Judges

Below please find a listing of past judges for The Next CEO Competition.

Past Judges

William S. Demchak, Vice Chairman of PNC Financial Services

Demchack is vice chairman and head of Institutional Banking for The PNC Financial Services Group. He is responsible for PNC’s middle market and large corporate businesses, as well as capital markets, real estate finance, equity management, and leasing. Demchak also leads the company’s asset and liability management function. In addition, he was a director of BlackRock, Inc.

Before joining PNC in 2002, he served as the global head of Structured Finance and Credit Portfolio for JP Morgan Chase. Demchak also held key leadership roles at JP Morgan prior to its merger with the Chase Manhattan Corporation in 2000. He was actively involved in developing JP Morgan’s strategic agenda, and was a member of the company’s capital and credit risk committees. He was named head of PNC’s Institutional Banking in July 2005.

Demchak is a member of The Financial Services Roundtable and serves on the Regulatory Management Committee. He also serves on the board of directors of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and the Blue Mountain Credit Alternatives Ltd.

Demchack received a bachelor’s of science degree from Allegheny College and earned an MBA with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Michigan.

Andrew B. Seck:  PhD. Natural Resource Law & Policy (Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland). 

Seck is the business planning and support manager for Shell’s EP operations in the Americas. His team of planners and economists have the responsibility for developing the annual business plan for EP in the Americas (USA, Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, and Argentina); strategic cost leadership; capital approvals and allocation; and strategy & management support.  He also holds the role of vice president of corporate affairs for all Shell EP Companies in the US. Since August 2005, he has lead the company’s business continuity efforts post hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Prior to joining EPW, Seck worked for eight years in Russia where he held various positions for Shell in Moscow and for Sakhalin Energy in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Before Shell, he worked as a senior field engineer for Schlumberger International in various locations throughout South East Asia.

Kevin Darrington, Vice President Controller of Foot Locker, Inc

Darrington is the corporate vice president controller of Foot Locker, Inc. Mr. Darrington has an undergraduate bachelor’s of science degree in accounting from Indiana University, a MBA in Finance from Temple University, and has passed the CPA Examination in Ohio. Mr. Darrington oversees financial operations at Foot Locker, Inc. Prior positions held at Foot Locker were director of inventory, finance-payroll, asset management, banking, and retail controller inventory & AP, financial operations. Before coming to Foot Locker in 1998, he held several roles in finance, logistics, information services, and store operations at Boscov’s Department and Federated Department Stores. While at Foot Locker Inc., he has successfully implemented $25 MM worth of profit savings ideas.

Robert J Pasterick, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Boeing Commercial Airlines Group

Pasterick is senior vice president and chief financial officer for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and a member of the Boeing Executive Council. In this position, he is responsible for the overall financial management of Commercial Airplanes. In addition to the finance organizations, contracts and information systems also report to Pasterick.

Previously, Pasterick served as commercial airplanes vice president & controller. In this capacity, he was responsible for the group’s accounting, financial planning and reporting; pricing, estimating and cost management activities.

Previously, Pasterick served as vice president of financial planning & analysis for The Boeing Company. He joined Boeing through the company’s acquisition of the aerospace and defense units of Rockwell in December 1996.

Pasterick joined Rockwell in 1979 and progressed through a series of management positions in finance and material/subcontract management. Prior to the above positions, he was controller of the Tulsa division followed by director of business operations for Boeing Space and Communications Group.

Pasterick earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Business.

Tara L. Weiner, Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP

Weiner is the managing partner of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania office of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.

Weiner previously served as the national managing partner of the organizations consumer business industry practice. In her new role, Tara will lead Deloitte’s 1,000 employees in the greater Philadelphia area.

With over 28 years of proven experience, Tara has a distinguished record of service as a strategic adviser helping companies create measurable value and dealing with issues of importance to their business. Tara currently serves as an advisory or leadership partner to several of the Deloitte U.S Firms leading clients, wherein she leverages her SEC and regulatory expertise, in addition to an in-depth knowledge of the accounting standard-setting process.

Weiner, native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, received her bachelor’s of science degree in accounting from Penn State University. She also serves on the Boards of Directors of the United Way of Tri-State and Prep for Prep.

She is active with the United Way Cabinet, Select Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Franklin Institute, and the Chamber of Commerce.

Rick Bierly, Vice President of Finance for Centocor, Inc.

