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Board of Governors
- Chairman: Mark Snyderman, Senior Advisor, United Nations Global Compact
- John A. Allison IV, Chairman and CEO, BB&T Corporation
- James F. Barker, FAIA, President, Clemson University
- The Hon. Robert Benham, Justice, Georgia Supreme Court
- Tom Butz, Sr. V.P., Compliance and Ethics, Georgia-Pacific LLC
- Dudley Rochelle Carter, Attorney, Littler Mendelson
- Tammy S. Driggers, Director of Bank Sales and Research, FTRANS
- Patrice Eastham, V.P., Assurant
- J.R. Hipple, Principal, Hipple&Co. Reputation Management
- William Jennings, Managing Director, Navigant Consulting, Inc.
- Joia Johnson, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Hanesbrands, Inc.
- James R. Lientz, Jr., Chief Operating Officer, Office of the Governor of Georgia
- Teri P. McClure, Senior VP and General Counsel, UPS
- David M. Ratcliffe, Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Company
- DeWitt R. Rogers, Attorney, Troutman Sanders LLP
- Robert J. Rutland, Chairman and CEO, Greyland Development Corporation
- Thomas Salvaggio, Director, Company Integration
- Beheruz N. Sethna, Ph.D., Professor and President, University of West Georgia
- Paul R. Shlanta, Executive VP, General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, AGL Resources
- Betty L. Siegel, Ph.D., President Emeritus, Kennesaw State University
- Steven Spires, CEO and President, Wesley International
- John F. Ward, Chairman and CEO (ret.), Russell Corporation
Governor Emeritus
Richard E. Hodges, Chairman and CEO (ret.), Liller, Neal Inc.
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Staff Leadership
The Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility is directed by Steven D. Olson with management responsibilities shared Molly Nuttall, operations manager. Executives-in-residence and Center faculty combine expertise in business and professional ethics with years of practical management experience.
Steven D. Olson, Director
 A co-founder of The Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, Dr. Olson teaches ethics, leadership, corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability to corporate leaders and MBAs. He is also a well-known consultant and leadership coach, helping organizations develop the maximum potential of their people, increase productivity and sustain growth with the highest ethical standards. He personally has trained over 1,000 senior executives and managers in the areas of leadership, strategy, conflict management, ethics and organizational development.
Dr. Olson's corporate clients have included Coca-Cola USA, Kaiser-Permanente, Georgia Power, Ingersoll-Rand, Synovus Financial, LaSalle Bank, TSYS, Atherogenics, AeroVironment, ProQuest Business Solutions, Waggener-Edstrom, and Melaver Inc. Other clients have included The White House Council for Sustainable Development, Georgia Bankers Association, Georgia Department of Economic Development, Georgia Department of Medical Assistance, Georgia Health Care Consortium, Emory University, New York University, Columbus State University, University of Georgia, the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, Association of Schools of Mass Communication & Journalism, and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
He was Director of Business and Professional Ethics at Emory University's Center for Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions (1994-1999) and Instructor of Organization and Management at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. He also held appointments in Emory's School of Medicine and Department of Environmental Studies.
He earned a Ph.D. from Emory, where his doctoral dissertation on the ethics of leadership won the International Leadership Association's Frederic M. Jablin Award for the "Best Dissertation in Leadership." He also holds a Master's in Religion from Yale University.
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John W. Truslow III, Associate Director
A native of Atlanta, John Truslow graduated with a B.A. in Political Theory from The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee, and received his M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Montana, Missoula, where he specialized in teaching ethics and worked at the university's
Practical Ethics Center. He served as an ethics
consultant/senior researcher at the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) in Washington, D.C., where his clients included The New York Stock
Exchange, Lockheed Martin, Qwest and Best Western. John also served as the assistant director of research and education in the
Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.
In addition to his work at the Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, John serves as the ethics program manager for XO Communications, a Fortune 1000 company based in Herndon, Virginia. He specializes in the areas of ethics infrastructure development, the impact of organizational structure on
moral decision-making, ethics program assessment, and ethics education
and training. Other interests include the ethics of government and
politics, and human rights.
John has worked as a staffer for a state political party and as a youth director onboard a cruise ship in Hawaii. He has lived in London, England and Cap Haitien, Haiti. He also juggles.
