SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE - PRESS RELEASE - November 8, 2007
SIUE Foundation Board Welcomes Four New Members
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The Monsanto CIO, the Holland Construction Services Inc. CEO, a partner at the St. Louis accounting firm RubinBrown and a clinical professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine are the newest members of the SIU Edwardsville Foundation Board of Directors.
Veteran Monsanto CIO Mark Showers joins Bruce B. Holland, CEO of Holland Construction Services Inc., RubinBrown CPA Walter R. Knepper and SIU's Dr. Neal W. Roller as the newest elected director of the Foundation Board.
Showers, who has been with Monsanto for nearly 25 years, has spent most of his career in the information technology area with the exception of two years when he was a member of the Strategic Planning group. In addition, he is a member of the External Advisory Board for the SIUE School of Business.
He also is active in the St. Louis community as chairman of the St. Louis Coalition for Information Technology, board chairman for the Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) and as a member of the Innovate St. Louis board. In addition, Showers serves on several academic advisory boards at Washington University in St. Louis. At the University of Missouri-St. Louis Showers is a member of the High Performance Computing Center Advisory Board.
In 2007, Mark was named one of the Premier 100 Leaders in Information Technology by Computerworld magazine.
Holland is responsible for business development, contract negotiations and over overall company management at Holland Construction Services Inc., which specializes in construction of shopping centers, financial institutions, health care-senior care facilities, office buildings, educational facilities and light industrial/warehouse facilities in Illinois and Missouri.
Holland has served on numerous boards and committees to promote development and growth in the Southwestern Illinois region. He has been past president, a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Transportation Committee, all for the Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois. For the Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program, he was chairman and trustee. He also is past president of Belleville Economic Progress Inc., past president and a member of the board of the Associated General Contractors/So. Illinois Builders Association, and a board member and a member of the St. Louis Regional Business Council Executive Board.
In addition, Holland has been a board member of the United Way of Greater St. Louis, the Regional Chamber and Growth Association, the Southwestern Illinois College Foundation and the Greater St. Louis Community Foundation, to name a few.
Knepper, a certified public accountant and a partner in the Tax Department at RubinBrown, specializes in estate and financial planning, succession planning, and optimizing strategies for middle market companies. His technical concentrations include pass through entities and structuring merger and acquisition transactions. His industry concentration includes manufacturing and distribution, real estate and service organizations.
In addition, Knepper has served on the boards of the Newman Center, Miriam Hall, St. Paul Books, Media Center and Family Business Forum as well as the Media Club. He also is currently board chairman of the SIUE School of Business Advisory Board.
Dr. Roller has been on the faculty of the SIU School of Dental Medicine SIU/SDM since 1975. Before that he served for two years as an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in Philadelphia. Since 1994, Roller also has been an adjunct professor at Saint Louis University Health Science Center. He is certified by the American Board of Oral Medicine and the American Board of Periodontology. He also is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists and the SIU/SDM Dean's Advisory Board.
SIUE is proud to celebrate its 50th Anniversary and first half century of excellence. The University has grown from 1,776 students in 1957 to nearly 13,500 students today. SIUE is a catalyst for the cultural and intellectual vitality and economic development of Southwestern Illinois and the greater St. Louis region.
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