Bierly is vice president of finance for Centocor, Inc., a $3B biotechnology subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson based in Horsham, Pennsylvania. A State College, Pennsylvania native and 1977 graduate of Penn State's Smeal College of Business, he has worked nearly 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry with Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, and Glaxo-SmithKline. He began his financial management career in public accounting, following a Smeal internship at Ernst & Young, and is a certified public accountant.

Julie McHugh,Company Group Chairman, Virology

As Company Group Chairman, R&D and Commercial for the worldwide virology business at Johnson & Johnson, Julie McHugh has responsibility for a dynamic and growing area of the corporation’s pharmaceutical business. 

McHugh, a 20-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, came to Johnson & Johnson in 1999 with the acquisition of Centocor. Since July 2004, she served as president of Centocor, where she provided leadership to that company’s commercial operations and medical affairs functions, as well as many other critical business support and enabling functions.

McHugh joined Centocor in 1996 as director of marketing for the emerging Immunology Franchise. In that role, she was responsible for developing and implementing the worldwide commercialization plan for REMICADE®, a blockbuster product launched in 1998. She went on to lead the teams that launched that product in Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and assumed responsibility for in-line sales and marketing activities for the immunology business unit as immunology franchise vice president in 2000. 

Her role expanded in 2001, when she assumed global responsibility for lifecycle planning and market development for the REMICADE brand, forming the New Market Development Group at Centocor. In 2002, she led the creation of a new global biologics strategic marketing group, responsible for maximizing opportunities within the Centocor R&D portfolio. 

Prior to joining Centocor, McHugh led the marketing communications team at Astra-Merck for Prilosec® and held Product Management positions at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer and SmithKline Beecham.

McHugh holds a B.S. degree in finance from Penn State University and a M.B.A in International Management from St. Joseph's University. 

Dr. Judy Olian, Former Dean of the Smeal College of Business

Dr. Judy Olian became Dean of the Smeal College of Business and Professor of Management at The Pennsylvania State University in July 2000. During her tenure at the Smeal College, Dr. Olian led the faculty in comprehensive renewal of the MBA, PhD and Undergraduate Programs, the launch of the Trading Room, the e-Incubator Lab, and Auctions Market Lab. Under her leadership, student quality increased across all three programs, and there has been significant improvement in national and international rankings of the programs. She spearheaded the launch of the new Smeal Executive MBA in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and initiated an ambitious building campaign for a $68 million state-of-the-art home for Smeal College. She is the author of over fifty articles and book contributions, and writes a weekly news column on workplace issues. She ended her tenure with Smeal in 2005.

Kenneth M. Lusht, Professor of Business Administration and Zimmerman Endowed University Fellow

Lusht previously served as chairman of the Department of Insurance and Real Estate, as the Smeal College associate dean for research and director of doctoral and MS programs, as the academic program director for the Continuing Education Program in Real Estate, and as director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies. He is a fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute, and has served as a faculty associate of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and as a trustee of the Appraisal Foundation. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Economic Studies, and has been a visiting scholar at universities in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Turkey, and Finland. He has served on the Education Advisory Committee to the Pennsylvania Real Estate Commission.

Lusht is a past president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and he served two terms on that Association’s Board of Directors. He is on the editorial boards of four journals and has served on four others. Lusht has received three Excellence in Teaching Awards from the M.B.A. Student Association, and has been the College of Business nominee for two teaching awards at the University level. He teaches for various trade associations, and has made presentations to management and executive level classes in Australia, Hong Kong, Turkey, and Finland.

Lusht is widely published in both academic and professional journals and is the author of three texts. He has authored several seminars and courses for professional associations. His current research is focused on pricing mechanisms in property markets, and on the valuation impacts of land use regulations.

He consults with private and public sector organizations on a range of real estate valuation issues, including property tax assessments and appeals, and externalities associated with public improvements. Most recently, he has been involved in measuring the property value impacts of proximity to overhead electric power lines.

Miguel Martin, Philip Morris USA Vice President - North East Region Sales

Martin is the Philip Morris USA vice president of sales. In this position he is responsible for managing 550 sales professionals who call on and develop relationships with over 50,000 accounts. Previously, Martin served as senior director retail promotions at Philip Morris Headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. In this capacity, he was responsible for creating PM USA's execution plans for retail marketing programs.

Martin joined PM USA in 1993 and has progressed through a number of sales and marketing positions.

Martin earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Vermont.