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Ebb Oakley, Senior Fellow
Ellwood (Ebb) Oakley retired on June 1 from his position as associate professor of legal studies at the Robinson College of Business. He will continue to teach on a part-time basis. Professor Oakley was educated at Auburn University (B.S.), Emory University (M.A.) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.), where he was a staff editor of The Tax Lawyer. He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma.
He served in the U.S. Navy as the legal and administrative officer of a cruiser during a Vietnam tour. He was a partner in the Atlanta law firm Dodd, Connell & Hughes from 1974 to 1988, where his practice centered on business and health care litigation.
Until his recent retirement, Professor Oakley taught courses in business law, health law, negotiations, insurance law, and the legal and ethical environment of business in Robinson's MBA program. He received the distinguished Teaching Award from Robinson in 1993, as well as a national teaching award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in 2000. He has participated in medical/legal programs as a faculty fellow at Dartmouth College and the Medical University of South Carolina.
Professor Oakley's research interests focus on increased use of alternative dispute resolution in business and applied business ethics. His works have been published in Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Ethics, South Carolina Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, Journal of Insurance Regulation, Georgia Bar Journal, North American Actuarial Journal and The CPA Journal.
Professor Oakley currently serves as a senior arbitrator and mediator on panels of the American Arbitration Association, the National Association of Securities Dealers ("Large and Complex Case" designation) and the American Health Lawyers Association, and as an administrative hearing officer for the State Health Planning Agency (Certificate of Need). He has mediated or arbitrated more than 200 business-related disputes.
Professor Oakley consults with public and private companies on matters of designing and implementing ethics compliance programs. He also conducts corporate training programs on effective negotiation skills development, based on his participation in the Harvard Law School's "Teaching Negotiations" workshop.
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Molly Nuttall, Operations Manager
Molly Nuttall is Operations Manager of The Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, where she is responsible for financial management, program logistics and other administrative functions. Ms. Nuttall joined the Center in 2001, bringing 15 years of experience as a manager in leading business organizations. Most recently, she was a Marketing Manager for Wachovia Corporation where she managed approximately 200 projects annually and was instrumental in the creation of web resources for the sales force.
Earlier, she was with United Parcel Service, serving as a Marketing Supervisor and developing profit-driven pricing and discount strategies for large national and regional shippers. She began her career with Decatur Federal Savings & Loan Association, where she was both Market Research Manager and Mortgage Product Manager, and at Barnett Bank, where she was a loan officer.
Ms. Nuttall earned a Master's of Business Administration degree at Virginia Tech, receiving the Harold B. Berry Scholarship. After graduating, she was a marketing instructor in the business college, preparing and presenting 12 hours of marketing management lectures weekly. She earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Stetson University, graduating cum laude.
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 John F. (Jack) Ward, former chairman and chief executive officer of Russell Corporation, is Executive-In-Residence at
The Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. He provides thought leadership in subject areas including global corporate responsibility, ethics and governance.
He led Russell Corporation from April 1998 until August 2006 when the company was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Russell is a $1.4 billion international sporting goods company with athletic apparel, equipment and athletic shoes sold under the Russell Athletic, Jerzees, Spalding, Brooks, Mossy Oak, Huffy Sports, Moving Comfort, Bike, AAI, Dudley and Cross Creek brand names. During his eight years with Russell, Ward moved the company from being primarily a domestic activewear apparel company to a global sporting goods company with many internationally known brands in its portfolio.
Ward began his career in 1966 with Procter & Gamble and joined H. J. Heinz in 1968, where he was product manager for several brands. In 1972, he joined Hanes Corporation in Winston-Salem, N.C. as product manager for the expansion of L'eggs hosiery and was named vice president of marketing for L'eggs in 1975. From 1979 until 1993, Ward was president and CEO of several divisions of Sara Lee Corporation (the acquirer of Hanes Corporation) and was appointed senior vice president of Sara Lee Corporation in 1992 and chief executive officer of the Hanes Group of companies in 1993. His responsibilities with Sara Lee Corporation included operations in more than 20 countries with multi-billion dollar sales responsibilities for a broad range of apparel products.
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From 1996 until he joined Russell Corporation, Ward was president of the J. F. Ward Group, an apparel and textile consulting company. In addition, he was an executive-in-residence and taught ethics at Wake Forest University's Calloway School of Business and Accounting.
