The external advisory board is a highly involved group of senior level executives who serve as the voice of industry to guide development of program curriculum and networking for job opportunities. The board is lead by an executive committee which is elected by the board. Over 30 board members come to campus twice a year to meet with faculty and students. They also sponsor workshops, guest lecturing in classes, and offer site-visits to their companies. Each student is assigned two mentors within the External Advisory Board to assist in their career development.
The A.C. Nielsen Center’s Executive Committee was established with the creation of the Center in 1990. The first chair of the Executive Committee was Bob Drane. Bob Drane has been an active member of the board and engaged mentor to A.C. Nielsen Center students for over 20 years. Executive Committee members are nominated and elected by their fellow board members each spring and at each fall board meeting, the torch is passed to the new Committee Chair. This fall, Scott Bishop became the Executive Committee Chair and Merrill Dubrow, who was elected to the committee in March, attended his first Executive Committee Meeting.