and in the early-1990s became involved in executive coaching and leadership development of high potential individuals in organizations. Helene is adjunct faculty in the University of San Francisco's Master of Science; Information Systems program where she teaches classes in Organizational Politics & Power, Project Management, and Human Resource management. Helene received a Master of Science in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor of Science in Horticulture from The Pennsylvania State University. She is co-author of two books, Hire Power: A Foundation for Organizational Excellence and IT People: Doing More With Less.
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Lisa Gruenloh, Director of Communications
Lisa Gruenloh has held executive positions at some of the nation’s leading public relations agencies in Phoenix, Miami and St. Louis, including Golin/Harris International. She served as communications director and spokesperson to a U.S. Senator, Members of Congress and a Board Member at the National Credit Union Administration, where she was a Clinton Administration appointee. Lisa has worked as a reporter and producer at several media outlets, including the National Public Radio affiliate in Kansas City. Lisa earned her master’s degree in Public Communication from American University in Washington, D.C. and her undergraduate degree in Government and Broadcasting from Northwest Missouri State University.
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Andy Heck, Vice President, Human Resources
Andy Heck is a former vice president of human resources at Tulane University and before that assistant vice president of human resources at Indiana University. Andy spent 13 years with the Walt Disney Company in Burbank California in a variety of human resource roles providing services for a group of companies including film entertainment, corporate administration, consumer products and Disney Imagineering. Andy received a Master of Science in Educational Counseling Psychology from California State University Long Beach and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Psychology from The Ohio State University.
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Rick Inatome, Chief Executive Officer
Inatome is a managing director at Sterling Partners, a $300 million private equity fund. He is a well-known computer industry pioneer who co-founded $2 billion technology companies, including Computer City and Inacomp Computer Centers. He also took American Speedy Printing, the 4th largest printing chain, out of bankruptcy and into one of the most profitable chains in the U.S. He currently serves as chairman of AAA Michigan and Vice Chairman of ACG and on the Boards of R. L. Polk & Co and Saturn Electronics, Inatome was also the past Chairman of Michigan Virtual University, the State of Michigan's 13th state chartered public university. He also served on the Advisory Boards of University of Michigan Dearborn and MSU Broad School of Business.
Inatome has played a key role in helping to guide the state of Michigan's business and education technology infrastructure. Governor John Engler appointed him the initial chairman of the Michigan Information Network and Chairman of Michigan Technology Council. Also, Governor Jim Blanchard appointed him to serve on the Michigan Minority Business Commission and the State Lottery Advisory Board. Inatome was involved in the launch of the Microsoft's advisory council where he served as president. He remains a highly sought-after international speaker on information technology strategy and has keynoted Comdex Events in the US, Japan, India, Brazil, and China. He also keynoted the International Computer Forum in Moscow. In 2000 Inatome was inducted into the Computer Industry Hall of Fame and he was named as one of the 25 most influential people to shape the computer industry in the 1980s by CRN. He was also honored as a Michigan State University Distinguished Alumni, the financial leadership award from Broad School of Business, a Detroit News Michiganian of the Year and entrepreneur of the year by the Harvard Business Club. Inatome holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Michigan State University.
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Donald E. Lively, Vice President, Program Development
Dean Lively was founding dean and chancellor at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida. He was the William H. Maier, Jr. Chair of Law at West Virginia University College of Law and a professor at University of Toledo College of Law. Prior to teaching, Dean Lively practiced with a private law firm with Denver, as in-house counsel for a newspaper, and with the Office of the General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. He also clerked for Jim R. Carrigan, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. He is the author or coauthor of numerous law review articles, casebooks and law books. Dean Lively earned his A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.S.J. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Katie McFadden, Controller
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Bruce Pentreath, Chief Information Officer
Bruce Pentreath has over 30 years international experience in enabling business innovation and improvement through pragmatic implementation of Information Technology solutions. A former executive with the Capgemini Americas Outsourcing organization, Bruce has spent the last 15 years of his IT career in executive management or management consulting positions at large and medium sized corporate environments, most recently focused on driving business transformation and IT cost-effectiveness through outsourcing, off-shoring, process and/or data/information improvements, leading high performing teams delivering complex, global, multi-million dollar IT enabled programs to General Motors, British Petroleum, Scottish Power, Owens Corning, Merck, RL Polk, JP Morgan/Chase, Bruno’s and Hitachi. Originating from Southern Africa, Bruce has been resident in the United States since 1995.
