Val Apanovich is IT director at College Misericordia in Dallas, Pa. A graduate of King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he has more than 26 years of IT experience in the telecommunications sector and higher education.

Stanton Gatewood is chief information security officer at the University of Georgia in Athens and a previous contributor to Ed Tech: Focus on Higher Education. (See “Strategy Setting” in the August/September 2006 issue.)

Walter T. Geer is a senior consultant with The Cambridge Academic Group in Boston, specializing in IT strategic planning, business process re-engineering and technical leadership training. Since 1995, he has been involved in higher education and served in senior administrative IT roles at the State University of New York and Harvard University.

Erin Griffin is vice president of information technology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She has 22 years of experience in the management of educational and administrative technology. Her responsibilities at Loyola Marymount include strategic, fiscal and operational oversight of IT.

Marc Hoit is interim CIO and a professor in the civil and coastal engineering department of the University of Florida at Gainesville. Previously, he held numerous administrative positions at UF, including director of student PeopleSoft implementation and associate dean for academic affairs administration.

Jennifer Benson Jones is director of academic retention at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In this capacity, she is responsible for managing retention programs and research, with a specific focus on the first-year experience.

David Kluth is vice president of university services at Concordia University in Austin, Texas. He is also an associate professor of communications and teaches media law and communication technology.

Brian Rust leads the marketing communications team for the Division of Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a top-tier research institution with more than 40,000 students and 15,000 faculty and staff — all of whom use DoIT services.