Doug Ankney has been with Milliken and Company since receiving his mechanical engineering degree in 1988.  As global director of manufacturing for Milliken’s Floor Covering Division, he leads operations for the commercial, hospitality, residential and Walk-off Mat businesses.  Milliken Floor Covering has multiple operations in the United States, Europe and China.  He has received several awards for environmental, safety and operational excellence.  Milliken is the only company to receive a Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award and be awarded the TPM prize from the Japanese Institute of Plant Maintenance.  Milliken is a global leader in environmentally sustainable business practices and one of the few manufacturers in the world to claim a ‘Carbon-Negative Footprint’.  He is proud to work for a company listed as one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by Ethisphere Magazine and Fortune Magazines “100 Best Companies to Work for.”   He resides in Newnan, Georgia with his wife, Cara, and their four children, Conner, Carson, Christian and Cooper.
 

Andy Williams, a 1988 electrical engineering alumnus, is senior vice president of the Automotive and Power Regulation Group of ON Semiconductor and SCI LLC.  He oversees an operation that exceeds $435 million per year with more than 270 employees in over six countries.  He began his career with ON Semiconductor in 1999 as a technology introduction manager.  He also has served the company as product manager for the high voltage integrated circuit technology.  He was appointed director in 2002, vice president in 2005 and senior vice president in 2006.  He is proud that his businesses have grown annually despite industry fluctuations and the bursting of the “tech bubble” in 2000.  He began his career upon graduation with Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector.  He and his wife, Colleen Aver, are active members of St. Andrew the Apostle and St. Mary’s Catholic churches and philanthropic deeds associated with those entities.
 

A 1988 mechanical graduate, Nathan Wright is a member of the TPG Capital operations group and a partner in the company.  TPG is a large, global private equity firm with more than $30 billion of assets under management.  His primary responsibility is planning and execution of major operational transformation programs within acquired portfolio companies. He serves on the boards of two portfolio companies – Houston-based Kraton Polymers and Chicago-based Altivity Packaging. He was elected to the TPG partnership in 2007 – the first member of the operations group to be elected partner. 

After graduating from Rose-Hulman in 1988, Nathan joined Andersen Consulting.  In 1991, he left Andersen to start his own IT systems engineering firm.  He then attended the Tuck School at Dartmouth, earning an MBA in 1994.  After graduating from Tuck, he joined consulting firm Bain & Company in the Sydney office.  In 2000, he left Bain to join the Texas Pacific Group (now TPG Capital).

Career Achievement Award Recipients

1997 Rob Banerjee, '78
1997 Michael Huff, '78
1997 Jerry Matthews, '77
1997 Richard Stanley, '78
1998 Joseph Doner, '78
1998 Dennis Grannan, '79
1998 Erik Jansen, '78
1998 Jeffrey McCreary, '79
1998 Allen Shipp, '78
1998 Earl Stalter, '79
1999 Steve Darbin, '79
1999 Steve Gillman, '79
1999 Jim Huston, '80
1999 Doug Stearley, '79
2000 Joe Haniford, '80
2000 Tim Jackson, '79
2000 Chuck Sigman, '80
2000 Donald J.Umpleby, '80
2000 Eric Viscito, '80
2001 David Boodt, '81
2001 David Hannum, '81
2001 Steve H. Jenison, '81
2001 Steve Kennedy, '81
2002 Larry Alldredge, '82
2002 Curt Bilby, '81
2002 Ben Brian, '82
2002 Eric Mooney, '82
2003 Andy Meyer, '83
2003 Steve Nowak, '83
2003 Jeff Trang, '83
2003 Ralph Wagle, '83
2004 Mickey Hines, '84
2004 Joe Kunkel, '84
2004 Gregg Lowe, '84
2004 William Martini, '84

2005 Mark Federle, '85
2005 Jeff Gilbert, '85
2005 Morgan Tharp, '85
2005 Thomas VanderLaan, '85
2006 Richard Correll '86
2006 David Lakey, M.D. '86
2006 Steven Maier '86
2006 Robert Nordyke '86
2007 John Lueken ’87
2007 Darin Moody ’87
2007 Michael Radomsky ’87
2007 Gregory J. Smith ’87