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UTD School of Management Advisory Council Welcomes Three New Members

By Brynn Bagot Allday

UTD's School of Management welcomes three new members to its Advisory 
Council this spring, including Terry W. Price, Spencer Stuart Dallas; 
Anthony "Tony" E. Good, Alliance Data Systems; and Barbara Echols, Avaya 
Communications. These new members offer leadership and experience from 
diversified technology companies and will serve as liaisons for UTD within 
the business community. 

Terry W. Price, director of the Dallas office of Spencer Stuart, an 
international executive-search firm, brings to the council extensive 
general management, sales, marketing, and operations experience in both 
the computer and telecommunications industries. He is a core member of the 
firm's technology, communications, and media practice and focuses on the 
recruitment of CEOs, COOs, group and divisional general managers, and 
other senior executives. Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Mr. Price was 
senior vice president of Sensormatic Electronics Corporation and president 
of its Worldwide Commercial/Industrial Division. He led his division from 
startup in 1991 to solid operation, recording more than three hundred 
million dollars in revenues within six years. Before joining Sensormatic, 
Mr. Price was president and chief executive officer of AmeriSystems, a 
telecommunications service provider headquartered in Dallas.

His career began at IBM, where he earned a rapid succession of promotions 
in a variety of sales and marketing assignments. Following nearly ten 
years with IBM, he held executive positions at United Telecommunications, 
now Sprint Corporation, and ITT Corporation.

Tony E. Good is vice president of corporate communications at Alliance 
Data Systems, a leading provider of transaction services, credit services, 
and marketing services assisting retail, petroleum, utility, and financial 
services companies in managing critical interactions between them and 
their customers. Alliance Data Systems also is one of the School's newest 
Strategic Partners.

Mr. Good has spent the last two decades helping organizations become more 
effective in their communications with internal and external stakeholders. 
He has developed comprehensive communications strategies for the launch of 
new products, long-range corporate planning, and short-term issues. His 
areas of emphasis include devising communications strategies, media 
relations, crisis communications, financial communications, speech 
writing, branding, and internal communications. Mr. Good has led the 
communications efforts for numerous high-profile activities, such as EDS's 
acquisition of A.T. Kearney (1995) and EDS's split from General Motors 
(1996), and the initial public offering of Alliance Data Systems stock in 
2001.

Barbara Echols serves as director of outsourcing services for the 
Management Services Organization of Avaya Communication, a provider of 
enterprise communications - including secure network infrastructures and 
voice and data applications - for businesses worldwide. 

Mrs. Echols has been involved in business outsourcing since 1989 when she 
joined Tigon, an Ameritech company providing service bureau voice 
messaging and dedicated voice-messaging networks for large multinational 
customers. She joined Avaya through the acquisition of Octel and has also 
held leadership roles in operations and customer service as well as 
implementation and project management. Other past experience includes 
sales, contract management, and sales support focused on both domestic and 
international customers. Before she moved to the telecommunications 
industry, her early career was in the oil and gas business.