Samuels, Green named among Nashville's top leaders
Kim Chaudoin | 615.966.6494 |
Members of Lipscomb University’s executive leadership team have once again been named among the best in their fields in the city.
Deby K. Samuels, vice president of university communication and marketing, and Michael C. Green, vice president and chief information officer, were both recognized this fall as among the best in their fields in education and nonprofit by the Nashville Business Journal.
Samuels received a 2014 Chief Marketing Officer Award from the Nashville Business Journal. Nominations for the awards were solicited from the Nashville business community. Nominees were reviewed by a panel of outside judges. Thirteen winners were rated the highest among those in their profession, according to Allison Nash, Nashville Business Journal associate editor.
“Honors like this are very much appreciated and valued,” Samuels said. “Middle Tennessee has grown to become home to so many competent and exceptionally capable marketing professionals who use their skills every day to successfully market goods, services and ideas around town and around the globe. I am grateful to be selected out of what I consider to be a very competitive, very august group.”
This is the latest award for Samuels who was named Distinguished Marketer of the Year by the Nashville Chapter of the American Marketing Association in 2011. A 40-year marketing veteran, Samuels joined the Lipscomb team in 2009. Prior to joining Lipscomb’s administrative team, Samuels served as vice president of marketing communications for AmSurg Corp. and director of marketing for Comdata. She also held creative and executive positions with the Buntin Group advertising and Dye, Van Mol & Lawrence Public Relations & Advertising, each among the area’s leading communications agencies in their respective areas.
Green was a recipient of the Nashville Business Journal’s inaugural Chief Information Officer Awards. He was one of three leaders recognized in the institution/nonprofit category.
“These men and women know more than a thing or two about IT,” said Nash. “Our inaugural set of Chief Information Officer Awards winners have made a name for themselves by not only understanding IT, but for using it to help propel their respective companies to the forefront of innovation.”
Green said the honor is one that is the result of a group effort.
“I am honored to be nominated by my peers as well as my IT team for this recognition and honor,” said Green. “Being named as a winner is a reflection of the hard work of my entire IT staff, whom I respect and trust. I am also pleased to be part of a university that is growing in significant ways that has an appreciation for technology-based solutions for business problems. This is a reflection of our executive leadership team who has a solid vision for the future.”
Green came to Lipscomb in May 2007, after serving as the chief operating officer for PROFORMANCE Inc. Prior to that, he served as a senior director of IT for Hewlett Packard overseeing the Americas Region Services IT organization. He has also served as a consulting practice director for Andersen Consulting, Digital Equipment Corporation and DSC Communications specializing in multimedia and broadband networking. He has worked in defense systems at the Oak Ridge National Labs and E-Systems, and was also a full-time instructor of computer science at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
“I find myself regularly thinking to myself that I sleep better at night knowing Mike is in charge of our IT department at Lipscomb,” said Danny Taylor, senior vice president for finance of administration and a former NBJ CFO honoree. “Not only is Mike a great CIO but a true gentleman and a man of high quality and integrity.”