MIC’s board of directors meets five times per year, with the executive committee meeting alternate months. Moreover, MIC has made a special effort to ensure that its board of directors reflects a similar diversity of cultures. Canada, China, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are represented on this year’s board. Such diversity provides invaluable guidance to all MIC programming and encourages MIC staff and volunteers to model the cross-cultural communication objectives of our programs.
MIC Board Officers and Directors
Executive Committee
Chair
Robert H. Scarlett, Medical Equipment Exports, Inc.
Chair-Elect/Treasurer
Susan M. Plimpton
Board Affairs Committee Chair
Michael T. McCormick, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Development Committee Joint Chairs
Rohan Kalbag, Wells Fargo HSBC Trade Bank, N.A.
Geert Henk Touw, Stakeholder Satisfaction, LLC
Membership Committee Chair
Eric Jackson, CP Holdings LLC
Directors
Dr. Daryoush Allaei, QRDC, Inc.
Susan Alpert, Ph.D., M.D., Medtronic, Inc.
Susan Busch, Best Buy Co., Inc.
Melissa Camarena, MCM Designs
Mary Jane Carlson
Jeanne Votca Carpenter, Perception
Tom Gitaa, Mshale Newspaper
Robert Golian, Nestlé HealthCare Nutrition, Inc.
Peter C. Hawthorne, Cargill, Inc.
Peggy Herrmann, Donaldson Company
Ron Lattin, Caux Round Table, U.S.A.
Doug Leatherdale, D.W. Leatherdale Consulting
Judith Frost Lewis
Sharon Lim, Center for Victims of Torture
Robert Manning, Global Perspective
Laura C. Merriam
Leni D. Moore
Thomas W. Schnack, Ecolab
Robert W. Sit, Sit Investment Associates, Inc.
Wendy Tai, General Mills, Inc.
Edward A. (Ted) Tarsa, 3M Company
Kay A. Thomas, International Student Scholar Services, University of Minnesota
Micheal J. Thompson, Saint Paul Public Schools
John Tuttle, Haberman & Associates, Inc.
Richard E. Weiner, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Ex Officio Directors
Ana Luisa Fajer, Consul of Mexico
Martin Loken, Consul General of Canada
Honorary Directors
Sheila Bonsignore
Gary Capen
Tom Colwell, Colwell Industries
Robert K. McCrea
Emily Anne Tuttle
Katherine W. Youngblood
MIC Past Chairs
Gladys Brooks (1953-63)
Thomas Colwell (1963-65)
Wheelock Whitney (1965-67)
Mary Van Kirk (1967-69)
Wilbur M. Bennet (1969-71)
Wallace Doerr (1971-73)
William Drake (1973-75)
Paul Cashman (1975-76)
Benjamin Field (1976-79)
Gary Capen (1979-81)
Ruth Fitzmaurice (1981-83)
Joan Higinbotham (1983-85)
Connie DeLand (1985-86)
Theodore Furber (1986-88)
Patricia McGill (1988-90)
Scott B. Hill (1990-92)
Sheila Bonsignore (1992-96)
Emily Anne Tuttle (1996-98)
Robert McCrea (1998-01)
Katherine Youngblood (2001-03)
Charlie Hartwell (2003-05)
David Fox (2005-07)
