PESC Members Elect Incumbents To Board Of Directors And Board Appoints Officers

[The following is a news release issued by the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC).]

PESC Members Elect Incumbents To Board Of Directors And Board Appoints Officers

SunGard Higher Education's Bill Hollowsky Appointed Chair of Board

Washington DC - At their Annual Membership Meeting held April 28, 2008 during the 5th Annual Conference on Technology and Standards, the Members of the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) elected incumbents Brian Allison of USA Funds representing the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs (NCHELP), Ron King of Nelnet Business Solutions, Francisco Valines of Florida International University representing that National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), Andy Wood of Oracle Corporation and newly elected Doug Falk of the National Student Clearinghouse to PESC's Board of Directors. All were elected for two years terms which run July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010.

Additionally, during its first meeting of the new fiscal year, the Board elected Bill Hollowsky of SunGard Higher Education as Chair of the Board of Directors, Francisco Valines as Vice Chair, Doug Falk as Treasurer and Rick Skeel of the University of Oklahoma representing the American Association of Collegiate Regitrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) as Secretary. The Board of Directors thanks Pete Nalli of Datatel for his service as Chair for the past three years.

The Board of Directors is now comprised as follows:

Chair
Bill Hollowsky, General Manager, SunGard Higher Education

Vice Chair
Francisco Valines, Director of Financial Aid, Florida International University, representing NASFAA

Treasurer
Doug Falk, Vice President and CIO, National Student Clearinghouse Secretary
Rick Skeel, Director of Academic Records, University of Oklahoma, representing AACRAO

At-Large

Brian Allison, Vice President, Technology and Industry Initiatives, USA Funds, representing NCHELP
Steve Biklen, President (retired), Citibank Student Loan Corp., representing the National Association of Student Loan Administrators (NASLA)
Barbara Clements, Chief Standards Officer, National Transcript Center
Ron King, Executive Vice President, Nelnet Business Solutions
David Moldoff, Founder and CEO, AcademyOne, Inc.
Pete Nalli, Datatel Inc.
Michael Sessa, Executive Director, PESC
Andy Wood, Development Director, Oracle Corporation

To ensure balance and even representation across the various sectors of higher education, the make-up of the PESC Board of Directors is designated by PESC's bylaws. The Board has overall authority to set PESC policies and provides direction and guidance for all activities of PESC, including conferences and development work conducted by the Steering Committee under the Standards Forum for Education.

For more information on PESC, please visit www.PESC.org.

About PESC
Established in 1997 and located in Washington, D.C., the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) is a non-profit, community-based, umbrella association of colleges and universities; professional and commercial organizations; data, software and service providers; and state and federal government agencies and serves as a standards-setting and development body. PESC's mission is to lead the establishment and adoption of data exchange standards in education. The goals of the mission are to enable the improvement of institutional performance and foster collaboration across educational communities in order to lower costs, improve service, and attain system interoperability.

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