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. Belgium, Canada, China, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Norway, 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 Officers and Directors
Executive Committee
Chair
Robert H. Scarlett, Medical Equipment Exports, Inc.
Treasurer
Susan M. Plimpton
Past Chair
David Fox, Railway Equipment Company
Membership Committee Chair
Eric Jackson, Carbonless Planet
Development Committee Chair
Rohan Kalbag, Wells Fargo HSBC Trade Bank, N.A.
Marketing Committee Joint Chairs
Jeanne Votca Carpenter, Perception/John Tuttle, Haberman & Associates, Inc.
Board Affairs Committee Chair
Michael T. McCormick, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Directors
Dr. Daryoush Allaei, QRDC, Inc.
Susan Alpert, PhD, MD, Medtronic, Inc.
C. Christopher Bercaw, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Susan Busch, Best Buy Co., Inc.
Melissa Camarena, MCM Designs
Mary Jane Carlson
Tom Gitaa, Mshale Newspaper
Peter Hawthorne, Cargill, Inc.
Avigya Karki, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota
Doug Leatherdale, D. W. Leatherdale Consulting
Judith Frost Lewis
Sharon Lim
Wilson K. Lundsgaard, General Mills, Inc.
Laura C. Merriam
Leni Darrow Moore
Kent Pekel, Consortium for Postsecondary Success, University of Minnesota
Sharon Pfeifer, Department of Natural Resources
Thomas W. Schnack, Ecolab
Robert W. Sit, Sit Investment Associates, Inc.
Edward (Ted) Tarsa, 3M Company
Alain L. Thiry, MotivAction, LLC
Kay A. Thomas, International Student and Scholar Services, University of Minnesota
Geert Henk Touw, Stakeholder Satisfaction
Richard E. Weiner, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Ex Officio Directors
Rolf Willy Hansen, Consul General
Royal Norwegian Consulate General Minneapolis
Nathan Wolf
Consul Mexican Consulate General St. Paul
Honorary Directors
Sheila Bonsignore
Gladys Brooks
Gary Capen
Tom Colwell, Colwell Industries
Robert K. McCrea
Emily Anne Tuttle
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)
