Jim’s academic experience includes several years as assistant professor of marketing with the Indiana University School of Business and an appointment as visiting professor of marketing at the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He was also invited to serve as marketing instructor in the CIMBA international study program in Italy. He is currently enjoying travel, family life and working with non-profit organizations devoted to hunger abatement.
Mark is a global procurement manager at Hallmark Cards, Inc., supporting its IT and marketing divisions. He has worked at Hallmark since 1987. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
Mark has served on other boards including the Institute of Supply Management–Kansas City, the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City, and the advisory board for the Society of St. Andrew’s western headquarters.
She was the founding director of Kansas City Harvest, one of the first food-rescue programs in the United States. As the founding executive director of Foodchain–The National Food-Rescue Network, she raised millions of dollars for member programs, and she helped facilitate one of the nation’s largest nonprofit mergers between Foodchain and America’s Second Harvest (now Feeding America).
Ms. Martin formerly served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she taught freshman and sophomore writing courses for seven years.
She holds B.A. degrees in history and English and an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
