Samford's Brock School of Business Adds New Members to its Advisory Board
October 21, 2009
Brock School of Business Contact: Kara Kennedy, Director of External Affairs, 205-726-4070, kkennedy@samford.edu
Birmingham, Ala. – G. Michael Escoe, Orange Business Services in Atlanta, Pete Clemens, CVS Caremark in Nashville and Joel Welker, Birmingham Business Journal in Birmingham have each been appointed by Samford University’s Board of Trustees to a two-year term on Samford University’s Brock School of Business Advisory Board.
G. Michael Escoe heads the Marketing, Communications and Business Operations division of Orange Business Services in the Americas. He is responsible for business operations and positioning Orange as the worldwide leader in business communications solutions for multinational corporations in North and South America. Before joining Orange Business Services, Escoe held senior level sales and marketing positions with the satellite division of AT&T, responsible for national account sales teams as well as domestic and international marketing initiatives. Prior to AT&T, Escoe was with BellSouth in a number of positions of increasing responsibility. He was the Director of Marketing Promotions & Communications, a role in which he was responsible for the major customer marketing
events as well as all internal and external communications programs directed toward their largest customers. Escoe has won numerous awards in recognition of his work, including the prestigious Telly and Site awards for marketing excellence. He earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Samford University, where he was recognized as the Samford University School of Business Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award recipient in 1994. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
Peter (Pete) Clemens is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Caremark, a division of CVS Caremark, and has been with the company since 1995. Clemens served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Caremark Rx, Inc. (a Fortune 60 public company) from 2005 until 2007 and before Caremark’s merger with CVS. Prior to that position, he served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer for Caremark and was Vice President of Finance and Treasurer from 1995 until 1998. Before joining Caremark, Clemens worked in Corporate Banking with AmSouth Bank (now Regions) as well as Wachovia Bank. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Samford University. He resides in Nashville, Tenn.
Joel Welker is a veteran newspaper executive and publisher of the Birmingham Business Journal. Prior to joining the Birmingham Business Journal he was advertising director of the Atlanta Business Chronicle for eight years. The Business Journal and the Business Chronicle are owned by American City Business Journals, the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business journals. Prior to the Atla nta Business Chronicle, Welker was advertising director of the South Florida Business Journal. Welker received American City Business Journals' highest award for performance, the Eagle, in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Welker resides in Birmingham, Ala.
“Our partnerships with the corporate community helps us build relationships all around the country, said Beck A. Taylor, dean of the Brock School of Business. “Our Advisory Board is made up of outstanding individuals who have chosen to serve our school and we are grateful for their continued support of our efforts. We are thrilled that Michael, Joel and Pete have made a commitment to help us achieve our goals as a business school.”
ABOUT THE BROCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
The renaming of the Samford School of Business to the Brock School of Business in December 2007 is the latest in a long history of achievements for business education at Samford, which has offered degrees in business and commerce since 1922. In 1965, the School of Business was established to offer both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business. Alabama’s first part-time master of business administration degree program was established at Samford, and the first MBA degrees were awarded in 1967. The master of accountancy degree was approved in 1995. The business school was fully accredited by AACSB International in 1999, a recognition earned by less than 10 percent of business schools worldwide.
