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Executive Connections mentors

During the two-year W. P. Carey Full-time MBA program, you are encouraged to work with this elite group of mentors in as many ways and as often as possible. Their experience brings both a unique perspective and a necessary real-world component to the Full‑time MBA. Executive Connections will deepen your skills, challenge your thinking, and develop your expertise.

W. P. Carey’s Executive Connections program currently has 40 mentors — representing over 1,000 years of corporate experience.

Meet our executive mentors

The level of access and the number of coaching opportunities available to you through the Executive Connections program are rare among top business schools. Interaction with senior leaders of this caliber will help round out a more complete, more impactful MBA experience at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

The diversity of our mentors echoes that of our students, with a breadth of industries, expertise, demographics, and experiences represented.

Over half of Executive Connections mentors have C-suite experience, running companies while living in over 20 countries around the world.

Executive Connections mentors have over 400 years of managerial experience in technology, marketing, and finance.

Two-thirds of our mentors have worked at the executive level in consulting or manufacturing.

Mentor profiles and directory

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Nancy Campo

Nancy Campo

Vice President-Lead Commercial Relationship Manager

Nancy Campo is a Lead Relationship Manager for the Wells Fargo Commercial Banking team in Scottsdale Arizona, where she manages clients with annual revenue of up to $100 million.

Nancy joined Wells Fargo in 2018 as a Commercial Banker and has held various senior roles within Wells Fargo and other well respected financial institutions. She is skilled in Sales, Relationship Building, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Treasury Solutions and Financial Analysis. Daily job functions include managing a portfolio of clients and developing new client relationships. Nancy earned her degree in Corporate Finance from Hofstra University’s School of Business. She was accepted into and completed the very prestigious Credit Training Program offered by Chemical Bank in New York and has continued to enhance her credit acumen over many years.

Nancy currently sits on the Board of The Scottsdale Area Chamber, the Sponsorship Council for NAWBO and is active with local charities, including Valley Life. She has held Board Positions with Women’s Enterprise Foundation and Women in Business. She is a member of the national council for DE& I for Wells Fargo, as well as, other national leadership councils for the bank.

In her free time, Nancy loves to hike and spend time with her family.

John Clifford

John Clifford

In July of 2018, John retired from Travelers, a Fortune 100, Dow 30 property casualty company based in New York City after 34 years of service, the last 15 as executive vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO). As CHRO, John led all talent acquisition, management development, employee relations, compensation and benefits for a 30,000-plus employee organization operating in the U.S. and selected international markets. He was responsible for roughly $3 billion in employee salaries, bonuses, equity, pension, and welfare benefits as well as staff in excess of 400.

During his career, John oversaw a number of mergers, acquisitions, and divestures, the largest of which was the merger of The St. Paul Companies, Inc. and Travelers Property Casualty. At the time, it was the largest merger in the property casualty industry and formed the second-largest U.S. writer of commercial property casualty insurance.

Prior to his retirement, John served on the board of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, the Minnesota Children’s Museum, and the Minnesota Private College Council. He was a guest lecturer at the undergraduate and graduate level at the Cornell University’s School of Industrial Relations and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

In retirement, John serves as Vice Chair and Treasurer of Act One, a non-profit organization that helps Title One children experience the arts through in-person and virtual reality field trips. He is an Executive in Residence at the W. P. Carey School of Business mentoring MBA candidates and guest lecturing undergraduate students. He also serves as a volunteer English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at Promise Arizona (PAZ), a local community center.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Carleton College and a Master of Public Policy Administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. John and his wife Lynn have three adult children who work in the investment management, technology, and consumer products industries. He enjoys golf, hiking, art, and international travel.

Paul Doscher

Paul Doscher

Paul’s career spans 40+ years focused on technology, working at large software providers (i.e. Oracle, VMWare) as well as multiple venture backed startups. In that time he has risen from account manager to Chief Executive Officer. His experience spans multiple technology disciplines including applications, databases, virtualization, API’s, enterprise search, and security. In addition to gaining experience in various technology disciplines, he has also worked for or run three companies based in France and has extensive international business and travel experience.

For the past 15 years, as CEO of five different venture backed startup software companies, Paul was successful in turning around these companies and building them into successful market leaders with financially secure exits for the investors and founders.

