Board of Trustees

Paving the Way Through Experience

 

As the governing board for the not-for-profit university, the Trine University Board of Trustees currently has 30 members who serve without compensation.

Board Chair, Dr. Jerry L. Allen
President
TVC Communications, Inc.
Wadsworth, Ohio
Elected 1995

Board Vice Chair, James P. Fabiani
Chairman and CEO
Fabiani & Company, LLC
McLean, Virginia
Elected 2001

Board Secretary, Dr. Ralph D. Trine
Chairman and CEO
Vestil Manufacturing Company
Angola, Indiana
Elected 1990

James Bock
President/Owner
Bock Engineering Co.
Elkhart, Indiana
Elected 2003

Lynn Brooks
President and CEO
Rieke Packaging Systems
Auburn, Indiana
Elected 2007

Dr. Keith Busse
President and CEO
Steel Dynamics, Inc.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Elected 2003

Dr. Suzanne Ehinger
CEO
Parkview Hospital and Affiliates
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Elected 2007

Dr. Lawrence A. Franks, Chair Emeritus
Secretary/Treasurer
Burr Oak Tool, Inc.
Sturgis, Michigan
Served 1984-2002
Reelected 2004

Dr. Tomas Furth
President
Sudamtex Holding
Caracas, Venezuela
Elected 1997

Dr. William A. Gettig, Chair Emeritus
President and CEO
Gettig Technologies, Inc.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Elected 1984

Dr. John N. Hester
Associate Dean Emeritus,
College of Engineering
California State University
California
Elected 2000

Rick L. James
Chairman/CEO
Metal Technologies Inc.
Auburn, Indiana
Elected 2010

Dr. Robert L. Jannen, Chair Emeritus
President (ret.)
Burnley Corporation
Huntsville, Alabama
Elected 1969

Dennis Kruse
Indiana State Senator
Auburn, Indiana
Elected 2010

Stephen R. LaHood
Senior Vice President Operations
PartyLite
Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360
Elected 2004

Phillip H. Mayberry

President (ret.)

Centennial Wireless
Investor, Congeries LLC
Clear Lake, Indiana
Elected 2010

Dr. John J. McKetta, Jr.
Registered Professional Engineer
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Elected 1957

John J. "Mike" McKetta III
Managing Partner
Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, P.C.
Austin, Texas
Elected 2004

Richard L. Oeder
Area Manager (ret.)
Columbia Gas of Ohio
Morrow, Ohio
Elected 1995

Dr. John A. Pittman, Chair Emeritus
President (ret.)
The Fieldbus Foundation
Austin, Texas
Elected 1997

Dr. J. Winston Porter
President
Waste Policy Center
Leesburg, Virginia
Elected 2006 

Larry E. Reiners
Manager
Makoi Group, L.L.C.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Elected 2009

Mitchel E. Rhoads
Chairman of Rhoads Holdings Ltd. Inc.
and LePeep Restaurant
Colorado
Elected 2006

Ian M. Rolland
Chairman (ret.)
Lincoln National Corp.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Elected 2010

Clifford D. Ryan
Owner/CEO (ret.)
United Waste Water Services, Inc.
Naples, Florida
Elected 2009

Jack A. Shaw
President/CEO (ret.)
Hughes Electronics Corporation
Coldwater, Michigan
Elected 2010

Wayne M. Shive
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Elected 2008

Dr. Sheri Trine
Director of Human Relations and Accounting
Vestil Manufacturing Company
Angola, Indiana
Elected 2007

Gary Ward
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Elected 2007

R. Wyatt Weaver Jr., M.D.
Private Practice
Angola, Indiana
Elected 2004