Patrick Zenner, an alumnus, MBA’75 (Ruth) and a member of the Board of Trustees since 1995, has been named the board’s chair. He is joined on the board by new members John Bailye, founder, chairman and CEO of Dendrite International, Inc.; and Thomas Mac Mahon, chairman, president and CEO of Laboratory Corporation of American Holdings, Burlington, N.C., who have been elected for three-year terms. Wayne Hallard, BS’80 (Metro), MBA’84 (Metro), as president of the University Alumni Association Board of Governors, also takes a seat on the Board of Trustees.

Board of Trustees Chair Patrick Zenner, right, discusses strategies with President J. Michael Adams.

President J. Michael Adams said, “Pat Zenner combines expertise in institutional organization and management with a passionate belief in the importance of education for the individual student and the greater community. Fairleigh Dickinson University is indeed fortunate to have Pat in a leadership role.”

A 32-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, Zenner retired in 2001 as president and chief executive officer of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., North America, and a member of its global Pharmaceutical Executive Committee. He spent his entire career at Roche, having joined the company as a sales representative in 1969.

Zenner received his MBA in pharmaceutical-chemical studies from FDU and has been honored for his extraordinary achievements with The PINNACLE Award, one of the highest honors the University bestows on its alumni.

Zenner relishes his role in higher education. He said, “Higher education is the key to opening up opportunities for people. And higher education has always been something that both my wife and I have devoted ourselves to. I am thrilled with the new vision for the University — to be the leader in global education — and the progress that is being made toward realizing that vision. To help make students cognizant of the global community in which they live and how they can best position themselves in that global community is a very exciting task.”

For more information see http://inside.fdu.edu/prpt/zenner.html.

A graduate of the University of New South Wales, John Bailye joined and later purchased Foresearch, a small market-research firm in his native Sydney, Australia. He focused on the pharmaceutical industry and spearheaded the firm’s entry into the international marketplace.

In 1986, he established Dendrite International, Inc. to pioneer the development of software applications for pharmaceutical sales force management. In 1987, he relocated Dendrite from Australia to New Jersey. The firm now includes more than 2,100 employees in offices in North and South America, Europe, the Pacific Rim and Asia — including Japan and China.

For three consecutive years NJBiz recognized Dendrite as one of the top 20 private companies in New Jersey. In 2002, Forbes magazine listed Dendrite among the 200 best small companies for investors.

For more information see http://inside.fdu.edu/prpt/bailye.html.

From left, new Board of Trustees Chair Patrick Zenner and new trustees John Bailye, Thomas Mac Mahon and Wayne Hallard.

Thomas Mac Mahon has been LabCorp’s chief executive officer since January 1997 and chairman since April 28, 1996. LabCorp is one of the world’s largest clinical laboratories, with revenues of approximately $3 billion and 24,000 employees.

Mac Mahon has had a long and diverse association with businesses in clinical laboratory testing and diagnostic technology and played a pioneering role in commercializing the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology. PCR is the Nobel Prize-winning technology that has enabled the rapid growth of molecular diagnostic testing for infectious disease, genetics and oncology and is now widely used in genomics and pharmacogenomics.

Prior to his appointment as LabCorp’s chief executive officer in 1997, Mac Mahon was senior vice president of Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. from 1993 to January 1997 and president of Roche Diagnostics Group and a member of the executive committee of Hoffmann-La Roche from 1988 to December 1996.

For more information see http://inside.fdu.edu/prpt/macmahon.html.

President Adams said, “In representing the 100,000 alumni of Fairleigh Dickinson, Wayne Hallard will be an important addition to the board. With two decades of experience in the finance department of Verizon and his deep knowledge of the University and impressive community involvement, he brings wide experience to this position.”

After distinguishing himself as a student, both academically and in campus service, he received his bachelor’s degree in economics and finance and his MBA in economics from FDU. Hallard has been a member of the University’s Alumni Association Board of Governors for six years and has taken a leadership role in the Alumni-in-Admissions Committee — participating in college nights at local high schools, making presentations to guidance counselors and meeting with students regarding scholarships. In addition, he has given his time to the Annual Fund Committee as co-chair and to the Career Management Center’s network nights. His wife, Deborah (Russo) Hallard, is also an FDU graduate, BA’73 (Metro).

For more information see http://inside.fdu.edu/prpt/hallard.html.

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