Smeal CIO Elected Chair Of National Business School Technology Group
Ginger Breon, chief information officer at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been elected chair of the Technology in Business Schools (TBS) Roundtable, an affinity group of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) dedicated to advancing business school information technology.
Smeal CIO Elected Chair Of National Business School Technology Group
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (July 31, 2008) – Ginger Breon, chief information officer at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been elected chair of the Technology in Business Schools (TBS) Roundtable, an affinity group of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) dedicated to advancing business school information technology.
Breon has served on the organization's board for two years and will serve as chair for the 2008-2009 academic year.
The TBS Roundtable is a group of technology leaders from more than 90 of the leading public and private business schools in the United States, Canada, and Europe. By fostering collaboration among the technology leadership at its member schools, the organization seeks to improve the overall quality of the schools’ technology efforts, share best-practices knowledge and experiences, and increase collaboration among business school technology leaders.
Breon has been on the Smeal staff since 1993, serving in various positions of increasing responsibility until being named CIO in 2007. She is a member of the college's strategic planning committee, teaches first-year undergraduates in Smeal's freshman seminar, and managed the development and construction of the college's $68 million Business Building. She holds a bachelor's degree and an M.B.A. from Penn State.
As CIO, Breon leads the efforts of the college's Research, Instruction, and Information Technology (RIIT) Group. The RIIT Group oversees the research, design, development, and implementation of IT at Smeal in support of research, instruction, and service.
The RIIT Group's goals are to provide transparent technology infrastructure, to invest in technologies that support the college's goals, to develop partnerships to enhance IT within the college, to encourage the adoption of new technologies, to develop measurements to evaluate progress, to create a culture that encourages re-invention, and to leverage advisory boards' knowledge and resources.
For more information on Smeal's RIIT Group, visit riit.smeal.psu.edu. For more information on the TBS Roundtable, visit www.tbsroundtable.org.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
