MIC’s board of directors meets five times per year, with the executive committee meeting alternate months. Moreover, MIC has made a special effort to ensure that its board of directors reflects a similar diversity of cultures. Canada, China, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are represented on this year’s board. Such diversity provides invaluable guidance to all MIC programming and encourages MIC staff and volunteers to model the cross-cultural communication objectives of our programs.
MIC Board of Directors
Chair:
Susan B. Plimpton
Treasurer:
Robert W. Sit, Sit Investment Associates, Inc.
Directors:
Dr. Daryoush Allaei, QRDC, Inc.
Susan Alpert, Ph.D., M.D., Medtronic, Inc.
David J. Berry
Melissa Camarena, MCM Designs
Mary Capozzi, Best Buy Co., Inc.
Mary Jane Carlson
Jeanne Votca Carpenter, Perception
Kathleen Danakis, KPMG LLP
Tom Gitaa, Mshale Newspaper
Robert Golian, Nestlé HealthCare Nutrition, Inc.
Peter C. Hawthorne, Cargill, Inc.
Peggy Herrmann, Donaldson Company, Inc.
Eric H. Jackson, Conservis Advisory Services
Nathalie Joly
Rohan Kalbag, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Avigya Karki
Fredrik Korallus, Carlson Hotels Worldwide
Ron Lattin
Doug Leatherdale, D.W. Leatherdale Consulting
Judith Frost Lewis
Sharon Lim
Eloise J. Maki, 3M Company
Robert Manning, Global Perspective
Phillip J. Mason, Ecolab Inc.
Laura C. Merriam
Helen Metz, Ketchum Metz, Inc.
Leni D. Moore
Kathleen Smith Ruhland, Faegre & Benson LLP
Sara Stenberg, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Wendy Tai, General Mills, Inc.
Kay A. Thomas, International Student Scholar Services, University of Minnesota
Micheal J. Thompson, Saint Paul Public Schools
Geert Henk Touw, Stakeholder Satisfaction, LLC
John Tuttle, Haberman
Richard E. Weiner, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Ex Officio Directors
Ana Luisa Fajer, Consul of Mexico
Martin Loken, Consul General of Canada
Honorary Directors
Sheila Bonsignore
Charlie Hartwell
Gary Capen
Tom Colwell
David Fox
Robert K. McCrea
Emily Anne Tuttle
Katherine W. Youngblood
MIC Past Chairs
Gladys Brooks (1953-63)
Thomas Colwell (1963-65)
Wheelock Whitney (1965-67)
Mary Van Kirk (1967-69)
Wilbur M. Bennet (1969-71)
Wallace Doerr (1971-73)
William Drake (1973-75)
Paul Cashman (1975-76)
Benjamin Field (1976-79)
Gary Capen (1979-81)
Ruth Fitzmaurice (1981-83)
Joan Higinbotham (1983-85)
Connie DeLand (1985-86)
Theodore Furber (1986-88)
Patricia McGill (1988-90)
Scott B. Hill (1990-92)
Sheila Bonsignore (1992-96)
Emily Anne Tuttle (1996-98)
Robert McCrea (1998-01)
Katherine Youngblood (2001-03)
Charlie Hartwell (2003-05)
David Fox (2005-07)
Rob Scarlett (2007-09)
