GOLDEN, Colo., Dec. 4, 2014 – Jerre Stead, executive chairman of IHS Inc., a global information company with expertise in areas shaping today’s business landscape including energy, economics, geopolitical risk, sustainability and supply chain management, will deliver the keynote address during the Colorado School of Mines midyear convocation on Dec. 12.
Mines will confer 212 bachelor’s degrees, 155 master’s degrees and 62 doctorate degrees during the graduation ceremony to be held at 9:30 a.m. in the Student Recreation Center on the university’s campus.
Stead, who has been with IHS since 2000, was named chief recovery officer by Gov. Hickenlooper following the 2013 floods, and was the Denver Post’s Business Person of the Year in 2013.
He began his career in 1965 at Honeywell, Inc., where he spent 21 years and held a number of executive management positions in the United States and Europe. Stead is a graduate of the University of Iowa where he earned his BBA, and of the Harvard University Advanced Management Program in Switzerland. He has been on 34 corporate boards during his career and in 2009 he was chosen as an outstanding director, one of 55 in the last ten years by the Financial Times. He currently serves on the Salk Institute Board of Directors, as chairman of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute and chairman of the board of Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He is a past chairman of the National Electronic Manufacturers Association and the Center of Ethics and Values at the Garrett Seminary.
Contact:
Karen Gilbert, Director of Public Relations, Colorado School of Mines | 303-273-3541 | kgilbert@mines.edu
Kathleen Morton, Communications Coordinator, Colorado School of Mines | 303-273-3088 | kmorton@mines.edu