UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. –– The Penn State Smeal College of Business Tarriff Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility has announced the addition of three members to its advisory board.
Renee DeMay, Curtis Fenton and Steve Mentzer have accepted invitations to join the board for three-year terms. The new members will attend the next meeting of the group on March 26.
The addition of the three Penn State alumni brings the total number of advisory board members to 11, in addition to two emeritus members.
“I welcome the newest members of the advisory board and congratulate them on their nominations,” said Frederik Wenzel, the chairman of the Tarriff advisory board. “I’m confident that their diverse backgrounds and significant professional achievements will further strengthen the board and our mission to enhance the focus on ethics throughout the university.”
DeMay currently serves as the chief of staff to the CEO at Procore, a leading global provider of construction management software. She is a seasoned global leader with more than 30 years of experience in go-to-market strategy, operational excellence and business transformation.
Prior to joining Procore, DeMay spent more than 11 years in senior leadership roles at Ansys, a global leader in engineering simulation software. She holds a bachelor’s in business logistics from Penn State.
Fenton is the strategy execution leader for assurance services at RSM U.S. LLP. He provides leadership for strategic projects to support the assurance line of business and the National Professional Standards Group (NPSG).
Prior to joining RSM, Fenton was a senior audit associate for a middle market public accounting firm. He graduated from Penn State with a degree in accounting.
Mentzer is the retired president and CEO of Range Generation Next, a joint venture of Raytheon and General Dynamics. Now in retirement, Mentzer is a mentor for proteges in business and local organizations. He has been active with Smeal as a student mentor and a member of the Alumni Mentoring Committee.
Before his role as CEO of RGNext, Mentzer spent 15 of his 39 years with Raytheon leading a variety of product line and mission area finance organizations as CFO responsible for all program performance, profit and loss and finance functions. He earned a bachelor’s in finance from Penn State.
More information about the Tarriff Center and its advisory board can be found online.