Keynote Speakers
Jeffrey Stamp
Assistant Professor and Chair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, N.D.
Most who attend the seminar will meet Jeffrey Stamp for the first time. Most may already have enjoyed one of his products, though.
Early in his corporate career, Jeffrey Stamp served as the driving force behind “Baked Lays,” a snack food produced by Frito-Lay. He was instrumental in the creative process and later served as brand manager for the new food product, which garnered $230 million in sales during its first year on the market.
Stamp has since established a business in which he serves as a master brand innovator for consumer products and technology offerings. For six years, he also served as Chief Trained Brain & Vice President of Technology for Richard Saunders International’s Eureka! Ranch, a top new product and service creativity think tank.
Stamp, who is a frequently sought speaker, has co-authored four books on creativity and marketing topics.
Stamp is well known for his enthusiastic and high-energy presentations, and recently received the 2008 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education Award given by the Action Foundation.
Provost's Lecture
Jeffry Timmons
Babson College
Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Babson Park, Mass.
As a graduate student at Harvard in 1971, Jeffry Timmons was the first to use the word entrepreneurial in his dissertation title, "Entrepreneurial and Leadership Development in an Inner City Ghetto and a Rural Depressed Area.”
The dissertation later served as the basis for six articles in the Harvard Business Review, and helped to launch his career.
Timmons has focused his career on teaching entrepreneurship, new ventures, entrepreneurial finance and venture capital. At one time, he held simultaneous professorships at Babson College and the Harvard Business School.
Inc. Magazine has called him “The Johnny Appleseed of Entrepreneurship Education.”
He served as a charter board member of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (in Kansas City) in developing a implementing their mission and strategy. Timmons also is the creator and dean of the faculty emeritus for the Kauffman Fellows Program.
Timmons also has provided leadership in developing teaching initiatives to assist Native Americans seeking economic self-determination and community development, and, in 2006, was appointed Chair of the International Academic Steering Committee for National Entrepreneurship Research Center in the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Timmons authored New Venture Creation, the leading textbook on venture creation, and recently co-authored Business Plans That Work (2004) and How to Raise Capital: Techniques and Strategies for Financing and Valuing Your Small Business (2005) with Stephen Spinelli and Andrew Zacharakis.
In addition to being a teacher of entrepreneurship, he is an investor, director and advisor in private companies and investment funds, and has served as a trustee at Colgate University, his alma mater.
Other presenters
M. Duane Nellis is Senior Vice President and Provost, Kansas State University.
David Dreiling is founder and owner of GTM Sportswear in Manhattan, Kan., which sells customized imprinted sportswear to athletic teams, booster clubs, cheer and gymnastic squads and other related markets in the U. S. and abroad. In August 2007, Inc. Magazine named GTM on its inaugural Inc. 5000 list celebrating one of the countries fastest growing private companies in America. Also in 2007, Mr. Dreiling was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for the Central Midwest Region for Consumer Products.
Cy Moyer from Phillipsburg, Kan. is a farmer, businessman, and advocate for community development. Moyer is active with Discover Phillips County, a community development effort supporting a variety of activities that range from community cleanups to attracting new residents – and businesses. He also serves on the Huck Boyd Foundation and Institute boards and is a trustee on the Dane G. Hansen Board.
David Procter is Director of the Kansas State University Center for Engagement and Community Development.
Vincent Amanor-Boadu is Professor of Agribusiness in the Department of Agriculture Economics in the College of Agriculture, Kansas State University.
Stephen A. Dyer is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering, Kansas State University.
Sue Maes is the Interim Dean of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.
Virginia Moxley is Dean of the College of Human Ecology, Kansas State University.
Fred Cholick is Dean of the College of Agriculture, Kansas State University, and Director, K-State Research and Extension.
Shelly Buhler, from Rossville, Kan., is a community volunteer and current chairwoman of the Shawnee County Commission.
Jim Davis, from Hutchinson, Kan., is representing the Reno County 2020 Growth Coalition, Inc., which has developed a 70-point plan to build community in an area that faces a potential decline in population and opportunities.
Carmen Stauth, Greensburg, Kan., is a K-State Research and Extension agent in Kiowa County, who served as a spokesperson for the county following the tornado.
Kim Gamble, Greensburg, Kan., is a community volunteer, business owner, farm wife and mother, and volunteer with the Kiowa County Business Redevelopment Group.
Darin Headrick, Greensburg, Kan., is the Superintendent, USD 422, and also is active in community development, planning and re-building process.
Ron Wilson, Director, Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development, which is based at Kansas State University.