PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Dr. David A. T. Donohue is the Founder and President of both IHRDC and Arlington Storage Corporation. Dr. Donohue is a technical specialist, businessman, attorney and lecturer who has worked in the development of energy projects where he has a senior equity position. He is a former Associate Professor of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, and held various positions in engineering and research for Exxon before becoming a developer of energy projects. He is an active developer of underground gas storage fields in New York State, an explorer for oil and gas in the US and Ireland, and a developer of innovative learning systems for the energy industry. He lectures broadly in the industry management programs. Dr. Donohue holds a Ph.D. degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School.

Derek Harvey is a Senior Consultant, who spent 32 years with Mobil Oil Corporation specializing in Human Resource Management. His career has been dedicated to finding ways to improve organization effectiveness and enhancing employee contributions. He has made major contributions at both the corporate as well as the international affiliate levels (Far East, Middle East, West Africa, Europe and the US) in such key areas as grass roots new projects, turnaround situations, mature organizations, and corporate reorganizations. His most recent assignment was as the Assistant to the Vice President of QatarGas. He has a record of pioneering change, including the use of benchmarking, sophisticated workforce analysis, succession planning and executive career development program, work family programs; and global employee surveys. He received the BSc in Economics (Honors) from Kingston University and the Diploma of Industrial Administration (MSc equivalent) from Bath University.

Mary Munter has taught management communication for over 25 years—for seven years at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and since 1983 at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford. Professor Munter is considered one of the leaders in the management communication field. Among her publications are Guide to Managerial Communication—recently published in its sixth edition and named "one of the five best business books" by the Wall Street Journal. In addition to publishing many other articles and books, she has consulted with over 90 corporate clients worldwide—including Bain & Company, Bechtel, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Center for Naval Analysis, Duracell, General Foods, Gulf Oil, IBM, MasterCard, Tenneco, United Technologies, and Warner-Lambert.

Robert F. Ryan, the former Chief Executive Officer of McBer and Company in Boston, is a management consultant who works with corporations to increase individual and group effectiveness and performance. The primary focus of his work is improving leadership through coaching, assessment and selection, and the design and implementation of leadership development systems. Mr. Ryan’s clients include Mobil Oil Corporation, General Electric, Rohm and Haas and Texas Instruments, both domestically and internationally. He received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Boston College. “IHRDC offers the best

Dr. Kermitt Walrond currently Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Neal & Massy Energy Company in Trinidad & Tobago spent 28 years of international service with Amoco, BP and Shell. His early experience was in engineering and operations with British Petroleum (Trinidad) Ltd followed by five years with Shell in research before joining Amoco, where he held progressively more senior positions including Regional Production Manager, Houston; Production Manager, Norway; Manager of Engineering, Worldwide; and Vice President, Production & Transportation, for BP's Caspian operations in Azerbaijan and Georgia. He has three degrees in Petroleum Engineering - a B.Sc. (Honors) from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Walrond was a Distinguished Lecturer for the SPE in 1988-89 and was elected a Distinguished Member in 1991. The Pennsylvania State University has honored him as a Centennial Fellow, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences (1996) and as an Alumni Fellow (1997).