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Leadership has been a key element in the success for three alumni from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s Class of 1988 that earned the Alumni Association’s prestigious Career Achievement Award on Saturday, April 26, in recognition of career accomplishments. The awards were presented during the college's Honors & Awards program, following a day of classroom presentations with current students and an information session for Rose-Hulman parents.
Honored were Doug Ankney, global director of manufacturing for Milliken and Company's floor covering division; Andy Williams, vice president and general manager at ON Semiconductor; and Nathan Wright, partner for TPG Capital Operations.
The Career Achievement Award honors alumni that have graduated in the last 20 years. Selection is based on their achievements within their communities and their professions.
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Doug Ankney |
Ankney, a mechanical engineering graduate, 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, and 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." Ankney has received several awards for environmental, safety and operational excellence. He resides in Newnan, Ga., with his wife, Cara, and their four children.
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Andy Williams |
Williams, an electrical engineering alumnus, oversees an operation that exceeds $435 million per year with more than 270 employees in over six countries. 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. Williams began his career upon graduation with Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector and joined 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 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.
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Nathan Wright |
Wright, a mechanical engineering graduate, plans and executes major operational transformation programs within acquired portfolio companies for TPG Capital Operations (formerly Texas Pacific Group), a large, global private equity firm with more than $30 billion of assets under management. He serves on the boards of two portfolio companies -- Houston-based Kraton Polymers and Chicago-based Altivity Packaging. He was the first member of TPG's operations group to be elected partner. After graduating from Rose-Hulman, Wright joined Andersen Consulting but left in 1991 to start his own information technology systems engineering firm. He earned a master's of business administration from Dartmouth College in
1994 and joined the Bain & Company consulting firm's Sydney office. He joined the Texas Pacific Group in 2000.
More information about the Career Achievement Award and past recipients can be found at: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/alumniaffairs/awards/careerachievement.htm.
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