Franklin L.(Frank) Best, Jr., is the managing corporate counsel and secretary at The Penn Mutual Insurance Company in Philadelphia. He manages the law department and the delivery of legal services by outside counsel. Mr. Best provides general legal assistance to all areas of the company including governmental affairs, corporate governance and board issues for Penn Mutual and its subsidiaries. He is the past president of the International Claims Association and an author of leading treatises on life insurance issues.

Dennis C. Chen, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of management and international business at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky as well as a MBA degree from Baylor University and a BE degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University. He has seventeen years of operations, engineering, and R&D management experience within multinational public corporations, specifically in the consumer products disposable diaper business. Dr. Chen lived and worked in China on a two year international assignment as the startup plant manager for a facility outside Shanghai, China. He has since visited China on multiple occasions, leading groups of undergraduate and MBA students on study abroad trips. Dr. Chen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in operations and supply chain management and international business. In his operations management course, he emphasizes project management skills and lean and six sigma methods. He also discusses total quality management and using the Baldridge framework/ TNCPE process to help organizations with their continuous improvement efforts. He has also taught several executive education courses for Belmont's Center for Executive Education.

Thomas E.(Ted) Dunlap is the general counsel and director of client relations at RTI Forensics in Annapolis, Maryland. Previously, Mr. Dunlap was in private practice at Budow and Noble, and Niles, Barton & Wilmer, where he concentrated his practice on civil litigation and coverage matters, assisting a wide variety of clients with maritime, aviation, product liability, general liability, commercial, and construction issues.

Amy Mass currently serves as Vice President & Counsel for The Hanover Insurance Group in the Office of General Counsel in Howell, Michigan. She is responsible for property and casualty legal support, government affairs, and regulatory matters for the Midwest region.

Barry Padgett, Ph.D. joined the faculty of the College of Business Administration at Belmont University in the Fall of 2010. Dr. Padgett received his B.A. from the University of Mobile, M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Louisville, and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He came to Belmont after 10 years of teaching at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, where he has directed the Ethics and Social Justice Program since 2002. Dr. Padgett has taught courses in Business Ethics, Bioethics, Philosophy of Law, Principles of the American Constitution, among others. Believing that education, particularly applied ethics, works best when it challenges individuals to search introspectively for resolutions to difficult contemporary issues, he has received multiple awards for his teaching. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals including the Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Academy of Marketing Studies Journal, he has authored two books. In the most recent, published in 2009 and entitled Professional Morality and 'Guilty Bystanding:' Merton's Conjectures and the Value of Work, Padgett asserts that work has a central role in our lives and is a major component of self-actualization and well-being. Using the works of Thomas Merton as a guide, Padgett contends that a renewal of our professional lives and the institutional contexts in which we operate is needed to humanize the alienating aspects of work and professions.

Lavona G. Russell, Ret. retired from Caterpillar in 2014, where she most recently served as the Business Excellence Manager for the Financial Products Division, with responsibility for 6 Sigma, Continuous Improvement, Governance, and Strategic Planning. Prior to Business Excellence, Lavona held the position of Operations and Quality Executive for Cat Insurance, which she joined initially in an interim management position, through NMG Advisers Inc., a consulting company she helped to establish. Lavona also served in several leadership positions with Ingram Book Group, a large national book wholesaler. Her most recent positions with Ingram were President of Ingram Book Company, Sr. V.P of Distribution, and Chief Administrative Officer. Lavona holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and a MEd from the University of Maryland. Lavona and her husband, Clyde, have three children.

Jonathan A.(Jon) White, PHR, a culture architect, full potential enabler and employee development leader of Stansell Electric Company, is a servant, passionate about orphans and the father of 6 amazing kiddos. His leadership exposure started at a young age with Marriott hotels and evolved through two high-growth technology companies, with education from Cumberland and Stanford Universities. After Marriott, Jonathan dove into the fast paced, high change environment at Dell Computers; where he led operations and people analytics teams. In 2006, he was invited to join Asurion Corp. as a leader of HR for their supply chain organization. A few twists and turns later, he was exposed to HR for Technology, Technology leadership, Business Operations in Silicon Valley and back home, to Nashville, TN. His current role focuses on delivering the Purpose of Stansell Electric to its team members daily; enabling them to reach their full potential. That purpose is achieved through finding the right people, getting them on the team, sitting in the right seat and supporting their career achievement with great rewards, aligned incentives and robust development. Jonathan's not really limited to HR, Technology, etc.; as you will often find him knee deep in serving orphans in China. He is also the record holder of the fastest high school wrestling match in DB's history, when he was pinned in 6 seconds.

Marilyn Young, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Accounting, The Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University, began teaching at Belmont University in 2001. She has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Master of Tax Accounting from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Mississippi. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA), her industry experience includes work as a Tax Accountant for Deloitte & Touche, and Frasier, Dean, and Howard and as a Tax Specialist in Corporate Finance at Empire Berol Corporation. Before coming to Belmont University, she taught at Lipscomb University. Her teaching experience at Belmont includes both undergraduate and graduate classes in taxation and corporate accounting. Dr. Young also helps non-accounting students prepare to enter the Master in Accountancy program by teaching in the Summer Accounting Institute. She has presented her research at various regional and national conferences. Articles she has written have been published in professional journals including the International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration Tennessee CPA, Economics and Politics, and Journal of S Corporation Taxation. Dr. Young holds membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, American Accounting Association, and American Taxation Association. McGraw-Hill/Irwin sought her expertise as a textbook reviewer for a new textbook entitled Taxation for Individuals. She has overseen Belmont students working in the IRS-sponsored VITA program to assist low income and elderly residents of Middle Tennessee prepare their income tax returns and she presented basic financial accounting concepts to entrepreneurs participating in The Growth Challenge Program. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants awarded her honorable mention in the Bea Sanders/AICPA Innovation in Teaching Award. She received an Outstanding Teaching Award from Lipscomb University and Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Business Administration at Belmont University. Named multiple times as the Most Inspirational Professor of The Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business and the Faculty Member of the Year by the Beta Alpha Psi chapter in the College of Business Administration, Dr. Young was presented with Belmont's highest faculty honor, The Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, in 2005.