The Armed Forces Student Group requests the honor of your presence for our annual Dining Out banquet. This year the event is expanding beyond students to include alumni who are veterans. We hope you will be able to join us in Chicago as we build the Booth veteran community.
Program
7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Cocktail Reception
8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Program and Dinner
10:00 PM-11:00 PM: Networking Reception
Speaker Profiles
Eric J. Gleacher (US Marine Corps) (Speaker) '67
President of the Mess
http://www.gleacher.com/ourfirm/leadership/managementteam/Pages/EricGleacher.aspx
Mr. Gleacher was elected Chairman of the Board in June 2009 in connection with the Company's acquisition of Gleacher Partners, Inc. Mr. Gleacher was the Chief Executive Officer of the Company from February 2010 to October 2010. Mr. Gleacher was the founder of Gleacher Partners, Inc. in 1990 and acted as its Chairman. Previously, Mr. Gleacher founded the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 1978 and headed Global Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Gleacher is Chairman of the Institute for Sports Medicine Research at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, Chairman of the Ransome Scholarship Trust for St. Andrews University in St. Andrews, Scotland, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University. Mr. Gleacher received an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA from Northwestern University. Mr. Gleacher served as a United States Marine Corp. infantry officer.
Charles M. Harper (US Air Force) (Speaker) '50
Special Guest
CHARLES M. HARPER earned his BS in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1949 and his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1950.
After earning his MBA, Harper spent five years at General Motors Corp. in Lansing, Michigan, working in methods engineering. In 1955, he joined the Pillsbury Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he worked for 20 years and rose to the level of group vice-president. In 1974, he joined ConAgra in Nebraska as executive vice-president and chief operating officer. In 1981, Harper became ConAgra's chairman and CEO.
In 1991, business leaders ranked Harper among the top American business masterminds for the remarkable turnaround of ConAgra. Under his leadership, ConAgra diversified and grew, becoming one of the top 20 industrial corporations in the United States. Harper engineered the company's strong rebound from losses in 1974 to $232 million in net income for 1990.
Harper served as a director of Burlington Northern Inc., Norwest Corporation, Peter Kiewit & Sons, and Valmont Industries, Inc. He was a member of the Business Roundtable, a director of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc., a member of the board of trustees of the Committee for Economic Development in Washington DC, a director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of its Food and Agriculture Committee.
Patrick R. Daley (US Army) (Speaker) '04
Distinguished Speaker
http://turpartners.com/team.html
Mr. Daley has led and completed growth capital, management buyout and distressed investments across multiple sectors, including telecommunications, consumer products, logistics and financial services throughout the United States as well as in Russia and the CIS Region. Mr. Daley also worked in the Investment Banking group of Bear Stearns in New York specializing in Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging. Mr. Daley served in the United States Army and is a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom. He received a B.A. from the University of Illinois in Champaign–Urbana, an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a CFA charterholder.
Sunil Kumar (Speaker)
Special Guest
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=26619906048
Sunil Kumar's academic research includes performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks. In particular, he studies systems affected by stochastic variability via mathematical models. He also studies application of optimization methods and control theory to managerial problems. Kumar has published dozens of scholarly research articles and has served as the editor of the Stochastic Models area of the journal Operations Research. He co-developed a widely used factory simulator for teaching operations management. The simulator, "Littlefield Technologies," has been used in classes at more than 50 business and engineering schools. He also served as an operations consultant to several companies.Kumar joined the Chicago Booth faculty on January 1, 2011, after spending 14 years on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs, overseeing the school's MBA program and leading faculty groups in marketing and organizational behavior.
Born in India, Kumar received a Master of Engineering degree in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mangalore University in Surathkal. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Questions
Tracey Pavlishin, '06
Director, Alumni Affairs
773.834.4415