Infilaw Executive Team Bios
Rick Inatome, Chief Executive Officer
Inatome is a managing director at Sterling Partners, a $4 billion private equity fund. He is a well-known computer industry pioneer who co-founded two multi-billion dollar companies, including Computer City and Inacomp Computer Centers. He was responsible for taking American Speedy Printing, the 4th largest printing chain, out of bankruptcy to become one of the most profitable chains in the U.S. He currently serves on the Boards of AAA Michigan, ACG, R.L. Polk & Co., Saturn Electronics and 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 the 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 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 and was the keynote speaker at 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.
Back to About Us
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.
Back to About Us
Lisa Gruenloh, Director of Communications
Lisa Gruenloh is a certified professional coach, communications consultant and process facilitator. She 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.
Back to About Us
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.
Back to About Us
Donald E. Lively, Vice President, Academic Affairs
Don Lively was founding dean and chancellor at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida and founding dean at Phoenix School of Law in Phoenix, Arizona. 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. Lively clerked for Jim R. Carrigan, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado and practiced law in Denver with a private law firm, with a newspaper as in-house counsel and with the Office of the General Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.
Lively earned his A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.S.J. from Northwestern University, his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has authored or coauthor numerous law review articles, casebooks and law books.
Back to About Us
Bruce Pentreath, Chief Information Officer
Bruce Pentreath has over 33 years international experience enabling business innovation and improvement through implementation of Information Technology solutions. A former executive with the Capgemini Americas Outsourcing organization, he has spent the past 17 years of his IT career in executive management or management consulting positions delivering global, multi-million dollar IT enabled programs to companies such as General Motors, British Petroleum, Scottish Power, Owens Corning, Merck, RL Polk, JP Morgan/Chase, Bruno’s and Hitachi.
Pentreath joined InfiLaw in 2007 and is responsible for Information Technology across the Consortium. Originating from Southern Africa, he has been a resident of the United States since 1995.
Back to About Us
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 chief financial officer, controllership and planning & analysis. Prior to Cendant, he held global financial positions with Ingersoll Rand, Applied Power, Inc., and Aqua-Chem, Inc.
Thompson’s career began in public accounting with KPMG and he has worked and 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 and a member of the 1984 NCAA Division III national championship team.
Back to About Us
Chris Schmitz, Vice President, Finance
Chris Schmitz began his career at Price Waterhouse in Detroit where he worked in the public accounting sector for five years before joining Borg-Warner Automotive as a regional senior financial analyst and controller. Schmitz has subsequently held positions of increasing responsibility as manager of internal audit and vice president of finance for Pulte Homes and regional controller and corporate vice president of strategic sourcing for Lennar Homes. He also is a licensed CPA, having earned the certification while working for Price Waterhouse.
Schmitz received his undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Michigan Business School and earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University.
Back to About Us
Denise Barlow, Vice President, Academic Programs
Denise Barlow served as a member of the University of Tennessee administration for over 30 years. Her final position was Vice Chancellor for Finance & Administration for the Knoxville campus where her responsibilities included fiduciary accountability of the $750 million operating budget, management of the 218 buildings and the 530 acre campus, oversight of campus safety & security, and oversight of auxiliary operations.
Barlow earned a Bachelor of Science accounting degree and an MBA from The University of Tennessee. Barlow has held the CPA designation since 1987.
Back to About Us
Infilaw System Dean Bios
Dennis Stone, Interim Dean, Charlotte School of Law
Dennis Stone was a founding executive officer of InfiLaw Consortium, serving as vice president for operations and new school development. He also served as a founding executive of Florida Coastal School of Law.
Stone has been involved in legal education for over 30 years, serving as a law school evaluator for the American Bar Association. He was a tenured professor of law and law librarian at the University of Connecticut and served in a similar capacity at Gonzaga University School of Law. He has taught in a number of areas of law and has helped found several law journals including the Canadian-American Law Journal and the University of Connecticut Journal of International Law. Stone has served in a number of capacities with the California and Florida Bar Associations and the American Association of Law Schools, the American Bar Association, the American Association of Law Libraries and is a former member of Westlaw Advisory Council.
Back to About Us
C. Peter Goplerud III, Dean, Florida Coastal School of Law
Peter Goplerud has been dean at Florida Coastal since 2004 and is a former dean of Drake University Law School, University of Oklahoma College of Law and Southern Illinois University School of Law. He earned both his bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas and has co-authored books on sports law and water law and has written numerous law review articles.
Goplerud has extensive service with the American Bar Association, Association of American Law Schools, and the Law School Admissions Council. He serves on the board of directors of the Sports Lawyers Association and is a member of the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission.
Back to About Us
Eugene Clark, Interim Dean, Phoenix School of Law
Eugene Clark most recently served as dean of Charlotte School of Law in Charlotte, NC, where he helped build the school’s mission, vision and values. He practiced law for three years in the U.S. prior to embarking on an international career that has taken him to Australia, China, Singapore, Thailand, and the South Pacific. Clark was professor of law and executive dean of the Faculty of Law, Business and Arts at Charles Darwin University in Australia. He also served as pro vice-chancellor and head of the law school. He served as visiting professor at the University of New Mexico Law School and has published over 100 journal and professional articles. Clark earned five degrees; his doctorate of philosophy in law and two master’s degrees in education in Australia and two degrees including his juris doctorate with honors in the United States.
Back to About Us |
