Sheetz Chair Next 'Executive Insights' Guest
Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host Smeal alumnus Stephen Sheetz '69, chair of Sheetz, Inc., on Oct. 19 as part of the college's guest speaker series, Leadership In Focus: Executive Insights.
Sheetz Chair Next 'Executive Insights' Guest
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (October 11, 2007) – Penn State's Smeal College of Business will host Smeal alumnus Stephen Sheetz '69, chair of Sheetz, Inc., on Oct. 19 as part of the college's guest speaker series, Leadership In Focus: Executive Insights.
Sheetz will join Smeal Dean James Thomas for an on-stage conversation at 11:15 a.m. in the Business Building's Struthers Auditorium, during which Thomas will pose questions submitted by students and faculty in the audience. The event is open to all Smeal students, faculty, and staff.
Sheetz, Inc., one of the largest family owned and operated convenience store chains in the country, currently operates 337 stores in six states and employs more than 11,000 people. With 2006 revenues exceeding $3.5 billion, the chain ranks No. 79 on the 2006 Forbes list of top private U.S. companies.
As a teenager, Sheetz began working in his brother Bob's first Sheetz store in 1960. Upon graduation from Smeal in 1969, he became supervisor and director of operations for the four Sheetz stores in operation. He has served in the management of the Sheetz organization ever since. He served as president from 1984 to 1995 and, on Oct. 1, 1995, transitioned to his current role as chair.
In addition to his bachelor's degree from Smeal, Sheetz is a graduate of the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard University. He is a past member of Penn State's Board of Trustees and currently sits on Smeal's Board of Visitors. In 1999, the Penn State Alumni Association honored Sheetz with its Alumni Fellow Award, the Alumni Association's most prestigious award.
Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights, an initiative started in the 2006-2007 academic year, is designed to complement the Smeal educational experience by bringing high-profile business leaders to the college to connect with students, faculty, and administrators to share some of their experiences in leadership.
Smeal alumna Julie McHugh '86, company group chairman of Global Virology Business for Johnson & Johnson, was the college’s guest on Sept. 28. The fall slate of speakers wraps up on Nov. 2 with James Clifton, chairman and chief executive officer of The Gallup Organization.
The speaker series will continue in the spring 2008 semester with guests including Robert Pasterick, vice president and chief financial officer of commercial airplanes for Boeing, and Smeal alumnus James Stengel '83 M.B.A., global marketing officer for Procter & Gamble.
Previous Executive Insights guests include Art Rooney II, president of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and James Turley, chairman and chief executive officer of Ernst & Young.
For more information on the Executive Insights series, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/about/lecture/execin.html.
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.