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Dennis Stone, Vice President, New School Development
Dennis Stone was a founding executive officer of Florida Coastal School of Law and assisted in developing the library, the law school facilities and its technology, financial systems and the academic program. Stone has been involved in legal education for over 25 years serving as a law school evaluator for the American Bar Association. Prior to coming to Florida Coastal, he was Professor of Law and Law Librarian at the University of Connecticut where he was responsible for the development of a new 125,000 square foot library and technology center. Stone served in a similar capacity at Gonzaga University School of Law. He has taught in a number of areas including computer law, international law, torts, maritime law and law and information policy in the United States, Great Britain, and Africa. He has also helped found several law journals including the Canadian-American Law Journal and the University of Connecticut Journal of International Law. Stone is a former member of West Publishing Company advisory council.
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Scott E. Thompson, Chief Financial Officer
Scott Thompson is the former Chief Financial Officer and Group Vice President for the Consumer-International sector of Travelport, Inc. (formerly part of Cendant Corporation). During Thompson’s Travelport tenure, he held various positions including multiple as Chief Financial Officer, Controllership and Planning & Analysis. Prior to Cendant, Thompson held various global financial positions with Ingersoll Rand, Applied Power, Inc., and Aqua-Chem, Inc. His career began in public accounting with KPMG. Thompson has also worked/lived internationally in London, England. He received a Global Executive MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and an undergraduate degree in Accounting from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He was a 4-year varsity basketball player, including a member of the 1984 NCAA Division III national championship team.
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Infilaw System Dean Bios
Eugene (Gene) Clark, Dean, Charlotte School of Law
Dean Clark came to Charlotte from Charles Darwin University in Australia where he was Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Business and Arts. Prior to that, Clark served two terms as Head of the Law School at University of Canberra as well as five years as Pro Vice-Chancellor. While at Canberra, Clark founded and led a National Court of the Future Project and was the Australian Council of Law Dean's Representative on the National Judicial College. Clark is one of Australia's most published law academics having authored, co-authored or edited 20 books and hundreds of journal articles. He is also on the boards of several other journals including the Thunderbird International Business Review, Australian Business Law Review, and Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government. Clark practiced law for three years in the U.S. prior to embarking on an international career that has taken him to Australia, China, Thailand, and the South Pacific. He has also been a visiting Professor at University of New Mexico Law School. Dean Clark holds five degrees including his J.D. (Honors) from the U.S and Ph.D. in Law from Australia. He also holds two Masters degrees in education, one in curriculum and the other in educational administration.
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C. Peter Goplerud III, Dean, Florida Coastal School of Law
Dean Goplerud is a former dean of Drake University Law School, University of Oklahoma College of Law and Southern Illinois University School of Law. He has extensive service with the American Bar Association, Association of American Law Schools, and Law School Admissions Council. Dean Goplerud has co-authored books on sports law and water and water rights and authored numerous law review articles. He serves on board of directors of Sports Lawyers Association. He earned both his J.D. and bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas.
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Dennis Shields, Dean, Phoenix School of Law
Dean Shields has been the associate dean for admissions and financial aid for Duke University School of Law since 2002 and was the assistant dean for admissions and financial aid from 1998 through 2002. Before Duke, Dean Shields held positions at the University of Michigan Law School as assistant dean and director of admissions and numerous leadership positions at the University of Iowa, including special assistant to the associate vice president of academic affairs, assistant dean and director of admissions and financial aid of the College of Law, and the director of admissions for the College of Law. Dean Shields received his J.D. from The University of Iowa College of Law in 1982 and a B.A. in Business Administration from Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa. He is an active member of the Law School Admissions Council and served on the Board of Trustees from 1992-1997 and as chair of the Minority Affairs Committee Work Group-Defining and Expanding the Minority Applicant Pool in 1989. He also served as the chair of the Council on Legal Educational Opportunity from 1991 through 1999 and has been an active member since 1988. He has held several key leadership positions, including president of the Midwest Alliance for Law School Admissions and president of the Iowa Chapter of National Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker on admissions and diversity at panels and conferences across the country.
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