Lunch With A Leader
The Winston Center offers opportunities for students to meet with leaders in close quarters for lunch and informal conversation several times each year. An effort is made to invite student participants who have a demonstrated interest that is related to the leader’s area of expertise.
Upcoming Lunch with a Leader Programs
Randy Seidl
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking – Americas, Hewlett-Packard Company
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Fulton Honors Library, 12:00PM – 1:30PM
By invitation only
Randy Seidl is senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking organization in the Americas at HP, where he is responsible for sales and operations.
Seidl brings more than 25 years of global sales and executive management experience to HP, part of a career that includes growing and scaling both emerging and Fortune 500 companies.
Seidl joined HP from Sun Microsystems, where he most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of North America. While at Sun, he also served as vice president and general manager for Financial Services sales, where he transformed his team from the worst in the United States to the No. 1 global selling unit in fiscal year 2008.
Prior to Sun, Seidl was chief executive officer and a board member at Permabit, co-founder and executive vice president at GiantLoop, and chairman and chief executive officer of Workgroup Solutions. He began his career at EMC in 1985 as the 33rd employee, and was instrumental in EMC’s global growth.
A graduate of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Seidl serves on Boston College’s Board of Trustees as a Trustee Associate and leads various committees. He also serves on the Board of Massachusetts Mentoring Partnership.
Seidl has attended executive education programs at Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT. He is a member of the CEO Club of Boston, Brae Burn Country Club and the World Presidents’ Organization. He is a frequent presenter to leadership groups and students, focusing on the topics of sales, performance management, coaching and personal life goals.
Sam Kennedy
President, Fenway Sports Group
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Fulton Honors Library, 12:00PM – 1:30PM
By invitation only
Sam Kennedy serves as President of Fenway Sports Group. Previously, he served as the Executive Vice President of Fenway Sports Group (formerly New England Sports Enterprises, LLC) and as its Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Since he joined the Red Sox, he and his staff have increased sponsorship revenue by more than 250 percent, premium licensing revenue by 160 percent and the season ticket base by 30 percent. Addittionally, FSG, under Kennedy’s guidance, added several clients, including Athletes’ Performance and English Premier League team Fulham FC. Kennedy was also involved in important early work on former FSG president Mike Dee’s new stadium naming-rights deal in Florida with Sun Life Financial, and was a key liaison with the NHL for the wildly successful Winter Classic at Fenway Park.
Past Lunch with a Leader Programs
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Joe Petrowksi
Gulf-Cumberland Group, CEO
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
David Wajsgras
Senior Vice President and CFO, Raytheon
Friday, March 25, 2011
Phil Schiller
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Apple
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Greg Brown
President and CEO, Motorola
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Joe Essa
President, Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
D. Scott Brown
President & COO, Sage Products, Inc.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Tom Sebok
President & CEO, Young & Rubicam North America
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Fr. William P. Leahy, SJ
University President
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Jim Gibbons
President and CEO, Goodwill Industries International, Inc.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Al Kelly
President and Head of Global Consumer Group, American Express Company
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Michael Dupee '90
Vice President for Corporate Social Responsibility, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Christine M. Reynolds '80
President and COO, Fidelity Pricing and Cash Management Services Group
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Mike White '74
Vice Chairman, PepsiCo, CEO, PepsiCo International
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Fr. William P. Leahy, SJ
University President
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Jack Littman-Quinn '77
President and CEO, MarketBurst, LLC
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Michael K. Durkin '77
President and Chief Executive Officer, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
Friday, April 25, 2008
Benaree Wiley
Principal, The Wiley Group, Former President and CEO, The Partnership, Inc.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Michael Millette, CGSOM '94
Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions-Structured Finance, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Friday, March 28, 2008
Kevin Campbell, CSOM '82
Group Chief Executive for Outsourcing at Accenture
Friday, November 16, 2007
Patricia Hillman
Executive Vice President, Fidelity Strategic Investments
Friday, November 2, 2007
Robert Amen '71
President and CEO, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Fr. William P. Leahy, SJ.
University President
