Three Oklahoma executives to share with students during Spears School’s CEO Day
Monday, April 1, 2013
Executives from three successful Oklahoma businesses will be sharing with Oklahoma
State University students during CEO Day from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. April 16 in Click
Hall at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center.
A forum entitled “Vision and Strategy: A CEO’s Perspective,” will feature Sean Kouplen, President and CEO, Regent Bank; David Nimmo, President and CEO, Chickasaw Nation Industries, and Dana Weber, President, CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board, Webco Industries.
CEO Day is hosted by OSU’s Spears School of Business to bring successful business people to the Stillwater campus so students have opportunities to discover the challenges and issues that business leaders face, understand how CEOs chart their career paths, discover characteristics they seek in managers, interact with successful executives, and learn about their decision processes and leadership styles.
“We believe it’s important for our students to hear from successful CEOs like Sean Kouplen, David Nimmo and Dana Weber, and we appreciate each of them sharing their insight and knowledge with the Spears School students,” said Larry Crosby, dean of the Spears School of Business. “CEO Day is important because our students recognize the value of learning from experienced and successful people.”
Sean Kouplen is the President and CEO of Regent Bank in Tulsa, an owner of multiple small businesses and a nationally recognized author and speaker. In 2008, he fulfilled a lifelong dream of raising $15.5 million in capital and leading an investor group that purchased 110-year-old Regent Bank in Nowata, Okla. Since that time, the bank has expanded to Tulsa and Oklahoma City, almost tripling in size from $72 million to nearly $200 million.
He was recently named one of The Journal Record’s most Admired Oklahoma CEOs, the 2011 Oklahoma Small Business Financial Services Champion and was named to Oklahoma Magazine and Tulsa Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40. He authored a self-help book, “Out of the Blocks,” in 2008 and recently completed the manuscript for his second book, “The Priority Promise,” which is expected to hit the market around May 1.
Kouplen received his bachelor’s and MBA degrees from OSU, and his graduate banking degree from the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado.
He has been married to Angela for 14 years, and they have three children (Emory, 9, Kennedy, 6, and Finley, 3).
David Nimmo is the President and CEO of Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc., which is wholly owned by the Chickasaw Nation, the holding company which has benefited from his 22-year tenure as a general counsel and business advisor to the tribe. As the principle architect of the organization’s structure, he has contributed significantly to the tribe’s rapid growth.
His business acumen is born of his education, the operation of his own business and his service as a director of a regional bank and its holding company. Prior to serving the Chickasaw Nation, Nimmo served as a judge for the 22nd Judicial District in Oklahoma. He was entrusted with this role by the voters of the district, and was viewed as a fair and thoughtful jurist. His experience on the bench and as a private practitioner honed his analytical skills and provides the organization with a leader who is not afraid to make decisions, and who uses facts, not emotion, to assure the best results
Nimmo has been married for 40 years to Carolyn Nimmo. They have two adult sons, Michael Nimmo, an attorney in Denver, and Matthew Nimmo, a board certified equine surgeon practicing in southern Oklahoma.
Dana Weber is President, CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board for Webco Industries in Sand Springs, Okla. She began her full-time career at Webco in 1977 and has held positions in inventory management and cost accounting, cash and credit management, financial accounting, production planning, and systems design and implementation.
She was appointed Webco’s Chief Financial Officer in 1986, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in 1989, President in 1995, and President and Chief Executive Officer in 2011.
Weber was honored as The Journal Record’s 2011 Woman of the Year. Last spring, she was honored as the Tulsa Area Alumnae Panhellenic 2011 Woman of the Year for Chi Omega. She is active in both the Tulsa Chamber Board (chair of the Education Committee) and the Oklahoma State Chamber Board (chair of the Prosperity Project since 2010).
Weber earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting (1977) and a Juris Doctorate degree (1983), both from the University of Tulsa, a Professional Masters Degree from Harvard Business School in 1986, and subsequently studied industrial engineering at OSU.