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Professor of Management and Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Center, Northern Kentucky University, USA. Dan Jennings is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution in Texas A&M University's Dwight Look College of Engineering. Dr. Jennings' corporate career includes engineering, corporate planning, and managerial positions with Armstrong World Industries, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, Olinkraft, Inc. (now Riverwood International), Boise Cascade Corporation, and Certainteed Corporation in locations in the United States, Canada, and South America. His industry experience involves manufacturing and distribution activities. Previously the W. A. Mays Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Baylor University, Jennings holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, a M.B.A. from Northeast Louisiana University, and a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee. He is a registered professional engineer. He has served as a Visiting Professor at Universities in Russia, France, Canada, and Australia and has conducted executive development programs in the U.S., Canada, France, and Italy. As a published author of 10 textbooks and more than 100 articles in academic and practitioner journals, Jennings has received awards from the Academy of Management, Prentice-Hall Publishing, McGraw-Hill Publishing, New York University and Baylor University for his publications. His work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Ms. Heavrin has practiced law for 28 years primarily in the public sector as an attorney for local government in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to negotiating numerous litigation settlements and contracts, she has negotiated a number of major agreements such as a multi-million dollar property exchange that relocated major industries and railroads from the City s downtown wharf resulting in the development of both an award winning public park and a successful industrial park in the City s enterprise zone; an agreement between the State of Kentucky, Jefferson County, the City and a for-profit hospital for guaranteed indigent health care services for city residents; a tax sharing agreement between the City of Louisville and Jefferson County that enabled the two governments to share revenue of over two hundred million dollars and to combine their economic development programs; a multi-million dollar expansion of Waterfront Park that included a major environmental clean up and the construction of a Minor League Baseball stadium in downtown Louisville. Recently voters approved the merger of the City of Louisville and Jefferson County Governments. Ms. Heavrin is serving as Special Counsel to the first Mayor of the Metro Government. Her duties include negotiating the first labor agreement between the Metro Government and the nearly 1200 police officers serving the community.

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