Paul completed a degree in mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology using an ROTC scholarship followed by service in the United States Marine Corps. In addition to being an Executive Connections mentor at ASU, Paul is also a Discover Volunteer for Arizona Make-a-Wish Foundation and a Board Member for 3Strands, a California based nonprofit focused on the eradication of human trafficking.

Jolean Fleck

Jolean Fleck

Jolean Fleck, senior vice president of people and organizational development, joined Delta Dental of Arizona in 2019. In this role, she works to shape the company's culture and create an enriching experience for employees, because she believes that the workplace should make you a better person, not just a better employee. With a focus on building a strong, high-performing team, Fleck is also responsible for leadership development and employer branding.

Prior to joining Delta Dental of Arizona, Fleck was the chief talent officer and human resources director for the Town of Gilbert, Arizona. As an experienced talent manager, she has spent more than 25 years delivering HR solutions across diverse industries that align with business strategy and improve the employee experience.

Fleck has an undergraduate degree in business administration with a human resources concentration from Austin Peay State University and a master's degree in business from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Fleck holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources {SPHR) certification and a Society of Human Resources Senior Certified Professional {SH RM-SCP) designation. In addition, Fleck is a member of the board of directors of Save the Family, an organization that works to end family homelessness in the valley.

I am an ASU MBA and Mom/Stepmom of 4. I love to travel. I grew up in Tennessee, so I love to spend time outdoors fishing or hiking. I have a French bulldog named "Little Mo."

Bruce Gilmore

Bruce Gilmore

As Director of Supply Chain Management for Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Bruce is responsible for supply chain leadership for Mayo Clinic’s U.S. Southwest region including the development of strategies, operations, and implementation of key initiatives. Bruce is also a Professor of Practice in the Department of Supply Chain Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Prior to his role at Mayo Clinic, Bruce served as a Director in Intel Corporation’s Global Supply Management organization, where he had responsibility for direct materials annual global spends of >$1B. The supply network spanned Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, and China supporting Intel’s assembly/test factories in Asia and in Arizona. Bruce has a broad range of experience including procurement, materials management, service management, logistics, and transportation in a global, high-technology environment. Over his career with Intel, Bruce had extensive experience with leading global teams of employees and suppliers to achieve outstanding results across Europe, Asia, and the United States.

As a leader, Bruce developed several high-performance management teams to deliver leading-edge supply chain solutions for Intel. He has a demonstrated ability to orchestrate cross-functional resources across the organization to ensure effective deployment of high-leverage programs contributing directly to the bottom line. He is also an outstanding communicator with the proven ability to influence at the highest levels internally and external to the company.

Bruce earned a BS in Business Administration/Purchasing – Arizona State University, and an MBA from the University of Arizona. He is a veteran who served in the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserve. Bruce and his family live in Arizona where they enjoy volunteering at their church, hiking, and enjoying the benefits of living in Arizona.

David Greenberg

David Greenberg

As a marketing executive or consultant, David Greenberg has had the pleasure of growing sales and profit for some of the best-known restaurants, consumer packaged goods and hotel companies in the world -- Bristol Myers Squibb, Mondelez, Henkel, Wendy’s, Burger King, Jack in the Box, Bob Evans, Best Western Hotels, and many more. He has ideated and launched new products and brands that have delivered over $10 billion in sales, most notably Wendy’s Baconator.

Having worked for startups and private companies, he takes great pleasure in developing and executing marketing strategies to grow “underdog” brands in categories dominated by established powerhouses. He has greatly enjoyed embracing the digital revolution in marketing over the past 5 years, delivering strong restaurant sales and profit turnarounds at Huddle House, Fuddruckers and Luby’s.

David believes that there is no “one size fits all” approach to leading and growing a business. He has taken the same approach in mentoring Full-time MBA students at W.P. Carey since 2015. He understands that every student is unique and has a different set of wants and needs, which he serves to meet.

David has a Master of Management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in Philosophy from Haverford College. He enjoys hiking, golf, playing guitar and attending concerts, but most importantly he loves traveling with his wife Barbara to visit their daughters in Perth, Australia and Brooklyn, NY.

