CMU trustees elect board officers

The Central Michigan University Board of Trustees has elected Brian Fannon to be chairman for 2013. Fannon replaces Sam Kottamasu, who served as chairman in 2012.

 

Fannon, president of Strategic Operational Solutions LLC, a business management consulting firm, was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Gov. 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.

 

In addition to his role as board chair, Fannon also chairs the board’s Finance and Facilities Committee and is a member of the College of Medicine and Trustees-Faculty Liaison committees.

 

Trustees also elected John Hurd and Robert Wardrop as co-vice chairmen of the board.

 

President George E. Ross and trustees also recognized Marilyn French Hubbard and Sam Kottamasu, whose terms on the board expire at the end of the year. Both were appointed to eight-year terms on the CMU Board of Trustees in January 2005. Hubbard and Kottamasu were thanked and praised for their years of dedication and service to the university and its students.

 

Hubbard is president and CEO of Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Change Agents LLC. Earlier in her career she was selected by Chrysler Corp. 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.

 

Kottamasu is a radiologist with Advanced Diagnostic Imaging P.C. in Saginaw and clinical professor of radiology at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine. 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 the University of Michigan’s School of Medicine.

 

CMU trustees are gubernatorial appointees. It is not known when Gov. Rick Snyder will name replacements.