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New board leaders, members in place
BRANNAN
WILSON
MCDANIEL
Mississippi State University is fortunate to have dedicated alumni and friends with a willingness to help guide its fundraising activities. For nearly six decades, the MSU Foundation has been assisting the university in attracting support from private sources. In 2020, an impressive slate of loyal alumni are serving as leaders of the 48-seat board while 10 other alumni are beginning new terms as members. Incoming officers with new one-year terms that began Jan. 1 include three alumni returning to offices they initially held in 2019. They are: D. Hines Brannan of Atlanta, Georgia, as board chair; Anthony L. Wilson of Gulfport as vice-chair; and Mike M. McDaniel of Houston, Texas, as treasurer. A Mississippi native of Woodville, Brannan has loyally been a member of the MSU Foundation board for more than a decade, earlier serving as vice president for three terms and as treasurer for three terms. At MSU, he also was a founding member of the advisory board for the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering and an executive-in-residence for the college. He earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering in 1970 and an MBA the following year, both from MSU. He is a retired managing director of Accenture, one of the world’s largest management consulting firms. Fellow Mississippi native Wilson hails from D’Iberville. He earned his electrical engineering degree in 1987 from MSU and later an MBA from the University of Southern Mississippi. He currently serves as chairman, president, and CEO of Mississippi Power Company. Earlier he was executive vice president of customer service and operations for Georgia Power. McDaniel, who holds a 1979 bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from MSU, is a Mississippi native of Cleveland. He is currently the president of Saber Power Services LLC, having earlier been CEO of M3 Resources LLC. McDaniel also has previously served as a board member. Rounding out the remaining board officers are MSU personnel. John P. Rush, vice president for development and alumni, is the board’s president and CEO; Janet H. Carraway, executive director of finance, is chief financial officer; and Jack McCarty, executive director of development, serves as board secretary. All are proud MSU graduates.
New members beginning inaugural three-year terms in 2020 are: —George H. Bishop of Sealy, Texas. A 1958 petroleum geology graduate, Bishop is founder and president of GeoSouthern Energy
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