Ben Greer

Ben Greer

For the last 40 years Ben has worked in many positions in the insurance business. While working to obtain a degree in Insurance from ASU, Ben worked as an insurance broker. Following graduation, and a two-year stint working for a large insurance company, Ben concluded that being an insurance broker was the right path for him. After 10 years of being coached by strong mentors, learning the necessary skills, and building a large “book” of clients, Ben and a fabulous business partner joined with solid financial partners to start an insurance brokerage. Ben is unsure if he ever really slept for the first three years of building the business. The business grew very quickly. It became clear that to build it further, people needed to be hired and trained to sell. Ben’s job evolved into holding old clients and building new salespeople. As Ben mentored the “green” salespeople, their skills rapidly grew and thus, the business flourished. Many of the salespeople Ben trained during those years are now owners of their own brokerage businesses, competitors, and close friends.

In 2014 the business was sold to USI, one of the largest insurance brokerages in the world. Ben became the executive in charge of USI’s Arizona Commercial Property & Casualty Insurance operations – ultimately directly managing 26 salespeople and indirectly managing approximately 50 service people. In the last ten years under Ben’s leadership, USI’s Arizona commercial property and casualty business has grown ten times. The USI Arizona office has gone from one of USI’s smallest to one of its largest and most successful offices in the country. To realize this growth, Ben had to find, hire, and hold highly skilled technical personnel - professionals who at times possessed skills that he either didn’t have, or didn’t have yet. To retain these people, he diligently worked to build strong relationships. In most of these relationships Ben was the mentor; however, some of those hired were so highly skilled that they ultimately mentored Ben. Learning and growing from every professional relationship is a critical endeavor for Ben– always doing so with an attitude to understand, build and grow professionally.

When not spending time with his wife, kids, and friends relaxing, Ben loves golf, hiking, and exercise.

For many years Ben has served on the board of Crossroads, the largest not-for-profit treatment organization in Arizona for those with drug and or alcohol addiction. Ben currently serves as the Vice Chairman and greatly enjoys working to help forward the critical work this organization does in Arizona.

Learning is just a part of Ben’s DNA. He believes virtually everything is interesting if a person gets deep enough into it. Ben diligently works to understand viewpoints and perspectives of others without judgment to gain understanding even when he disagrees with a person’s position.

Briand Greer

Briand Greer

Briand is a seasoned executive and dynamic leader with extensive global business management experience. Growing up in the US, Europe and Asia, traveling worldwide for 25 years and living in Asia for the past 8 years, Briand deeply understands how to embrace, understand and flourish both personally and professionally cross-culturally. He is a respected speaker and media expert focusing on how US multi-national companies can bridge the east-west gap for long term success through emotionally intelligent leadership with a global mindset and strong cultural competency.

As ASEAN President, Briand established and led Honeywell’s broad portfolio of businesses across Southeast Asia in alignment with global leadership and Honeywell’s strategic imperative to transform into a software industrial fully embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Honeywell’s four Strategic Business Groups (SBGs) Aerospace & Transportation, Performance Materials & Technologies, Home & Building Technologies, and Safety & Productivity Solutions supply leading-edge technologies, products, software, services, and solutions across a wide range of industries and markets including aviation, airports, automotive, oil and gas, petrochemical, production process controls, refrigerants, building and home safety & security systems, industrial safety, and business mobility and productivity.

Briand previously served as President, Aerospace Asia-Pacific based in Shanghai, China and was responsible for all aspects of the business across the region. He has more than 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry as a senior leader in both the commercial and defense businesses. Before joining Honeywell in 2002, Briand was co-founder and President of Aerospace Hardware Exchange (AHX), the world’s first online trading marketplace for aerospace commodities. Prior to that, he held various leadership positions at Fairchild Fasteners Inc. and UNC Inc.

As an officer in the U.S. Navy, Briand was a Naval Flight Officer with VS-29 aboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), a Naval Science professor at Duke University, and a Commander in the Naval Reserve.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Affairs from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, and an MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. His academic experience includes graduate level management studies at Harvard University and the University of Tennessee.

Getting to know the executive mentors was an invaluable part of my W. P. Carey MBA experience. They all gave so much of their time to coach us, sharing decades of their business and leadership knowledge. My classmates and I richly benefited from their generosity and wisdom. As I progress through my career, armed with the resources the mentors shared, I hope to pay it forward by keeping doors open for those behind me and sharing my own learnings with the next generation of business leaders.

Chikezie Anachu (W. P. Carey Full-time MBA)

Chikezie Anachu
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