Three distinguished alums to be inducted into OSU's Spears School Hall of Fame
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The Spears School of Business will recognize some of its most distinguished alumni at the annual Hall of Fame banquet on Nov. 16 at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center in Stillwater.
Three Oklahoma State University alumni will be inducted into the Spears School Hall of Fame and four others will be honored as Outstanding Young Alumni.
Roger Cagle, Joseph Eastin and Tiffany Sewell-Howard will be honored for their successful careers and contributions to OSU as the 2012 inductees into the Spears School Hall of Fame. The Outstanding Young Alumniaward recipients will be Sara Brown, Matt Jeffery, Daniel Roe and Taylor Shinn.
The annual Spears School Hall of Fame Banquet recognizes OSU graduates who have distinguished themselves in their professional careers, displayed effective leadership, made exemplary contributions to their communities and freely given meritorious service to others. Induction into the Hall of Fame is the highest honor the Spears School can bestow.
An Oklahoma City native, he joined Exxon USA upon graduating from OSU and quickly advanced before departing in 1979 to join Superior OilCompany, North America’s largest independent oil producer at the time. Cagle was a co-founder of Conquest Exploration in 1981, and became chief financial officer and vice president of finance before the company was acquired in 1991. He moved into independent financial and project consulting before becoming a founding member of SOCO International in 1997. He has been instrumental in driving the company to a dominant position that it currently enjoys in the independent oil and gas exploration and production industry.
Cagle earned his MBA in finance from OSU in 1975. He lives in London, England with his wife, Cynthia.
Prior to joining ISN, Eastin worked for Entergy Corporation, an integrated energy company headquartered in New Orleans. He has helped build ISNetworld into one of the world’s fastest growing, privately held companies in the United States. It has been named one of Inc. magazine’s 500 fastest growing, privately held companies for the past six years. ISN is a software and service company that manages and amalgamates performance, safety, and compliance data for oil and gas, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and other capital intensive organizations. They have more than 42,000 companies subscribed. Under Eastin’s leadership, ISN has grown from three employees in 2001 to more than 300 employees today. He currently serves as a board member for the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship and the Board of Governors for OSU.
Eastin earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from OSU in 1992. He is married with four children and is currently living in Dallas.
Since becoming employed at CMW in 2000, she has held the positions of chief operating officer, director of information technology, and e-marketing manager. Before joining CMW, she served on the Board of Directors at CMW for four years while employed as marketing director at PRIMEDIA, Inc., a New York-based publishing company. Sewell-Howard has started several companies including a small advertising agency, an industrial waste recycling company, and an internet marketing and web development company. She has been active in her industry by serving in executive leadership positions for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and Association of Equipment Distributors (AED). She has served on the OSU MBA Advisory Council and the Riata Center Advisory Board.
Sewell-Howard earned both her bachelor’s degree in 1985 and eventually her MBA from OSU. She lives in Edmond, Okla., with her husband, Dan Howard, who practices law in Oklahoma City, and their 2-year-old twins, Hayden and Morgan.
In 2001, the Outstanding Young Alumni award was established to recognize alumni who have provided significant service and achievement early in their professional careers.
Sara Brown, a 2005 Spears School graduate, is a contract negotiator for Air Force Research Laboratory.
Matt Jeffery, who graduated in 2003, is a contracting officer for the Department of Energy.
Daniel Roe, a 1999 graduate, is vice president of global client operations and support for Openlink.
Taylor Shinn, who graduated in 2007, is senior director of corporate development for Chesapeake Energy Corp.
The Hall of Fame event begins with a 6:30 p.m. reception followed by the dinner at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Mary Wanger in the Dean’s office at 405-744-5064 or by email at mary.wanger@okstate.edu