William H. Cunningham Ph.D. has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2000. Dr. Cunningham served as Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of The University of Texas System from 1992 to 2000 in addition to holding the Lee Hage and Joseph D. Jamail Regents Chair in Higher Education Leadership. He served as President of The University of Texas at Austin a component institution of the University of Texas System from 1985 to 1992. He currently holds the James L. Bayless Chair for Free Enterprise at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. Dr. Cunningham serves on a number of public commissions private corporate boards and in a number of advisory roles to corporations. Dr. Cunningham serves on the board of directors of John Hancock Funds and John Hancock Funds III. He also serves on the board of directors of Lincoln National Corporation Southwest Airlines Inc. LIN Television Corporation and Hayes Lemmerz International Inc. each of which is a publicly-traded corporation. Dr. Cunningham received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from Michigan State University. In 1993 he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Michigan State University. Dr. Cunningham was awarded the Presidential Citation from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005. |