Alan Ashley
Alan Ashley was named chief of sport performance for the United States Olympic Committee on Sept. 1, 2010, after previously serving as managing director of sport performance since January 2010. Prior to that, Ashley served as a team leader in the sport performance division beginning in December 2006. In his current role, Ashley oversees the […]
Mike Thompson
As a citizen Soldier, Mike Thompson has a distinguished public service career. Thompson has over 30 years of service with the state of Oklahoma, including 25 years with the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, graduating from the 45th Oklahoma Highway Patrol Academy in 1990. Thompson rose to the rank of Major with the Oklahoma Highway […]
Dave Hager
Dave Hager is president and chief executive officer of Devon Energy Corporation, one of the nation’s largest independent oil and natural gas producers. He assumed his current position in August 2015. He previously served as chief operating officer. From 2007 until joining the company in 2009 as executive vice president of exploration and production, Hager […]
Everett Dobson
– Chief Executive Officer, Dobson Technologies Everett currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for Dobson Technologies. He was born in Guthrie, OK and grew up in Cheyenne, OK. He attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. In 1989, with the help of family-owned Dobson Telephone Company, Everett […]
Don Betz
– President of the University of Central Oklahoma University of Central Oklahoma President Don Betz has made it his life’s passion to help students learn. Throughout his distinguished career of more than 45 years in higher education, Dr. Betz has developed a reputation for teaching and encouraging students, for his unmatched energy and enthusiasm, and […]
Rear Admiral Margaret Deluca “Peg” Klein
– Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Military Professionalism A native of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Rear Admiral Margaret Klein was commissioned in May 1981 upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy. She earned her Master of Education from the University of Southern Maine in 1999. A naval flight officer, Klein’s operational assignments include multiple […]
Joy Hofmeister
– State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister was sworn in as Oklahoma’s 14th State Superintendent of Public Instruction on January 12, 2015. She is a former public school teacher and small business owner. She served on the Oklahoma State Board of Education from January 2012 through April 2013 as an appointee of Governor Mary Fallin. […]
Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Seyed Hossein Mousavian is an associate research scholar at the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is a former diplomat who served as Iran’s Ambassador to Germany (1990-1997), Head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran’s National Security Council (1997-2005), Spokesman for Iran in […]
Deana McCloud
Executive Director of the Woody Guthrie Center Deana McCloud is the Executive Director of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa’s Brady Arts District. She is a member of the Brady Arts District Business Association, Folk Alliance International, and the Tulsa Regional Chamber. In addition, she serves on the board of The Oklahoma Center for Poets […]
Mai Ly Do
Founder, Vietnamese Public Radio – Oklahoma Mai Ly Do AKA Marlene Do was one of the Vietnamese boat people who fled the communist regime on April 30, 1975, in search of freedom. She is the third child of a family of seven children. The Do family struggled with their new environment and a new […]
Jeff Riles
Manager of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Enel Green Power Jeff Riles is the Manager of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Enel Green Power North America based in the Washington D.C. office. Riles directs state level policy, government relations, and government affairs for EGP-NA. Throughout his work, Riles serves as a lead policy counsel within the […]