ISM Founding Board.

Rama Yelkur, Charter Member, Founding Board
and Inaugural ISM President

Current: Rama Yelkur is the Dean of the College of Business and Professor of Marketing at Texas Woman’s University.

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Eliane Karsaklian, Charter Member, Founding Board, President-Elect, and Program Chair of the Spring 2023 ISM Conference

Current: Eliane Karsaklian, Ph.D., is an unusual combination of big picture thinker, academic and practical businessperson.
Linkedin: Eliane Karsaklian

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Carrie Trimble, Founding Board, Secretary, and Program Chair of the Spring 2024 ISM Conference

Current: Carrie Trimble is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Millikin University.

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Kenneth Heischmidt, Founding Board, Treasurer

Current: Kenneth Heischmidt is a Professor in the Department of Marketing at Southeast Missouri State University.

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Linda Farrell, Charter Member, Founding Board and Co-chair of the Spring 2022 ISM Conference

Current: Linda Ferrell is the John Roth Family Faculty Fellow
of Marketing and Business Ethics.

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O. C. Farrell, Founding Board

Current: O.C. Ferrell is the James T. Pursell, Sr. Eminent Scholar in Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethical Organizational Cultures at Auburn University.

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Suzanne Altobello, Founding Board, Marketing Communications and Webmaster

Current: Suzanne Altobello is the William H. Belk Distinguished Chair of Business Administration and Professor of Marketing at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

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Judy Wiles, Charter Member and Founding Board​

Current: Dr. Wiles served as President and on the board of directors for international academic organizations, including MBAA International and the Marketing Management Association.

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Peter Gordon, Charter Member and Founding Board

Current: Peter Gordon recently retired from Southeast Missouri State University after more than 40 years of service.

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Raj Devasagayam, Founding Board

Current: Raj Devasagayam, Ph.D., who is known on campus as Dean Raj, began his tenure at the Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University on July 1, 2021.

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