Board of Trustees

Members Biographies and Addresses

Brian W. Fannon

Mr. Brian W. Fannon, vice chair
President
Strategic Operational Solutions, LLC
21555 Chase Drive
Novi, MI 48375
(248) 379-2941
fanno1bw@cmich.edu

Term expires December 31, 2014

Board committees
College of Medicine
Finance and Facilities, chair
Trustees-Faculty Liaison



Fannon, President of Strategic Operational Solutions, LLC, a business management consulting firm, was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Jennifer Granholm for an eight-year term beginning June 14, 2007. He received his bachelor's degree and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Detroit. He and his wife are residents of Novi.



 

Dr. Marilyn French Hubbard
President & CEO
Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Change Agents, LLC
1955 Tuckaway Drive 
Bloomfield Township, MI 48302
(313) 770-1050
hubba1mf@cmich.edu

Term expires December 31, 2012

Board committees:
College of Medicine, chair
Finance and Facilities
Trustees-Faculty Liaison



Hubbard, president and CEO of Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Change Agents, LLC, was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Jennifer Granholm on January 27, 2005. She previously served as corporate vice president and chief diversity officer for Henry Ford Health System.  Earlier in her career she was selected by Chrysler Corporation as one of the first four women nationwide to be trained to own and operate Chrysler dealerships. In 2008 she was appointed to the board of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB). She received her bachelor's degree from University of Detroit Mercy, a Master of Science in Administration degree from CMU; and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from The American Institute of Holistic Theology. Hubbard lives in Bloomfield Township.



 

Mr. John D. Hurd
(retired:  president, Cabrillo Community College)
624 Ridgewood Court
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
hurd1jd@cmich.edu

Term expires December 31, 2016

Board committees:
Academic and Student Affairs
Audit, chair
Policy and Bylaws
Trustees-Faculty Liaison



Hurd, retired president of Cabrillo Community College, Santa Cruz, California, was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Jennifer Granholm on January 27, 2009, for an eight-year term. He has also served as president of Mohegan Community College in Norwich, Connecticut, and vice president of instruction and student services at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor. Hurd was a member of the faculty at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Eastern Michigan University.  He also served as Washtenaw County Administrator/Controller, as the elected township supervisor of Lyndon Township in Washtenaw County, and is currently the chair of the Jackson County Road Commission.  Mr. Hurd has a B.B.A and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. He is a resident of Ann Arbor. 

 


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Mr. William R. Kanine
Certified Public Accountants
William R. Kanine, P.C.
405 North Division Road, Suite 1
Petoskey, MI 49770
(231) 348-7900
kanin1wr@cmich.edu

Term expires December 31, 2018

Board committees:
Academic and Student Affairs
College of Medicine
Finance and Facilities
Trustees-Faculty Liaison, chair


Kanine, a certified public accountant and shareholder of William R. Kanine P.C. Certified Public Accountants in Petoskey, was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Rick Snyder on January 18, 2011, for an eight-year term. William R. Kanine P.C. provides accounting and audit, tax and advisory services to individuals and businesses in the Petoskey and surrounding area.  Bill graduated from Central Michigan University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in accounting. Bill and his wife Carla (CMU 89) have two daughters and five grandchildren and reside in Petoskey.

 


Sam R. Kottamasu

Dr. Sam R. Kottamasu, chair
12 Lumbermen Way
Saginaw, MI 48603
(989) 497-0565
kotta1sr@cmich.edu

Term expires December 31, 2012

Board committees:
The chair serves as an ex officio member of all committees.



Kottamasu, a radiologist with Advanced Diagnostic Imaging P.C., in Saginaw and clinical professor of radiology at Wayne State University's School of Medicine, was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Jennifer Granholm on January 27, 2005, for an eight-year term. Prior to his current position Dr. Kottamasu served as vice chief of radiology, director of nuclear medicine and director of the radiology residency program at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit; as division head of pediatric radiology at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit; and assistant professor of radiology at University of Michigan's School of Medicine. He began building partnerships for CMU prior to his appointment and has been instrumental in bringing international students to the university for an MBA. He plans to continue facilitating partnerships between CMU and other universities and area hospitals. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Andhra University, India. He has more than 60 publications in peer reviewed journals and text books and coauthored a text book. He is a recipient of several research grants. Dr. Kottamasu and his wife live in Saginaw.

 


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Dr. Patricia A. Maryland
Post Office Box 1065
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
(586) 753-0710
maryl1pa@cmich.edu

Term expires December 31, 2018

Board committees:
College of Medicine
Finance and Facilities
Policy and Bylaws
Trustees-Student Liaison



Maryland was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Rick Snyder on January 18, 2011, for an eight-year term.  Dr. Maryland is president and CEO of St. John Providence Health System.   (Site to be developed.)

 




Ms. Sarah R. Opperman, vice chair
(retired:  vice president, The Dow Chemical Company)
3001 Scarborough Lane
Midland, MI 48640
(989) 492-4179
opper1sr@cmich.edu

Term expires December 31, 2016

Board committees:
Academic and Student Affairs, chair
Audit
Trustees-Student Liaison


Opperman was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Jennifer Granholm on January 27, 2009, for an eight-year term expiring December 31, 2016. Ms. Opperman joined Dow in 1981 and retired from the company in 2009 as global vice president of government affairs and public policy.  She now owns a public affairs consultancy.  A 1981 graduate of CMU, Ms. Opperman previously served on the CMU Alumni Association Board of Directors, and currently is a member of CMU's Development Board, chairing the University Development Committee.  She is a 2006 inductee to CMU's Journalism Department Hall of Fame and serves on the Journalism Department Professional Advisory Board.  Ms. Opperman and her husband, Dan, have two sons.

 


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Mr. Robert F. Wardrop II
President and Attorney
Wardrop & Wardrop P.C.
300 Ottawa Avenue, N.W.
Suite 150
Grand Rapids, MI  49503
(616) 459-1225
wardr2rf@cmich.edu

Term expires December 31, 2014

Board Committees:
Audit
Policy and Bylaws, chair
Trustees-Student Liaison, chair

 

Wardrop was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Jennifer Granholm on March 24, 2010, to complete a term ending December 31, 2014.  Wardrop is a practicing attorney with Wardrop & Wardrop, P.C., and has a lifelong affiliation with Central Michigan University.  Wardrop grew up in Mount Pleasant and attended grade school on the campus of CMU.  He earned a bachelor's degree in math from CMU and a master's degree in economics.  He subsequently taught for two years in the economics department.  After graduating magna cum laude from the University of Detroit School of Law, Wardrop served 18 years on the CMU Alumni Association Board of Directors, including two as president.  Mr. Wardrop and his wife Rae Marie, who also attended CMU, are residents of Grand Rapids and Atlantic Beach, Florida.

 

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Dr. George E. Ross
President
Central Michigan University

Ex officio member of the Board of Trustees

http://www.cmich.edu/president