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Fall Chaplin Tyler lectures at UD begin Oct. 15 |
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William Kupper Jr., publisher of Business Week magazine, will be the first speaker in the fall Chaplin Tyler Executive Leadership Lecture Series, at 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 15, in the Chaplin Tyler Atrium in Alfred Lerner Hall. The lecture series is presented by the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. Kupper’s talk is titled “Leadership & Teamwork in Today's Marketplace." Elizabeth A. Browning, founder and CEO of LLuminari, a health education company headquartered in Wilmington, will deliver the next lecture in the series at 3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 19, in the Chaplin Tyler Atrium in Alfred Lerner Hall. Browning’s talk is titled “Learning to Lead: Perspective from Elizabeth Browning.” Kupper spent 24 years at Time Inc., where he held a number of senior sales management positions, including advertising sales manager for Sports Illustrated, advertising director for Life magazine and international advertising director for Time. He also was publisher of Health magazine, part of Time Inc.’s Publishing Venture Group. Kupper joined Business Week in 1995 as the U.S. sales director and was promoted to associate publisher and worldwide sales director in 1998. He was named publisher of Business Week Group in 1999 and president in 2000. He is responsible for leading the continued expansion of the Business Week franchise including Business Week Online and Business Week Television. He also is in charge of worldwide advertising sales for the magazine’s North American and international editions, as well as circulation, sales development, and direct sales support, including research and account services. He serves on the executive committee of the board of directors for the Magazine Publisher’s Association and on the board of directors for the National Organization on Disability. Kupper started his career as a media planner at Dancer Fitzgerald Sample in 1969 after serving in the U.S. Army for two years. He spent 10 months in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Bronze Star and Air Medal with the First Cavalry. A graduate of Concordia Preparatory School in New York, Kupper holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Upsala College in New Jersey. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Jackie, and their two children. Lluminari develops original content, research and programming for leading corporations and consumers. The company’s mission is to advance knowledge and discussion on health from an evidence-based medicine perspective. Its corporate partners underwriting health education initiatives for consumers and employees include Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, PacifiCare, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Media partners include O, The Oprah Magazine, and Hearst. Before founding LLuminari, Browning was president of DuPont Consumer Health, a division of DuPont’s Nutrition & Health strategic business unit. During her 20-year career with DuPont, Browning held a variety of international business leadership positions in industries ranging from biotechnology to pharmaceuticals and textile fibers. Browning is internationally known for leading the globalization of the LYCRA brand and the DuPont’s entry into e-business. Browning is a past member of the Marketing Science Institute and is a member of the Forum for Executive Women in Philadelphia. She received a bachelor’s degree with a double major in journalism and English from Indiana University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. She lives in Wilmington with her husband and two adult sons. The lectures are free and open to the public. Those who would like to attend the lectures should call (302) 831-2221 by Friday, Oct. 8, for the Kupper lecture and by Friday, Nov. 12, for the Browning lecture. Contact: Martin Mbugua, (302) 831-8749, or e-mail [mbugua@udel.edu] |