BOARD OF VISITORS

Erskine Bowles

Erskine Bowles is President of the 16 campus University of North Carolina. Founder and former chairman and CEO of the investment banking firm Bowles Hollowell Connor & Co., Bowles also was a founder of Kitty Hawk Capital, a venture capital company, and Carousel Capital, a middle-market private equity company.  In 1993, Bowles was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as director of the Small Business Administration, and later served as deputy White House chief of staff (1994-95) and White House chief of staff (1996-98). As chief of staff, he helped negotiate the first balanced budget in a generation. As a member of the National Economic Council and National Security Council, he helped guide domestic and foreign policy. After he left the White House, he also served from 1999 to 2001 as a general partner of Forstmann Little, a New York-based private equity firm. He currently serves on the boards of General Motors, Morgan Stanley, Cousins Properties, and NC Mutual Life Insurance Co.  He helped found Dogwood Equity, chaired the Rural Prosperity Task Force, and served as a trustee of the Golden LEAF Foundation—three entities designed to bring economic development to rural North Carolina. Bowles also has served as vice chair of Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte and as a trustee of the Duke Endowment. Bowles helped to lead efforts to create an ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease) Center in Charlotte and served as the international president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In 2005, he was appointed United Nations deputy special envoy to 13 tsunami affected countries in Southeast Asia.

Dennis R. Glass

Dennis R. Glass is president and chief operating officer of Lincoln Financial Group. He serves as a director on the Board of Directors for Lincoln National Corporation. He also is president and serves on the Board at Lincoln Financial’s principal insurance subsidiaries.  As president, Glass is responsible for overseeing Lincoln Financial’s primary manufacturing and distribution businesses, including Employer Markets, Individual Markets, Delaware Investment Management, Lincoln Financial Distributors and Lincoln Financial Network. Glass chairs the Investment Committee for the insurance entities’ $66 billion general account portfolio.  Previously, Glass served as president and chief executive officer of Jefferson-Pilot Corporation, which merged with Lincoln Financial in 2006. Prior to joining Jefferson Pilot in 1993, Glass held executive-level finance and investment positions in the insurance and investment industries.  Glass serves on the Board and is chairman-elect of the American Council of Life Insurers and co-chairs the ACLI’s Committee on Principal-Based Reserving. Glass has served on other industry boards and has been active in numerous charitable and civic activities.

Alan Murray

Alan Murray is Assistant Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal and serves on the The Governing Council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and on the Board of Visitors at the University of North Carolina.  Alan Murray joined The Wall Street Journal in 1983 as a reporter, and became the Washington bureau chief in September 1993.  From 2002-2005, he was the Washington Bureau chief for the cable financial news channel CNBC and hosted the program "Capital Report."  As a UNC undergrad, Mr. Murray was a John Motley Morehead scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Murray began his journalism career as the business and economics editor of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. He later joined Congressional Quarterly as a reporter and became a reporter at the Japan Economic Journal, in Tokyo, on a Luce fellowship. Murray wrote (with Jeffrey Birnbaum) Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform(1987), awarded the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award 1998.  Mr. Murray is the recipient of a number of writing awards, including: Overseas Press Club awards (1991 & 1997); the Gerald Loeb Award and the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism (1992).

John Swofford

John Swofford is Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA.  He is a member of the NCAA Football Oversight Committee. In addition, he has served as a member of the NCAA Executive Committee and is a past chairman of the NCAA Division I Championship Committee.  He served as the Director of Athletics at the University of North Carolina from 1980 to 1997.

Alan C. Stephenson

Alan C. Stephenson is a partner in the Corporate Department of law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Stephenson’s practice is a diverse corporate practice that includes the representation of many companies in merger and acquisition transactions and joint ventures.  He joined Cravath in 1970 and became a partner in 1978. In October 1988, Stephenson left the Firm to join the investment banking firm of Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc., where he was a managing director advising on merger and acquisition transactions. In June 1992, he returned to Cravath as a partner. Mr. Stephenson currently serves on the External Advisory Board for the Undergraduate Honors Program at UNC-Chapel Hill.  He has received a number of professional recognitions, most recently in the following publications: Chambers USA 2007 – America's Leading Lawyers for Business; Practical Law Company – Which Lawyer? 2007; Best Lawyers in America – 2007; Who's Who Legal – The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2007; Lawdragon 500 – 2007 Leading Dealmaker.