Ward has served on the Boards of Directors for Lanier Worldwide, Burlington Industries, Wachovia Bank of North Carolina and Marmot Mountain, LTD. He is also a past chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA). In 2004, he was one of 10 national business leaders recognized by the Diversity Best Practices and Business Women's Network for his outstanding commitment to diversity.
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Linda DiSantis, Executive-In-Residence
 Linda K. DiSantis is Executive-In-Residence at
The Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. She holds a joint appointment in the College of Business and College of Law, developing and teaching courses for law students and graduate business students, and leading seminars and other programs for practitioners through the Center's executive education programs.
Prior to joining the institute in early 2007, she was City Attorney of Atlanta, a position she held since August 2002, having been appointed by Mayor Shirley Franklin. As City Attorney, she served as the chief legal officer for the City of Atlanta for more than four years, and was responsible for handling all civil legal matters for the City. She directed the City Law Department, which has a staff of about 90 and provides legal advice to the Mayor, the City Council, and all agencies within the City.
Ms. DiSantis led a reorganization of the city's Law Department, establishing practice groups to focus the attorneys' work, improving support staff ratios, introducing new technology, improving business processes, providing for staff development through training and interaction with the legal community, establishing an intern program for law students, and creating a system for the targeted use of outside counsel.
Prior to becoming City Attorney, she was a Vice President and managing attorney in the United Parcel Service Corporate Legal Department for almost eleven years. She managed the practice group responsible for commercial litigation, real estate and engineering issues, and environmental matters. She served as the company's principal environmental attorney and was responsible for environmental regulatory matters, environmental transactional matters, and environmental litigation. Her area of practice also included legal issues arising from health and safety issues, the transportation of hazardous materials and homeland security.
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In addition to her responsibilities in the Corporate Legal Department, she developed, implemented and provided legal support to the Corporate Compliance work of the company. In 1995, Linda chaired the project team that created the company's Business Conduct and Compliance program. In 1999, when the global version of the program was introduced, she traveled internationally and trained management personnel throughout Asia and Europe. She served as Chair of the Corporate Compliance Committee from its creation in 1996 until 2002, when she left the company. In 2000, she was given the additional responsibility of managing the Corporate Compliance Department, responsible for the company's business conduct and ethics initiatives worldwide. In 2002, she served on the CEO's Strategic Initiatives task force and was instrumental in the creation of the company's Corporate Social Responsibility program.
Prior to joining the UPS Legal Department, she was an attorney with the law firm of Alston & Bird in Atlanta and was part of the firm's environmental practice.
Ms. DiSantis is a summa cum laude graduate of the Georgia State University College of Law where she served as Managing Editor and Legislation Editor of the Law Review and is a summa cum laude graduate of Georgia State University with a B.A. in political science with a minor in economics. She is also a graduate of the Lutheran General Hospital School of Nursing, and worked as a registered nurse in a number of capacities, including the emergency room at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and the neurological unit at Case Western Reserve University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Ms. DiSantis is a member of the Board of Visitors of the GSU College of Law and serves as a director of a number of civic and environmental organizations. She was awarded the 2006 Ben F. Johnson Jr. Public Service Award from the Georgia State University College of Law for her work as Atlanta City Attorney. She was the commencement speaker at the May 2003 commencement of Georgia State University and the keynote speaker at the 2004 GSU College of Law's Law Week activities.
She was named a 2005 and 2006 Georgia Super Lawyer by Law & Politics and Atlanta Magazine and received recognition from Looking Ahead Magazine as a "woman with extraordinary talent." She was recognized in the Atlanta Business Chronicle in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 "Who's Who in Law & Accounting" edition. In 2003, the Committee on Women in the Profession of the Younger Lawyers' Section of the State Bar of Georgia named her that year's Woman of Distinction.
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Durinda Dickson, Administrative Coordinator
Durinda Dickson is Administrative Coordinator at The Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. Her primary areas of responsibility are providing executive assistance to the management team and general administrative support.
Prior to joining the Center, Ms Dickson worked at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was responsible for her department's human resource, procurement, and accounts payable functions. Before its merger with Georgia Tech, Ms. Dickson was with The Institute of Paper Science and Technology where she was a Sr. Accounting Assistant. Earlier, Ms. Dickson worked for Citizens Trust Bank as a Head Teller.
Ms. Dickson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Social Sciences from The University of the West Indies and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University.
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